re: The bottom line in why I am angry

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given a chance to represent their school and receive all the associated benefits while receiving an education. They should be held to a higher standard. This is a larger problem of society, and it upsets me that people on here rationalize that what they did is ok.

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i appreciate what you say and very much respect your opinion because you are an officer in our military. but i disagree with your statement reflecting breaking rules as a black and white issue. there certainly may be extenuating (sp)circumstances and i think they should be considered. but i really really disagree with kicking them off of the team. the punishment should fit the crime. zero tolerence is so wrong on so many levels. and to intimate that they don't have morals or values is bull shite. you don't know them. so i think your next statement about smoking pot not being a huge deal with you is not a true statement. if you have all of these superior morals, how come you dismiss your own lie? i once knew a kid that got expelled for having aspirin in her book bag in a school that had this wonderful zero tolerance policy. so, aspirin was treated the same as heroine. that's crap in anybody's book.