School Claims Teen's Writing About Marijuana Use Is 'Drug Possession'

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by Tim Cushing

The latest illegal high to hit high schools? Writing about drug use.

Last May, a teenager was punished with a lengthy suspension after teachers discovered her folder which contained stories with references to marijuana use. Her father is now speaking out and appealing the school’s decision.

Tom Grayhorse, father of Krystal Grayhorse, told Ozarks First that he was called by Buffalo High School’s assistant principal after staff found Krystal’s folder containing the stories at the school and were “alarmed by the contents of the notebook.”

“She wrote about making out with a boy- well, you know, she’s a teenager- and also about having some pot then eating it and swallowing it at the school,” said Tom Grayhorse.

So, a student's personal notebook -- not one belonging to the school or any particular class -- was left behind and read by a member of school administration, who then "freaked out" and brought it to the attention of school officials.

Grayhorse can only imagine what was actually written by his daughter because the school has refused to provide him with copies of the objectionable writing.

He went to the school for a meeting but was told he couldn't see the notebook because it's considered evidence, and that his daughter would be suspended for ten days.

Yes, the school went full cop on him, claiming the evidence was so secret it couldn't even be seen by the legal guardian of the minor involved. The ten-day suspension has now been extended until January 2015, thanks to its "zero tolerance" drug policies, even though no actual drugs were involved. District Superintendent Robin Ritchie offered this deferral to policy by way of "explanation."

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[get the red out]

1. Disgusting!

Schools are training people up to be good, fearful little robots.

If the young lady's father doesn't have a right to her notebook, NO ONE DOES! They are interfering with his parental rights and denying his daughter an education.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Find a pro bono lawyer and demand the return of personal property.

The police have the right to confiscate and keep 'evidence' of crimes. Schools do not. They are not part of the legal system.

[hifiguy]

4. Damn straight.

Any ACLU lawyer will be licking his/her chops to take this case.

[Trillo]

3. This could just be fantasy.

Prince charming, so to say, "making out with...." Same with anything else in the journal. This kind of writing isn't always clear to third parties the same way it is to the author. You write it with the expectation that its only for your own eyes. If one starts writing out all the details, it becomes a tome, and too time consuming, so why bother for "clear writing?" It only needs to be understood by her.

[el_bryanto]

5. Holy crap! I write about money all the time - am I really a bazillionaire? nt

[hifiguy]

6. Or maybe a counterfeiter?

Better watch it.

[newfie11]

7. So much for free speech nt

[ck4829]

8. What next? Brain scanners to make sure nobody is even thinking about drugs?

[lonestarnot]

9. So that's why they call school administrators such smart people.

There goes some more of someone's hard earned and paid tax dollars.