This was just AWFUL!

[EveWasFramed]

What kind of message does this send?
Thoughts?



North Andover High Punishes Teen For Giving Drunken Pal Ride Home From Party

(read the article or watch the video here)
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/10/...-for-giving-drunken-pal-ride-home-from-party/

Short version:


Two weeks ago, Erin received a call from a friend at a party who was too drunk to drive. Erin drove to Boxford after work to pick up her friend. Moments after she arrived, the cops arrived too and busted several kids for underage possession of alcohol.

A North Andover High School honor student, Erin was cleared by police, who agreed she had not been drinking and was not in possession of alcohol. But Andover High told Erin she was in violation of the district’s zero tolerance policy against alcohol and drug use. In the middle of her senior year, Erin was demoted from captain of the volleyball team and told she would be suspended from playing for five games.

 

[Alienated]

It's the same as suspending little 6 year old kid's for biting there pop tart in the shape of a gun at school.
And dozens of other ridiculous authoritarian and lack of reason, actions by people in charge.

Look at you signature : It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

 

[Rosebolt]

Yep. Nothing new here, awful indeed, of course.

 

[ladyforsaken]

Meh. Screwed up.

 

[jzinsky]

I can see that going well in a court

 

[Cavey]

Another one of those moments when common sense is thrown out of the window... next time just get steaming drunk, you're going to get punished either way.

 

[constant stranger]

Altogether too many regulations enforced 'to the letter of the law' make everyone a suspect and too many people in violation of something, even without criminal intent on their part. The young lady has a record now, not criminal exactly, but still a black mark and through no wrongdoing on her part.