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Today's Poll!‘Spiked’ lemonade claim lands students in hot water
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Two Jefferson City middle school students told classmates last week they had lemonade with alcohol in it. Four students drank the mix, which turned out to have no alcohol.
All of them may have been suspended for the incident, although federal privacy laws prevent Jefferson City Public Schools spokesman David Luther from identifying the students or being specific about any punishment they might have received.
The incident happened about 8:15 a.m. last Tuesday at Thomas Jefferson Middle School.
An unidentified student who witnessed the incident — where two eighth-graders told others they had the mixed drink — reported it to a principal, who then launched an immediate investigation.
Luther said Monday: “Our investigation and the school resource officer’s investigation determined that there was no alcohol.”
However, he said, the students still could be subject to discipline “based on the district’s code of conduct, under Drugs/Alcohol.”
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carolyn 2 years, 4 months ago
The paper says they used Margarita Mix. Shouldnt these kids just be in trouble for lying instead of drug policy? This takes me back to when one of my kids got in trouble with the drug policy for using sweet breath at school. Geez. It was fifth grade. How could Margarita Mix be any more of an over the counter substitute for alcohol, than Lemonade Mix? What am i missing here? Someone lied and implied it was spiked, but no one drank alcohol. It looks like lying and bad judgement on the part of those that drank it. But violating drug/alcohol policy? NO.
misshoneybee 2 years, 4 months ago
Perhaps a few of the kids that drank the mixture THOUGHT that it was spiked. If they have never had non alcoholic Margarita Mix or any kind of alcohol, for that matter, how could they not know for sure if it was spiked or not? It may very well have tasted spiked to them. These are middle school kids that are in question here, and not all kids this age are 'seasoned veterans' of the party crowd. Not every kid this age knows the taste of booze, so maybe the intent of some of the students was not to lie. They were questioned about it and may have truly thought they were drinking alcohol.
nunyabidness 2 years, 4 months ago
This is completely ridiculous. What are they suspended for again? I don't think I could go to school nowadays.
One day a friend and I decided to mess with our bus driver back in the early nineties. We colored the end of some paper brown, cut it into strips, rolled them into cylinders, and inserted red hots into the end not colored brown. Every once in a while, when the bus driver was looking, we'd pop up and take an imaginary drag off our imaginary cigarettes. Of course the bus driver didn't know they weren't real and the principal was waiting on us when we got to school that morning. We showed him the fake smokes and everybody had a good laugh. Today I probably would have been expelled for promoting the idea that anyone ever has or ever will smoke tobacco. It's a shame.
wcywing 2 years, 4 months ago
the authorities don't have a since of humor like they use to. i though you had to use Drugs/Alcohol to break the rule...times are changing.
JMO 2 years, 4 months ago
The JCPS code of conduct not only applies to alcohol and controlled substances, but "counterfit" substances. In other words, drugs and alcohol aren't allowed, nor can a kid pretend something is a drug or alcohol. Can't have a baggie of sugar and pretend its cocaine, can't have a bottle of water and represent it to be vodka. Seems a bit much, but then selling that baggie of sugar, representing it to be cocaine, is a felony, so that's where this comes from. While I admit to having taken the real thing to school in my youth, times are changing. Personally, hypocritical or not, I'd be kicking my kid's behind for being involved. And as I DO have a JCHS student, I'll be having a little talk with him about this very thing.
3blindmice 2 years, 4 months ago
based on this conduct if some kid runs a lemonade stand they could have liquer control called on them
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