{"id":20693,"date":"2013-10-14T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20693"},"modified":"2013-10-14T12:52:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:52:02","slug":"punished-for-doing-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20693","title":{"rendered":"Punished For Doing The Right Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Boston Herald<\/a> posted an article about Erin Cox, former captain of North Andover High School<\/a>‘s volleyball team. Erin got a phone call from a friend who had been drinking at a party. The friend asked Erin to come get her and drive her home. Erin went to the party to pick up her friend. Unfortunately, at that same time,\u00a0 police from Boxford, Haverhill<\/a>, Georgetown and North Andover<\/a> showed up.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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They arrested a dozen underage drinkers and warned another 15 underage youths that they\u2019d be summoned to court for drinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Erin Cox was one of those told she\u2019d be summoned for drinking \u2014 even though she wasn\u2019t, even though Boxford police Officer Brian Neeley vouched for her sobriety in writing in a statement Erin\u2019s mother, Eleanor, took to court Friday<\/a>. She filed a lawsuit hoping to reverse the high school<\/a>\u2019s punishment: Erin was stripped of her captain\u2019s position and suspended, mid-season, for five games.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t drink,\u201d we tell our high school kids. \u201cAnd don\u2019t go to a party where kids are drinking,\u201d we tell high school athletes, or you, too, could get suspended from the team.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Erin Cox understood all this, as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I wasn\u2019t drinking,\u201d she told me. \u201cAnd I felt like going to get her was the right thing to do. Saving her from getting in the car when she was intoxicated and hurt herself or getting in the car with someone else who was drinking. I\u2019d give her a ride home.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Erin did the right thing. She may have saved someone’s life that night. The school needs to rethink the punishment–it doesn’t fit the crime.<\/p><\/div>\n

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