Boy Took Crack To Show-And-Tell

[proud2BlibKansan]

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Police said a Shreveport woman has been arrested after her first-grade son brought a rock of crack cocaine to school for show-and-tell.

Police were especially disturbed by the child's understanding of crack cocaine. They said he seemed so accustomed to being around the highly addictive drug that he thought there was nothing wrong with bringing it to school.

Police Chief Mike VanSant said the child told police he had seen other family members smoking the drug and found the rock in his mother's car.

Police did not release the name of the school, saying they were still investigating.

Meanwhile, 20-year-old Lachristie Thomas was arrested on a charge of improper child supervision, a misdemeanor. The 6-year-old will be placed in foster care.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/11288230/detail.html?taf=no

[Horse with no Name]

1. Nice.

I wonder how much poverty affects this story though.
His mother is 20 and the child is 6. She had a baby at age 14.
Very sad.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. We have too many 14 year olds having babies

Yes it is very sad.

[SlowDownFast]

2. Poor kid. n/t

[stirlingsliver]

15. Poor KIDS

Both the 6-year-old and the mother are kids.

Both were born into lives of poverty.

I feel compassion for both of them.

I understand the necessity of putting the 6-year-old into child services, but it still breaks my heart that the mother is losing her child.

Perhaps she will be able to get the help she needs, so that one day she will be able to be reunited with her child.

[EFerrari]

3. My kid took sugar to school and told his friends it was coke.

The principal called the police, then he called me at school and said he'd filed a report.

My son had been watching "Cops" the night before. He was eight.

lol

[Serendipitous]

4. How long ago was that?

There was a similar situation at my son's old school (kid was 10 at the time) with spices passed off as "pot". They threw the proverbial book at the kid and the family.

It was quite sad.

I hope you got through it with fewer scars than this family did.

[EFerrari]

5. It 1988 or so. And to top it off, my friend produced the episode

of "Cops" that Nick watched while I was busy doing my homework.

There was no fallout at all except I had to go pick my son up early that day. Then we had The Talk about drugs and about scaring people to get attention. Oh, and I missed my first chance to read in public but I doubt the public suffered much from that.

[Serendipitous]

6. I asked because the whole "ZERO tolerance" bullshit was thrown as

the "reason" why the consequences were so harsh. It's ridiculous. Kids do some seriously stupid shit sometimes... but to treat them like hardened criminals so young breeds some contempt and hatred.

Glad it worked out in the end!

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Many years ago, one of my 4th grade students

came to me one day first thing in the morning and whispered that he needed to talk to me privately. So I took him out in the hall and he said "These aren't my pants". I said "What do you mean?" He repeated about the pants not being his. I was irritated that the kid had taken me out of class to tell me he had someone else's pants on! Fortunately I didn't say anything and waited. The kid finally looked me in the eye and said "They are my brother's. There is something in the pocket."

Big brother had stuffed a great big bud of pot in the pocket!! By the time the kid pulled it out of his pocket, he was in tears. He just knew he was in major trouble.

Fortunately this was before zero tolerance and I took the bud and disposed of it. When the kid told me his brother was going to beat him up, I called and talked to Mom. And that was the end of it.

Today, if I handled this situation the same way I did then, I would lose my job.

[EFerrari]

10. And the kids get caught in the middle.

:(

[MountainLaurel]

11. He should meet my brother, who did something similar

He was in the 4th grade when he took tobacco and rolling papers to school and made "joints." He then sold them to his classmates for $1 a piece. The principal called my mom laughing her ass off, telling Mom she wasn't sure if she should punish him or reward him for his entrepreneurship. The really funny part though, is that if he'd taken the wrong baggie out of my parents' bedroom, there could have been a world of trouble.

[EFerrari]

13. Yikes! Well, I was in grad school when our incident happened

and was lucky to be able to feed everybody and get all my work done, let alone buy drugs and sit around using them.

[MountainLaurel]

17. Well, in my dad's case

It was homegrown.

This would have been around 1983 or so. Today, he probably would have been sent to the state school until he was 18.

[TahitiNut]

12. I hope it was powdered sugar.

After all, granulated sugar wouldn't be believable. That'd hardly be "educational." :silly:

[JNelson6563]

7. Mother of 6 year old is 20?

Oh boy.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. That was my first thought too. *sad shake of head*

[TahitiNut]

16. If God had intended her to be a mother, He'd have given her ovaries.

:silly: :crazy: :eyes:

Heaven forbid she'd get an abortion. :grr: