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Greenville School Board Monday suspended a 16-year-old student for 30 days for letting another student store prescription drugs in her locker.
http://www.sharonherald.com/local/lo...016221434.html Greenville School Board Monday suspended a 16-year-old student for 30 days for letting another student store prescription drugs in her locker. Daniel Wallace, the school district's solicitor, said Tuesday the board held a public hearing during the board's regular meeting and determined sophomore Jamie Rickert violated the district's drug policy because she didn't come forward about the drugs. Jamie testified during the hearing that she was assigned a locker she let another girl share to store books for classes near the locker. The other girl, whose name Wallace said isn't public information, brought in a bottle of Concerta, a drug used to treat her attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and kept it in Jamie's locker, Wallace said. The girl reported to school officials Dec. 15 the bottle was missing from Jamie's locker. High school principals spoke to Jamie Dec. 18, who admitted she knew the bottle was in her locker but didn't know what happened to the bottle. The district's drug policy says students who need to take prescription medicine during the school day must leave the bottle in the nurse's office or allow a parent to administer the drug, Wallace said. The girl who brought the bottle chose to voluntarily leave the school district and enroll in Keystone Education Center, West Salem Township, Wallace said. She could have also chosen to face a hearing before the school board. Reached by phone Tuesday afternoon, Jamie said there was no lock on her locker and she didn't know what was in the bottle, which is still missing. She confirmed she knew the bottle was in her locker but didn't think about the consequences she could face if school officials found out a bottle with prescription drugs was in her locker. Jamie chose to have the hearing because she said she doesn't think it's fair she got in trouble for drugs that didn't belong to her. She also didn't want to leave the school district or be home-schooled during her suspension. Jamie's father Tom Rickert said Jamie has never been in trouble at school and gets good grades, but the 30-day suspension is better than one of the board's other options to expel her for the rest of the school year. Rickert urged other parents to become familiar with their school district's policies in case their child is accused of a violation, mainly because teenagers sometimes don't consider the consequences of their actions. "I feel that when stuff like this happens to a kid, the parents need to look into the rights of their own kid. Too many parents bow down to the school," Rickert said. |
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