a bust

I had my first drug bust as a teacher yesterday. One of my students, C, got back from a 10-day suspension on Wednesday after the snow days. He was well-rested and raring to go. He was fine on Wednesday; well, he didn't open a book in my class, but he didn't kick anyone or anything. But, come Thursday morning, the School Resource Officer (a police officer who works in the school, short SRO)caught me in the hall around 8:30 to tell me that he'd heard from several students that C had told him that he'd been bragging about bring Jack Daniels to school, but he'd hid it during intramurals on the way to the bathroom. (I didn't tell the officer that I was the one who'd given him permission to leave the gym.) The SRO just told me to be on the look out and to ease drop on conversations.

I came back to my room and C was at his locker waiting for the custodian to unlock it. Apparently, another kid had put his lock on C's locker. But, C lost interest and left his bookbag in my teammate's room. So, when he was off to his class, we decided to search his bookbag. Lo and behold, I found a little Axe bottle in one of the many side pockets. I opened and smelled it; it was whiskey all right.

We decided to take the bottle up to the SRO who smelled to confirm our suspicions. It wasn't cologne. We took it to the principals, and they took it from there. C got charged with illegal substances and a ten-day suspension. He's fast-tracked to the bad kid school.