11-year-old Suspended For A Year After Imbecilic School Mistakes Ordinary Leaf for Marijuana

At first blush it sounds like an open-and-shut school disciplinary matter in a zero-tolerance age:

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11-year-old Suspended For A Year After Imbecilic School Mistakes Ordinary Leaf for Marijuana 5504e204175dc.image

Some schoolchildren claim another student bragged about having marijuana. They inform school administrators. An assistant principal finds a leaf and a lighter in the boy’s knapsack. The student is suspended for a year. A sheriff’s deputy files marijuana possession charges in juvenile court.

All of the above and more happened last September to the 11-year-old son of Bedford County residents Bruce and Linda Bays. He was a sixth-grader in the gifted-and-talented program at Bedford Middle School.

There was only one problem: Months after the fact, the couple learned the substance wasn’t marijuana. A prosecutor dropped the juvenile court charge because the leaf had field-tested negative three times.

Their son remains out of school — he’s due to return Monday on strict probation. But in the meantime, the events of the past six months have wreaked havoc on the formerly happy-go-lucky boy’s psyche. His parents say he’s withdrawn socially, and is now under the care of a pediatric psychiatrist for panic attacks and depression.

The couple — both are schoolteachers — have filed a federal lawsuit against Bedford County Schools and the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office. It refers to their son only by the initials R.M.B.

It alleges Bedford Middle School Assistant Principal Brian Wilson and school operations chief Frederick “Mac” Duis violated his due process rights under the U.S. Constitution.

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11-year-old Suspended For A Year After Imbecilic School Mistakes Ordinary Leaf for Marijuana

11-year-old Suspended For A Year After Imbecilic School Mistakes Ordinary Leaf for Marijuana

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