sons rights

[cdzipby]

What is the name of your state? Illinois

My son was sent to the principals office on Friday due to the fact that his teachers THOUGHT he smelled like dope, and that his eyes were puffy and red. They searched his locker and him and then called me. It does not matter to the school that he passed a drug test on the same day, according to the principal the doctor ones are not the same!!! I have talked to the school and told them they owe my son an apology for being wrong, they don't see it that way. And now my son and his twin sister are the ones stuck defending him at school and who is going to rectify that? If anyone knows Illinois law please let me know.

 

[stealth2]

Not a lawyer, but it would seem to me that if he had a drug test at a doctor's office, someone besides the school had reason to believe there was drug use. I think the school also has a lot of leeway in this sort of thing - when your child is in their care, they are acting in your place as parents... which gives them a whole lot of latitude.

 

[cdzipby]

sons right

I had him do the drug test and it was negative, according to the school principal the next day when I informed him of this he told me that the test done in the doctors office don't check for everything!!
I knew my son would pass because I drove him to school that morning, he looked tired, but he did not smell like pot.
I did find out that the school nurse should have seen him 1st and she never saw him, I also found out that he was allowed to have the school call me, but the school did not inform him of that.
Both of my kids know now, I printed out a packet of rights for minors so if this happens again they know what to do. I am just upset how they dealt with him, and I feel the school owes him an apology, we teach our kids to apologize when they make a mistake, this should be no different.

 

[stealth2]

Since you were not with him from the time you dropped him off until he was pulled from class, you have no way really of knowing what he may or may not have smelled like at that point. *Or* whether or not he might have smoked in between. The fact that you took him for a drug test indicates to me that this has, in fact, been an problem with your son. In which case your, and his, expectations regarding his treatment by school officials may need to be adjusted. Did you apologize to him for taking him for the drug test at the doctor's? Just curious.

 

[cdzipby]

He offered to take one because he knew he was clean. Also, at his school in the morning the kids go straight in there is no outside time, I dropped him off at 7:50 and class starts at 8:00, he was sent downstairs at 8:45 and the only place he was in was his class room, it was varified with his teacher, he did not go to the bathroom or anywhere else.
There conclusion was that the kid he was standing with MIGHT have smoked it before school and the smell was passed on to my son, but the other kid had a drug test done as well and it was negative.
I am not a mother who lives with blinders on, if there is a problem the it will be addressed and the school knows this about me.