A student at Albert Leonard Middle School received a 5-day suspension earlier this week for distributing brownies laced with marijuana. Several students reported feeling sick after eating the “pot brownies”.
The incident was widely discussed among students at Albert Leonard Middle School. Several students who say they know the student, an 8th grade female, tell Talk of the Sound that the student’s older sister was recently disciplined for a drug-related incident at New Rochelle High School.
One City School District of New Rochelle employee, who asked not to be identified, told Talk of the Sound the student may have been selling the brownies and that some student knew they were ingesting brownies laced with marijuana.
UPDATE: A reader sent the following note:
The info you have is the surface of the story. The brownies were sold at $10 a piece. At least 2 students bought the brownies and ingested them in school. Their behavior was erratic even for just before a break. These same students had been accused of drug related behavior earlier in the year and sent to the nurse for evaluation. This was covered up by the administration. There were punishments in a way but not of students. There were others caught dealing. No police involvement. A young girl who students thought provided the info was ushered to classes with a security escort. The parents are protecting their kids who were involved but others are being verbally abused by those students.
New Rochelle police were not notified of the incident. No students were taken to the hospital. The school district did not make any public statement or distribute information about the incident to parents. Two Board of Education members, Jeffrey Hastie and Sara Richmond, have children who attend Albert Leonard Middle School.
Compare the silence in New Rochelle to that to the response of other school districts which sent students to the hospital and reported the incident to the police which, in some cases, made arrests.
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It’s aggod thing the student
It’s aggod thing the student didn’t bring in his chocolate chip cookies. I hear that recipe contains a pinch of cocaine and a dab of heroin.
Criminal Activity in our Schools
So once again, illegal activities occur in our schools. And once again, law enforcement officials are not involved (at least up to this point according to reports). Drugs were, allegedly, being dealt in the form of brownies, and school administrators did not report this to police?
Obviously, there is a clear pattern of behavior by principals and other school based administrators where anything that smells of bad publicity is to be brushed aside, covered up, or just not dealt with. The fact that this student was allegedly selling drugs, on campus, and all she received as a punishment was a 5 day suspension (which, in reality, probably turned out to be a vacation for this child) is outrageous.
Mr. Organiscek, the leader of this school district, has enabled this behavior. Things happen in schools, that is inevitable. It’s how you deal with these situations that make school districts stand out. At some point, this culture of cover up and criminality in our schools must change. The time is now to demand change in district leadership, and the school board that has condoned,if not encouraged, this behavior.
The good old days. Makes me
The good old days. Makes me miss IEY!
Plus nobody was “sick”, they were just stoned and didn’t know it.
This is quite a contrast
We wrote about a similar incident at Isaac E. Young Middle School in January of 2009. I the Isaac case, a parent went directly to the police. Sources at the time had said, that the reason the parent went directly to the police, was because they did not trust the school/district to handle it appropriately. In that case the student was arrested. It seems that the parent was right in their assessment.
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