teenager's reputation

[bekyy]

What is the name of your state? Texas

This happened 2 years ago, but I was just wanting to know if I would have had a case.

My son is 16, when he was in the eighth grade the school press charges on him for giving a team-mate an ibuprofin for a headache.

The next year he went into highschool. His girlfriend's mom went to visit the school counselor to see how her daughter was doing in school.
The counselor told the girl's mom that my son was a "drug dealer", of course the girl had to break up with him, and his reputation at school was ruined.
I feel this was very wrong of the counselor, the charges were not for "dealing drugs".

 

[d8ddysgirl]

I am going to bank it was more than ibuprofin. How did the school even know your son gave this kid an aspirin? Something must have happened to this kid from whatever your son gave him.

Same thing happened here except the kid was handing out her dad's Vikadin to the soccer team. School responded with you should of just stuck with Aspirin, if you were handing that out nothing would of happened.

I am having a hard time believing it was just ibuprofin. And if it was then he was giving illegal drugs to another student. Did the kid pay for the aspirin? Did your son have a bad rep before the aspirin situation?

Things dont add up here so I would not run down to the courthouse and file anything.

 

[BelizeBreeze]

In this case, it matters not whether it was Ibuprofen or Crack. The school counselor had no legal right to inform anyone except law enforcement of the boy's past.

However, since you've waited two years the SOL has likely run on filing anything and even if you did file a complaint with the school board, with so much time passing, it would likely be ignored.

The time to have acted would have been immediately.

 

[olgethorpe]

At least here in ohio...

Here in Ohio it is against the law for anyone other than the school nurse to give any student medications of any kind on school property. By law, one kid handing another an vitamin pill gets him labeled as a drug pusher. Another example of over reacting to a problem. The reasoning goes that no one has the time to analyse whats in the pill...and no one has the medical records of the kid on hand...so its better that he doesn't get a pill at all.

 

[d8ddysgirl]

Which goes back to my original question how did anyone know what was going on with giving this kid anything? Did someone see him slip him something that looked suspicious? Did he faint? PLease put that piece of the puzzle together and maybe it would seem to fit a little better?

 

[bekyy]

all charges were dropped

It was really Ibuprofin. Another kid saw him giving it to his friend, and reported to the office he had "pills", the whole thing got thrown out, and we never went to court. That's why I was blown away by the counselor telling someone else he was a "drug dealer". The young man who the ibuprofin was given had no ill effects at all. The charge was "distribution of a dangerous substance". I aggree he shouldn't have given it to anyone, because of potential allergies ect... my gripe isn't with him getting in trouble for giving medicine to another kid. My gripe is a year later the counselor doing what she did.

 

[cmorris]

As my mother is a counselor in a public school, I feel that I know this area very well. It violates ethical behavior to mention anything about another student to anyone else. The only exceptions are if a student threatens to hurt himself or others. That's it. Even if he admitted to being a drug dealer, the counselor has no right to do so. This ethical issue is legally binding. However, I do not know the SOL