Six juniors at a Rockland County Catholic high school have been expelled after they were caught bringing marijuana brownies on a school trip to Washington DC. "They broke some school rules and that's the reason for their dismissal," Principal Joseph Troy said in a statement. "In order to protect them, I cannot divulge what happened. I don't want to hurt them any further by having it publicized." But it seems the trouble started when security guards at the Capitol Building found a pipe with marijuana resin in one of the kid's pockets.
A subsequent search of the hotel where the students were staying yielded the forbidden pot brownies. Although the teens (four girls and two boys) have been described by many as excellent students with no criminal pasts, they've been expelled from Albertus Magnus High School. Some students have started a Facebook page to try and get them re-admitted (hey, it worked for Betty White), with one student writing, "As Catholics and being in a Catholic school we should believe in forgiveness and second chances to those who have done wrong. These expulsions do not help the students nor the school."
But freshman Michael Winters, 14, tells the Journal news that the punishment fits the crime: "It's not the smartest move ever to bring weed on a class trip. They should have thought about it and they should have never done weed to begin with." Something tells us young Michael's about to get stuffed in a locker for that one.
