Re: "It's just pot.": Double Standard?

"Bill Shatzer" <bshatzerNO@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:lrmdnXoHrvqBYgfbnZ2dnUVZ_qS3nZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Spread Eagle® wrote:
>
> -snip-
>
>> Sorry, but I never said fire him.  Maybe somebody else said that but
>> not me.  I say it's up to the good citizens of Vernonia.  They get to
>> decide what they'll tolerate from their school principal.
>>
>> Me, this is about what I've come to expect from the public education
>> system, and this'll just go down as reason #147 why my kids and my
>> grandkids have never and will never set foot in public school.
>
> You think public school teachers are the only ones who blow weed?
>
> 2 educators on Kauai held on pot charges
>
> Kula schools' vice principal and a science teacher face marijuana
charges
>
> By Tom Finnegan
> tfinnegan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> MOLOAA, Kauai » A science teacher and the athletic director of an 
> expensive private North Shore school were arrested last week for
allegedly 
> growing marijuana at their home.
>
> Alan Bertolino, 43, the science teacher at Kula Intermediate and High 
> School, was charged with second-degree commercial production of
marijuana, 
> among other charges. He worked at the school for about two months.
>
> Bertolino, who is being held in lieu of bail, was fired Monday, Kula
High 
> Principal David Mireles said.
>
> Kula Vice Principal and Athletic Director David Rojeck, 42, was charged 
> with third-degree promotion of a detrimental drug, a petty misdemeanor.
>
> http://starbulletin.com/2007/04/19/news/story01.html
>
> Peace and justice,
>


Even more amusing, almost any teenager in America is going to get on the 
internet, and see the statistics that nearly half of all Americans have 
tried pot at least once in their life.   Many of the current generation of

kids have seen their parents smoke the stuff at one time or another. 
These 
kids are not going to be shocked by their school principal smoking the 
stuff.  If anything, it will humanize the guy to the students, make it 
easier for them to relate to him, and perhaps communicte with him more 
freely.

Really, the way some people crow ("he's a drug addict!  it's 
illleeeegallll!") you'd think he had been found in the park with a 
hypodermic hanging out of his arm.  Sheesh.