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   From: pjberg@webtv.net   
      
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   Form The Portland (Oregon) Tribune - July 17, 2007   
      
   By now, everyone's heard of the Vernonia elementary school principal who   
   was caught smoking pot on a recent Friday evening at Fort Stevens State   
   Park and cited for possession of a controlled substance.   
      
   After reviewing the case, the local school board deemed it a "single   
   incident of poor judgment," and the 41-year-old principal was allowed to   
   keep his job.   
      
   The same thing could happen in Portland, because the school district has   
   no set policy on teachers or administrators getting caught for pot   
   possession, and apparently it hasn't come up before.   
      
   "They could be terminated immediately if it was a chronic problem —   
   ha-ha," spokeswoman Sarah Carlin Ames says. "But you'd look at the   
   principal's performance on a case-by-case basis, and if it's not   
   affecting their work … we'd give them a plan of assistance, a last   
   chance."   
      
   The district does not drug-test its employees, she noted. What would she   
   imagine they'd find if they did? "I hate to speculate," she says, "but   
   they're baby boomers, a lot of them."   
      
   -- End of News Article --   
      
   Poster's Note: Nice way for a public employee to insult a whole   
   generation of Americans.  Can you imagine the public outcry if we were   
   talking about crack instead and Sarah Carlin Ames had said "I hate to   
   speculate, but they're black, a lot of them."   
      
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