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11-26-2003, 04:06 PM
Four expelled from alternative school
by: Trent Knuckles
Four Williamsburg Alternative School students were briefly
hospitalized Nov. 5 after taking some sort of homemade stimulant.
School Director Bill Perkins said the incident happened after an
adult student brought 10 capsules to the school and attempted to sell
them. One of the students took only a single pill. Two more swallowed a
pair of the pills.
"This is the first time anything like this has happened to us since
I've been here," Perkins said. "We try to take every precaution in the
world. One thing we do at the Alternative School is check our kids for
illegal contraband, tobacco products, etc., but they always have ways
of slipping them in."
According to school officials, "some college students" purchased the
ingredients over the internet and combined them into capsule form, and
gave them to the student who brought them to the Alternative School.
Perkins said the students called the pills DEX.
District Superintendent Denny Byrd said the pills were a mixture of
two over-the-counter drugs that one of the students obtained from a
store where he worked after school.
"They weren't lethal drugs or anything," Byrd said. "As a
precautionary measure, we had the nurse there and sent them to the hospital to
get them checked."
All the students were taken to Jellico Memorial Hospital but were
released shortly thereafter. Whitley County EMS dispatched an ambulance
to the school just after 2:30 p.m. and, according to EMS records,
transported one student to the hospital. Perkins said that student had
experience some discomfort due to an increased heart rate.
At the last regular meeting of the Williamsburg School Board Nov.
11, the three students that took the pills were expelled for the rest of
the semester. The student that brought the drugs school was expelled
for the remainder of the school year.
"For us, it's serious because we will not tolerate any drugs. We are
sending a message out," Byrd said.
Williamsburg police located all the remaining pills and Perkins said
the case was turned over to the department. He did not know if any
legal action had been taken.
©2003 by Whitley RepublicanCorbin News Journal
Published November 19, 2003
by: Trent Knuckles
Four Williamsburg Alternative School students were briefly
hospitalized Nov. 5 after taking some sort of homemade stimulant.
School Director Bill Perkins said the incident happened after an
adult student brought 10 capsules to the school and attempted to sell
them. One of the students took only a single pill. Two more swallowed a
pair of the pills.
"This is the first time anything like this has happened to us since
I've been here," Perkins said. "We try to take every precaution in the
world. One thing we do at the Alternative School is check our kids for
illegal contraband, tobacco products, etc., but they always have ways
of slipping them in."
According to school officials, "some college students" purchased the
ingredients over the internet and combined them into capsule form, and
gave them to the student who brought them to the Alternative School.
Perkins said the students called the pills DEX.
District Superintendent Denny Byrd said the pills were a mixture of
two over-the-counter drugs that one of the students obtained from a
store where he worked after school.
"They weren't lethal drugs or anything," Byrd said. "As a
precautionary measure, we had the nurse there and sent them to the hospital to
get them checked."
All the students were taken to Jellico Memorial Hospital but were
released shortly thereafter. Whitley County EMS dispatched an ambulance
to the school just after 2:30 p.m. and, according to EMS records,
transported one student to the hospital. Perkins said that student had
experience some discomfort due to an increased heart rate.
At the last regular meeting of the Williamsburg School Board Nov.
11, the three students that took the pills were expelled for the rest of
the semester. The student that brought the drugs school was expelled
for the remainder of the school year.
"For us, it's serious because we will not tolerate any drugs. We are
sending a message out," Byrd said.
Williamsburg police located all the remaining pills and Perkins said
the case was turned over to the department. He did not know if any
legal action had been taken.
©2003 by Whitley RepublicanCorbin News Journal
Published November 19, 2003