High School athlete suspended for driving to pick up drunk friend

• Fly4Fun

  

  This is just another instance of a school taking a no tolerance policy and screwing up.
  
  A girl drove to a party to pick up a friend after getting a call from a drunk friend to drive her home. Police were there as she arrived. An officer even noted and vouched for sobriety.
  
  But the school suspends her as they are

  "trying to take a very serious and principled stand regarding alcohol. And we all get that. Teen drinking is a serious problem." [\quote]
  
  Basically they would have preferred if she allowed her friend to drive drunk instead of "involving" herself with the dangers of being around alcohol (like drunk driving).
  
  http://espn.go.com/boston/story/_/id/9826842/high-school-athlete-massachusetts-suspended-driving-drunk-friend

• gut

  Incredibly moronic...and irresponsible.
  
  Legally I'm not even sure they could suspend her. She wasn't drunk, and she wasn't at the party.
  
  Also, I've not heard of zero tolerance policies for the general student pop...I've only seen it applied with regard to participation in extra-curriculars.
• se-alum

  

  Ridiculous. How would that girl live with herself if she declined to give her friend a ride home, and she was killed in an accident? It would haunt her for the rest of her life.
• se-alum

  

  gut;1518071 wrote:Incredibly moronic...and irresponsible.
  
  Legally I'm not even sure they could suspend her. She wasn't drunk, and she wasn't at the party.
  
  Also, I've not heard of zero tolerance policies for the general student pop...I've only seen it applied with regard to participation in extra-curriculars.

  She was suspended from the volleyball team, not school.
• gut

  se-alum;1518077 wrote:She was suspended from the volleyball team, not school.

  OK, but still moronic.
  
  Although I can see the misguided logic that they want kids to call their parents so mom & dad can address the issue. But that's just stupid - that a kid is saved from driving drunk should trump everything 10X over.
• justincredible

  

  Asinine decision by the school. I'd pull my kids immediately as the school is obviously administered by morons.
• vdubb96

  

  justincredible;1518126 wrote:Asinine decision by the school. I'd pull my kids immediately as the school is obviously administered by morons.

  True that!
• Classyposter58

  

  I hope she isn't a senior so the parents can open enroll her to a rival school for next season
• Tiernan

  1-CALL-TIERNAN next time.
• TedSheckler

  

  se-alum;1518077 wrote:She was suspended from the volleyball team, not school.

  And stripped of her captaincy.
• Tiernan

  She was stripped too? Damn that's hard core.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  it's just volleyball
• said_aouita

  

  Too bad the parents didn't have the balls to get a lawyer.
• hasbeen

  

  No flexibility for common sense.
• dlazz

  SMH this is what the liberal attitude will get you these days doing the right thing and bring punished this is solely to blame on our government "leaders"
  
  /Belly'd
• se-alum

  

  said_aouita;1518178 wrote:Too bad the parents didn't have the balls to get a lawyer.

  They do have a lawyer.
• hasbeen

  

  dlazz;1518268 wrote:SMH this is what the liberal attitude will get you these days doing the right thing and bring punished this is solely to blame on our government "leaders"
  
  /Belly'd

  Not a "/belly' d", did not reference Obama
• vball10set

  ZWICK 4 PREZ;1518167 wrote:it's just volleyball

  Hey now, be nice :RpS_sneaky: