That's why you'd be better off staying on your side of the Hudson.

And stop whining.

I want a FoodTV contest... "Outer-Burrough" Tomato Pie -vs- real freakin' cheese pizza, from the Jersey shore (not the TV show!) ]

VALPARAISO | Three Valparaiso High School students suspended earlier this week now may face criminal charges after being caught on camera snorting a prescription painkiller off a school desk.

According to Valparaiso police, an anonymous student used a cell phone camera to film three 17-year-old boys snorting crushed hydrocodone tablets, commonly marketed as Vicodin, in a classroom Monday.

In the video, three students are seen in a classroom raking a powdery substance into a line and snorting it up their noses. The boys then jerk their heads back and wipe their faces before laughing.

The student who captured the incident gave one of the school's assistant principals a copy of the video Tuesday. The school resource officer was notified and watched the video before questioning the students involved.

All three of the boys admitted to knowingly ingesting the hydrocodone. Two of them said they snorted it while the third told the officer he ingested it through his mouth.

One of the boys told the officer he received one and 1/2 tablets of the drug from an 18-year-old student, crushed the pills and cut them with sugar and flour he kept in his locker.

Police also interviewed the 18-year-old, who denied any involvement. Valparaiso police spokesman Sgt. Mike Grennes said investigators still are looking into his possible involvement and consider him a person of interest.

All three boys were suspended from school and immediately sent home with relatives. The three also were ordered to take drug tests.

Grennes said the boys may face juvenile charges, two of them for possession of a controlled substance, while the student who admitted to mixing the drugs could face a drug dealing charge.

embcrna05 said on: January 29, 2011, 6:57 am
I want to add one more comment. My husband was never interviewed as to the events of that day. He was brought to the office, read a letter, and escorted to his car. How's that for an investigation, and 'innocent until proven guilty?'

[quote]embcrna05 said: "Slappy---I will tell you where that teacher was. He is my husband and he was teaching 5 kids in the front of the classroom. This is an emotionally challenged special ed class. The students doing drugs entered the class late. There is not another adult in the room to assist with the class at all. My husband had a choice: continue teaching the lesson he started, or be a babysitter to students who refuse to engage in the classroom lessons. He had NO idea that those students were doing that. He was BUSY doing his job---teaching.

Students every single day refuse to participate in the classroom lessons. Class had already started. My husband was focused on the students in the front of the room. He has ONE set of eyes. He is ONE person. His eyes cannot possibly scan the entire room every single second of the class period.

Before you judge, perhaps you should walk in a teacher's shoes. My husband went back to school, took a 40% pay cut from his first career (business), because he wanted to teach kids and make a difference. He is there at 6 am every single day and spends a minimum of 8 hrs on the weekends at school preparing lessons. Now he is on administrative leave and may lose his job because he was focused on actually teaching, and in a 2 minute period, some students in the back snorted drugs.

Don't judge so quickly next time.

OMG!! That's horrible! What the hell set him off? Talk about having issues!

Here's the story: Geez, sounds like a horror movie.