What would you do?

Twice, my 12 year old son’s art teacher gave him a fish oil pill and hot sauce to dip it in – the teacher said he usually dips it in hot sauce when he takes it. Two vice principals and the principal were notified, other teachers at the school were notified, the board of education was notified, and nothing was done. No one investigated other than for asking the teacher if he did it, which of course he denied – on 4 separate occasions. This has been going on since January. Finally, after telling the school board I have been speaking to an attorney about their failure to investigate this incident, today I received a call saying they have talked to other students who were in the classroom and that my son’s allegation has been validated – the teacher did in fact give fish oil pills and hot sauce to my son as well as other kids in the class.

On the flipside of this, after the fish oil incident occurred, my son (who loves to make experiments) found some old amoxicillin capsules – one of which was leaking powder – and decided to make the rest of them leak powder. He emptied the capsules into a baggie and poked holes in it – kept flicking it to make smoke. He took his “new toy” to school and when a boy saw him playing with it, he accused my son of having drugs – that boy and his friend went to the office and said my son tried to sell it to them. My son was then suspended from school for 10 days, sentenced to a drug and alcohol class of 6 hours, expelled from the school, and they are now pressing charges against him as a misdemeanor which could land him 6 mos to a year in a juvenile detention center – with no proof of him doing anything other than making a toy out of the amoxicillin powder.

What do you think I should do? I do have an attorney who is fighting the part about my son’s misdemeanor – but what should I do about the school and the teacher and the board of education about the whole fish oil pill? Should I let it go or should I press further action now that other students have validated what my son has been saying for the last 3 – almost 4 months!
No explanation has been given as to why. Apparently the teacher takes them himself – had them sitting on his desk and a student asked him what they were. He told her what they were and asked if she wanted one and then others asked if they could have them as well and he passed them out to anyone who wanted them.

And believe me…. he will not be going back to that school!