MATTHEWS, NC (WBTV) – Two parents are facing drug charges after their child took their drugs to school and told a school officer his parents were breaking the law.
WBTV is not releasing the names of the parents or the name of the school to protect the child’s identity. The 11-year-old student is in 5th grade at a an elementary school in Matthews. Police say he brought his parents’ marijuana cigarettes to school when he reported them.
Matthews Police say he reported his parents after a lesson about marijuana was delivered by a police officer who is part of the D.A.R.E. program, which teaches kids about the dangers of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. “Even if it’s happening in their own home with their own parents, they understand that’s a dangerous situation because of what we’re teaching them,” said Matthews Officer Stason Tyrrell. That’s what they’re told to do, to make us aware.”
Tyrrell says the town’s D.A.R.E. officer spends time at each of the three elementary schools in Matthews teaching kids to make the right choice when it comes to drugs. Police arrested the child’s 40-year-old father and 38-year-old mother on Thursday. Both were charged with two misdemeanor counts each of marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. They were not jailed and were released on a written promise to appear in court.
“I don’t give drugs to my kids,” the father told us when we went to his house. When we asked him how his kid got a hold of his drugs, he replied, “That’s no one’s business.”
Police say both the 11-year old and a sibling have been removed from the parents’ house by social services. Police say they are staying with relatives.
For now. This is the kind of crap people should be seriously pissed off about. You evil alcohol and tobacco users are next, and you know who you are. I hope they stick him in a foster home so he isn’t endangered by his parents dangerous activity, maybe he’ll be happier there….give me an effen break.
“Kids say the darnedest things.”
In how many alternate universes is this families future all fubar?
COYOTE.
Highlighting my Boomer status here but I remember as a kid seeing commercials depicting children in communist countries betraying their parents at the behest of the State. So when did “we” become “them”?
It’s a wonderful world…
DARE is still doin’ its thang? In 2010? Just wow.
Bald brazen absurdity ruleth all.
The kid brought his parents’ DRUGS to school. DRUGS, I tell ye!
I would love to see a video of this kop in front of
the classroom doing his shtick. Suckered a naive kid into doing a mind-bogglingly dumb-ass thing.
wait, they took the kid from the parents over weed???????????? that is fucking extreme
Shouldn’t they have expelled the kid for the zero-tolerance drug policy?
My drugs of choice are food and diet coke.
The insurers for our state heath care program are going to make us all agree to live healthy or be charged more. You are not allowed to get fat and out of shape and die with a heart attack or stroke. Nope I have to get old timers disease as my father called it many years before he died of it.
#6 – they should have least tased him – no one likes a snitch.
You can never go home again.
This know-nothing kid will be finding that out about 10 years earlier than most other folks have to.
The D.A.R.E. program has always functioned this way. Decades of requiring kids to turn in their parents.
Anyone who thinks their kids won’t share everything they know with everybody including many who don’t even want to know is living in dream land.
“Home is where you go and they cannot turn you away.” (to that effect)
OTOH: are there any laws or morality or situations where family members or little kiddies should turn in one another?
I can think of a few.
Its been said that the surest way to change the law is to have it fully enforced. (to that effect)
COYOTE.
Indoctrination works!! Another win for the statists. Nanny State knows best!
>teaches kids about the dangers of drugs,
>alcohol, and tobacco
wtf? 2 of 3 of these aren’t even illegal… YET. Oh, I forget, mind-altering substances are the great satan because… dunno why, they just are.
This whole D.A.R.E thing is bullshit. Talking to minors about legal matters without their parents/guardians/lawyer present, uh-huh.
Smoke more weed. They (you know who they are) will never win. It’s a fucking weed, get over it.
This is about more than drugs. This family will be dealing with this for years in many little ways. Once you are unfortunate enough to get in the “system” you are trapped.
Alfred, progressives created the War on Drugs? Lol
This is the way they did it in East Germany in particular; authority figures coaching the children to disclose parent behavior; non-social and contradictory to the approved norm. Then solve the problem by closing down the family and taking the children away and have someone else bring them up.
What a great system!
DARE…. ROTFLOL
Another excuse for somebody to fuckoff all day on my dime.
More to the point, how come the kid’s parents don’t know what those tree-hugging, liberal, brainwashing, bastards are talking about in school. Sounds like they reaped what they had sewn.
D.A.R.E. = DUMBY Abuse Resistance Education
we need to vilify the weed to protect the hemp.
HEMP is competition for most large industrial processes, it will not be legal as can not be patented, until monsanto bribes someone, then our drugs will actually be bad for us.
BTW, some studies have concluded
a) THC can in some cases prevent cancer / tumor growth and b)THC can prevent brainwashing
look it up.
uMMM,
is the kids name DICK??
ANd when will they stop this push to have doctors ask about guns in the home?
I suppose the Demolition Man prophecies are true…”anything not good for you is bad, and therefore illegal.”
I hope he finds things nicer in that foster care house CPS threw him in. Public schools are instruments of the state for indoctrination. They must be succeeding at that because they damn well aren’t at actual education.
So, after all this, does the kid now trust the government or not?
This child just learned an important lesson about authority. Don’t trust it.
Alfy, our police state started long before your current political boogieman, Obama, was elected. It was that chimp cum President, George Bush, and his Vice President/Sith Lord Cheney that started a lot of it.
Alfy, you sound like a lunatic political pamphlet.
#33–Alfie, Whats it all about?: ““Give me liberty or give me death” is not an empty slogan to us.” ////
1. I’d love to meet you half way.
2. AMG—there’s more than one of you?
3. When you say this to yourself, how many people are in the room?
4. Link to the two tennis players.
I couldn’t resist.
It must get confusing in alfred land, constantly having to redefine reality to fit the buzzword of the week.
When Alfred’s in charge it will be liberal parents that will be informed on by their children. Makes it easier to “round them up.”
Nothing says freedom like silencing those who disagree with you politically.