Teacher who didn't know about pills in her car is finally cleared

The former teacher of the Year honoree was suspended and charged with drug possession in a drug-free zone after two Xanax pills were found in her car, which had been in a repair shop for more than a month. Charges were dropped after she passed a polygraph test, a urine test and a hair follicle test showing that she didn't use drugs.(Houston Chronicle)

Comments

[KDP]

Since I'm not cursed with a sweet tooth, I have to wonder how big a barrel of candies has to be inorder to be worth two hundred dollars?

That said, this twit should have taken the candies back to the restaurant. And reevaluate her choice of friends.

[KDP]

Good Lord! What have I done?

This was supposed to go into the last story slot.

I need another cup of something.

[fredzilla]

@ KDP - I was wondering if I was going crazy. It was such an odd congruence of comment to article. Luckily I'm not that crazy yet.

[Me]

I can't see facing a room full of kids without Xanax or, preferably, something stronger. Teachers can still carry a flask, right?

[RockyMtnMac]

@KDP - I think they were looking for stolen cinnamon bears when they found the Xanax. Makes sense to me. Has your coffee kicked in yet? lol

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What Russ said...

[twerp]

I'm with Me on this one! A pretty Pylones flask full of Captain Jack would be nice!

[Sigh]

Drug free areas, zero tolerance rules, mandatory sentencing, common sense free zones

[Navy Chief]

@Sigh - Second!

[Dave]

I wonder how the Xanax pills were found by the police to begin with? I've never seen one but I imagine, being pills and all, they must be fairly small. Was a search of her car conducted? If so, for what reason? Being an Art teacher in itself certainly cannot provide just cause, though certainly may come close.
Anyway, good for her that she was finally vindicated, poor thing. The way the students and parents rallied around her, it doesn't sound like her reputation was sullied despite the charges against her. Often, merely being accused of a crime is enough to destroy a person's reputation in the court of public opinion.

[sometimesilie]

The War on Drugs is a War on You and Me.

I once had the dean (or whatever he was) who was formerly in charge of the Philadelphia Police Academy lecture me against ever consenting to a police search of my car because if I've ever had a passenger, I don't know what they've left in there. He even went so far as to say that for all I know I tracked something on my shoe and this War on Drugs has gotten so batshite out of control crazy that they'll probably parole a rapist to make room for me and my half-smoked roach.

[David]

It's too bad that they can search your car without your consent now.

[me]

Is it illegal for a teacher to have panic attacks now?
What if they were prescribed?

[creatrix]

I really don't get this. I carry a bottle of prescription anti-anxiety pills with me everywhere. i don't need them often, but when I need them, I need them. WTF is a teacher supposed to do? Just collapse into a puddle of tears in front of class because she can't carry her f'ing meds with her? Buffalo chips.

[Amy Gdala]

As a teacher her car was included in the campus drug search/sweep.

Quite a few teachers in Houston and the surrounding areas have gotten busted this way.

[troschne]

Dave--you are correct--Xanax tabs are very small, so they must have really been looking pretty hard.

[anon]

She should have quit after being cleared and went to a different school. Sounds like a real waste of resources and tax money.

[Icecycle]

Wow, glad to not be a teacher.
The bottle of vodka I keep by my desk would really get me in trouble.
(Yeah, the boss don't like it.)
(Screw him.)

It is kinda my anti-drug.

[troschne]

"She should have quit after being cleared and went to a different school."

Where, anon, I would hope you would be one of her students, and learn to conjugate the verb "go".

[nauip]

Charges were dropped after she passed a polygraph test, a urine test and a hair follicle test showing that she didn't use drugs.

Your tax dollars hard at work.

[lynn]

especially for troschne: go going gone and my favorite

the goingest...

smite me please :)

[Zimbabalouie]

Remember when you were in school and they taught you about things like the Magna Carta, and other historical documents that used to be important lik ethe US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and treaties. Ever wonder what life was like before honest men of good conscience thought to write those historical instruments that provided freedom, prosperity and true security to all?

Oh, hell I was remembering a fairytale that I used to read to my daughter.

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Xanax - good for panic attacks, yes? There are natural solutions as well. Thanks

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