We The People, Sheriffs, and Larry Klayman,
Even when the testing
came back NEGATIVE on the marijuana the ZERO TOLERANCE is still in
effect: "For one, field tests of the leaf, identified as marijuana by
school officials and the county sheriff’s office, came back negative
three times."
Even when: "Having no evidence to stand on, the
county prosecutor dropped the case against R.M.B.; however, he would
still have to follow the school’s orders to attend the alternative
school, apart from his peers friends and extra-cirricular activities."
so the school stands that you are GUILTY on an assumption!
All the Schools have to do is make an ACCUSATION and the student is done with!!!
11-year-old Suspended For A Year After School Mistakes Ordinary Leaf for Marijuana
http://www.infowars.com/6th-grader-suspended-for-a-year-after-school-mistakes-ordinary-leaf-for-marijuana/ Sixth grader falls victim to state's stringent zero tolerance laws
by Adan Salazar | Infowars.com |
March 16, 2015 A
Virginia couple is suing their son’s middle school after he was wrongly
accused of possessing marijuana, a false allegation that set off a
chain of events that ultimately degraded the student’s mental
well-being.
Parents Linda and Bruce Bays have a federal lawsuit
pending against the Bedford County Schools and the Bedford County
Sheriff’s Office for wrongfully pinning a marijuana charge on their son,
a participant of the school’s gifted-and-talented program.
They
aren’t sure how a lighter and a leaf ended up in their 11-year-old’s
backpack, but they’re positive the extent of his punishment doesn’t fit
the alleged crime.
For one, field tests of the leaf, identified
as marijuana by school officials and the county sheriff’s office, came
back negative three times.
“Essentially they kicked him out of
school for something they couldn’t prove he did,” the family’s lawyer
Melvin Williams says, commenting on the boy’s 364-day suspension.
Back on
September 22,
the Bays’ son, identified as R.M.B. in court documents, was summoned to
the principal’s office where he was interrogated and asked to empty the
contents of his backpack.
Assistant Principal Brian Wilson began
by asking “if he had anything he shouldn’t have. He said, ‘No,’”
according to a report from The Roanoke Times.
The principal then opened a zipper on the front of the boy’s bag that revealed a lighter and a leaf.
R.M.B.’s
parents were told their son was showing off the items to other students
in class and inside a bathroom claiming the leaf to be marijuana, which
the student denies.
School officials, however, didn’t hesitate
to exercise the full authority of Virginia’s zero-tolerance laws, moving
to suspend the student for a year.
The Bays’ lawsuit also names the school’s resource officer, Deputy M.M. Calhoun, who issued a false testimony before a judge.
“The
field test came back not inconclusive, but negative,” says Williams,
adding, “Yet she went to a magistrate and swore he possessed marijuana
at school.”
Despite the absence of evidence, R.M.B. was ordered to attend an alternative school full of problem children and ne’er-do-wells.
Additionally,
R.M.B. would be forced to endure bag searches upon entering and leaving
the school each day, which didn’t sit well with his parents, who got
the school to agree to allow him to take homeschool classes following a
strictly timed regimen.
The Bays say the events left their son worse for wear, and he began to fall into an emotional slump.
“[He]
just broke down and said his life was over. He would never be able to
get into college; he would never be able to get a job,” his mother
described.
After the school suspected R.M.B. of having substance
abuse problems, he was ordered to see a psychiatrist for an evaluation,
who found him to be suffering from panic attacks and depression.
Having
no evidence to stand on, the county prosecutor dropped the case against
R.M.B.; however, he would still have to follow the school’s orders to
attend the alternative school, apart from his peers friends and
extra-cirricular activities.
The school cites the state’s
rigorous zero-tolerance laws as justification for the suspension, which
makes no distinction between actual drugs and “lookalike,” or
“imitation” drugs.
But the Bays’ lawyer says the school doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on.
“If
the school argues now that they were justified in suspending him for
possession of lookalike marijuana, that’s disingenuous because they’ve
never argued that prior to the suit being filed,” he says.
Given
the school’s rush to punish the boy, despite an utter lack of evidence,
the Bays’ case is emblematic of the inherent problems with irrational
zero tolerance policies and the overarching move to transform public
schools into something more similar to prisons.
R.M.B. is still
under probation until this September, but his parents vow to keep up the
fight until their son is exonerated of any wrongdoing.
Dan