Texas for you...pretty ridiculous.
California may be considering the full legalization of marijuana, but in Texas, a student was recently suspended from school for having red eyes. In Trophy Club, Texas, 16-year-old Kyler Robertson chose to attend classes just two days after his father was stabbed to death. His mother had urged the grief-stricken boy to stay home, according to a report on the local Fox News station, but Kyler said he wanted the comfort of his friends.
Administrators at Byron Nelson High School didn?t let the boy stay on campus for long. Because of his irritated eyes and, they claimed, the smell of marijuana on his clothes, school officials said they suspected Kyler of using marijuana and sent him home Tuesday with a three-day suspension. The school said it would lift the suspension within two hours if Kyler passed a drug test ? which he did. (More on Healthland: Find out why some state sheriffs want to know what drugs you?re taking)
Kyler?s mother says she had notified school officials and her son?s teachers about her husband?s murder.
Drug use at school can certainly cause problems? but zero-tolerance policies like Byron Nelson?s aren?t the solution. They tend to be ineffective? or even counterproductive. Research shows that students who feel closely connected to a school community are less likely to have drug problems, and zero-tolerance policies have been found to reduce school connectedness.
Worse, Byron Nelson?s policy seems to controvert the notion of innocent until proven guilty ? and the idea that people should be treated with common sense and decency. (One has to wonder, too, whether it?s worth sullying a student?s academic record because he might have smoked pot two days after his father was stabbed to death.)
If the school had been concerned for his safety, it seems to me that a trip to the hospital would have been their best bet. If his emotional health were the problem, being sent to a school counselor?s office might be advised. Or maybe someone could have given the kid a hug and the chance to talk to a trusted teacher.
The next Trophy Club kid who loses a parent probably won?t be seeking solace at school, but at least the local stoners won?t reject him for showing normal signs of sadness.
Read more: Who’s High? A School Suspends a Student for Bloodshot Eyes – TIME Healthland
Lets see,,,,Eyes bloodshot,,,clothes smell like pot,,,hmmmm, could be, yeah, id say hes been smoking some weed. Sounds like proper procedure to me, send him home. In todays politically correct environment I guess a blood test should have been done and then wait a 3 days then send him home, only to have the test double checked, then have a separate expert read the results.
yeah, I see nothing wrong with this.
You pass the drug test, suspension is lifted.
No harm done.
"Texas for you" Is the headline of this? Texas is a lot bigger than one school asshat.
I see nothing wrong either. They gave him the chance to prove em wrong. He did they corrected the situation.
GO VOLS
ahh this was just posted because it was somebody smoking pot that got in trouble, R13 wants us to take up for the kid due to the circumstances, it doesnt matter what happened the kid shouldnt have been smoking pot and going to school. UNTIL its legalized people are going to get in trouble for it.
Cant we all just get along?
Guess you didn't read it, he didn't smoke pot, the drug test came back negative. I'm "taking up for the kid" because he did nothing wrong and the school acted like idiots. I could guarentee the school knew that his dad had been murdered, yet couldn't put two and two together to think maybe the red-eyes came from the kid crying/not sleeping because he dad had been stabbed to death 2 days before - yeah I know they "claimed" they smelled weed on him, which was probably just bull.Originally Posted by Rocky
Even if the kid had been, which he wasn't, no one with a brain should care...he just lost one of his parents, ****. They harassed the kid with this bull**** "no tolerance" junk and it backfired on them, a suspension could have had long effects on the kids academic career, as if he didn't have it hard enough.
And yes, I say Texas because they breed stories like this, hell they changed entire history books to a whacked conservative view on it leaving out entire parts of history/rewording it to fit with what they want..that was just last year I believe.
Texas has a w.horehouse in it.
Wow Im suprised a pot advocate isnt aware that you can smoke pot and pass a drug test.
GO VOLS
Wait 30 years (I know it sucks) but they'll all be dead and we wont have to listen to stuff like this.
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1) That's limited to a urine test and 2) it takes awhile to flush out of your system, the kid took the test with an hour or so of the suspension. Ever cross your mind that he just didn't smoke pot? The school was just stupid and harrassed the kid, they're the ones that's wrong with this country.
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