Originally posted by vorticon
we did have drug dogs come through, and "random" (the high schools were small enough that the teachers knew who did what) locker checks, but only 1 or 2 people ever got caught...everyone just kept there drugs in a their or a friends car.
That just reminded me of a school board meeting I attended once. I was there in support of a friend`s daughter who had just been suspended. She was a senior and was dating a boy who had graduated earlier. She brought his truck to school after lunch. The drug dog team came in and did their thing. In the parking lot , in the truck, they found two empty beer cans. Suspended. Ridiculous.
In no uncertain terms, I brought a few things to their attention. Such as two weeks before when the dog team came in and found about a half a pound of pot in one boys locker. No suspension. Their excuse was that since it was in a locker it could not be proven that it was his.
I brought up my off the wall theory that maybe it was because the raid was conducted on Thursday and Friday was football night and the boy was a star football player. Imagine that.
Another little issue came up when one member of the board spoke her piece to me about drug use and how it was being handled by the school and school board members. Very touching. When she was through I told her if she wished to debate the use of drugs and drug sales with me in front of the other members of the board I would be more than happy to get into this. I also mentioned I might bring up the practice of an unnamed store owner who was known to be dealing in cocaine. She sat down and never said another word. She and her husband owned the store in question.
The last issue I brought up was who scheduled the the timing and schedule for the drug dog teams visits. I was assured that it was completely random by a few of the board members. I asked if they were certain of this. The answer was absolutely. I then asked the super if that was correct and he guaranteed me that no school teachers, personal, administration or employees of the school knew when the team was coming. I asked one more time if everyone was certain of this and got an all around "Yes" in response.
So...........I then had to bring up the question that if nobody knew when they were coming, if anyone besides myself found it strange that one particular teacher had left one to two hours before the team arrived on the last six visits. It seemed that I was the only one aware of this.
Got the suspension lifted for the terrible "empty beer can girl".
