A 16-year old in Georgia got suspended from school because a drug dog indicated his backpack smelled like marijuana and cocaine.

When police searched Renard's bag, they found some books and papers, all the normal stuff a kid who goes to school would have. They did not find any drugs but suspended Renard and charged him with passive participation. The school calls it part of its zero-tolerance policy. "Students and parents need to understand that," said school board spokesman James Harvey.

Understand what? That you'll suspend a kid because he smells like something? They called him a 'passive participant' - but there's no talk of how passive it may have been. Could he have simply tossed his backpack into a classroom corner where somebody elses backpack was that actually had drugs in it, and the smell attached to his bag that way?

This is just so crazy it makes me mad. I almost hope that something like this happens to my daughter just so I can make fools out of the school board and administrators.

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