Can My Kid Be Suspended Or Expelled For Providing A Fake Drug Or Non-Alcohol?
By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995 Would you be surprised if you received a phone call stating that your son/daughter was being suspended or expelled for providing a "drug" to another student? What if later it turns out not to be an illegal substance at all, but rather your son/daughter pretended it was? Or, maybe this student just "possessed" the fake-drug but did not sell, offer to sell or provide it to another? Can either situation form the basis for a suspension or expulsion? Per Education Code section 48900 (c) and (d) , students may be suspended or expelled if they: 1) Possess, sell, use, or furnish a controlled substance , alcoholic beverage, or intoxicant of any kind, or 2) Sell, deliver or furnish any of the above, or 3) Sell, deliver or otherwise furnish "another liquid, substance, or material" and represent that item as a prohibited item (#1 above). This is very interesting language. What is says ...