High School Punishes Student for Doing the Right Thing

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...hes-honors-student-for-doing-the-right-thing/

When Erin Cox, a high school honors student and captain of her volleyball team, got a phone call from a friend in trouble, she didn’t hesitate.


Her friend was drunk at a party earlier this month and asked Cox to take her home. Cox agreed, and went to pick up her friend.

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But moments after Cox got there, police arrived at the party as well. They busted several kids for underage possession of alcohol and warned others — including Cox — that they would be summoned to court for drinking, the Herald reported.


Even though Cox wasn’t drinking and wasn’t in possession of alcohol — and despite a police officer vouching for her sobriety in writing — that wasn’t good enough for North Andover High School.


Officials there told Cox that she violated the district’s zero-tolerance policy against alcohol and drug use, Boston’s WBZ-TV reported. So the 17-year-old senior was demoted from her captain’s position on the volleyball team and suspended for five games.


“If a kid asks for help from a friend, you don’t want that kid to say ‘I’m sorry I can’t help you. I might end up in trouble at school,’” attorney Wendy Murphy, who is trying to help the Cox family get the school’s decision reversed, told WBZ.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Stupid rules and more stupid rules.

 

[Defnestor]

At least they didn't mandate her taking the morning-after pill for the sex the kids were having upstairs.

 

[R. Johnson]

You joke, but there will come a day...

 

[TwoForFlinching]

That's terrible. Someone deserves to lose a job over that one.

 

[caojyn]

About as stupid as the social host ordinance

 

[EhlerDave]

"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions." Mike Krzyzewski

 

[Glocktogo]

So this happened in MA? Why am I not surprised?

 

[cjjtulsa]

And she may have saved her friend's life, as well as the life/lives of others on the road. Way to back up the "if you drink, don't drive" rhetoric. Sounds like a good kid, and one that's a whole lot smarter than the administration there.

 

[Fyrtwuck]

Guilt by association.