Crying teen suspended for bloodshot eyes after HS officials "smell pot"

[KurtNYC]

This is horrible. His father murdered and his High School suspends him due to their own stupid paranoia about pot. No apologies offered:

Sometimes that smell a person thinks is the lingering scent of marijuana is actually just the shit they’ve got where their brain should be. Until representatives of Byron Nelson High in Denton County, Texas can offer a better explanation, that will have to do toward explaining why 16-year-old Kyler Robertson was handed an otherwise unmerited suspension.

Robertson arrived to school with blood-shot, watery eyes. School officials insist he stank of pot and promptly suspended him, letting him know he’d have to enroll at an “alternative school.” But Kyler tested negative for drugs. His watery eyes, more logically, could be attributed to the student’s grief over the murder of his dad, who was stabbed to death a few days earlier.

On learning the teen was clean, the school said Kyler could return to class, but insisted the family file an official complaint to have the suspension removed from his file.

http://www.montrealmirror.com/wp/2010/09/16/news/man-bites-dog-high-on-dumb/

More detail at:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=215811

[saltpoint]

1. I would like to see the parents of that high school

withhold all school fees -- every goddam penny -- until the school humbly offers a sincere and official public apology for its spectacularly poor judgment and reinstates the suspension in-house.

[KurtNYC]

2. the school is forcing these parents to go to the legal system

now watch them complain when they get sued. All they had to do was apologize. But noooooooooo...

[msanthrope]

3. Not the 'legal system'--an official complaint through the

educational system.

Which is annoying paperwork, but think about it this way---school officials SHOULD have to go through a process in order to place and remove serious stuff from a kid's file.

So she should do the paperwork--and show up at the next school board meeting and read them the riot act. And DEMAND they follow their own procedure.

[izquierdista]

4. Suing schools is fun

You can call the teacher, the counselors, the principal, and all the various administrators, and never, ever will your phone calls be returned. But if you trot down to the courthouse and file a complaint and have it served, it magically repairs the phone! Not only that, they become as contrite as a dog being yelled at for crapping on the carpet.

[KurtNYC]

5. it shouldn't come to that but someone needs to put the humanity

back into that bureaucracy. It can't un-do what is done but perhaps it would make other schools more cautious in their paranoid crusade.

[Evasporque]

6. ZERO TOLERANCE for compassion in Texas...

That kid is lucky he wasn't arrested and sent to prison as an adult for life.

[CanonRay]

7. How about a nice million dollar lawsuit

to go with that formal complaint. Assholes.