KISSIMMEE, Fla. – The mother of a seventh-grade student at Kissimmee Middle School said she’s had enough; she does not want her son to attend the school any longer.
The mother asked to remain anonymous for her safety and her son’s.
“I just don’t feel safe with my son here anymore,” she said.
Wednesday, the mother learned that a classmate had given her son a piece of candy, which turned out to be a marijuana edible.
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When she picked her son up from school, she noticed something was wrong.
“He looked like he was really sick,” she said.
After questioning her son, he told her that after he ate the piece of candy, and said the other student revealed it was an edible.
The mother was concerned for her son’s health, so she rushed him to the hospital, where a urine test confirmed marijuana was in his system.
She immediately reported the incident to Kissimmee police and the school resource officers.
News 6 contacted school officials for comment regarding potential disciplinary action against the student who provided the edible.
“We are unable to comment on student discipline because of student confidentiality laws,” a spokesperson for the school district said.
The mother emphasized the need for stricter measures in school so that this doesn’t happen to other students.
“I think they need to start searching all of these kids, patting them down like if they’re going into a jail, honestly,” she said.
Her son has ADHD and takes medication regularly, but that morning, he didn’t take his medicine because they were in a rush to school.
“Had I given him that medication, he probably (would’ve) passed out,” she said.
The mother is adamant about transferring her son to a different school, awaiting a response from the district about his eligibility for the Hope scholarship.
The mother applied because she feels like her son is being peer pressured into doing things that can harm him.
The scholarship is created to support families whose students have experienced bullying. It can help with tuition, transportation and educational resources.
“I gotta’ do whatever it takes to take care of my baby,” she said.
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