An Undercover Police Officer At Georgetown High School: 10 Years Later (v2 submitted to the Georgetown Record)

Dear GHS Class of 2003,

Do you remember ten years ago, when there was an undercover police officer at Georgetown High School?

It was a secret operation that only three people knew about, the Superintendent, the Chief of Police and the undercover officer herself. One math teacher was quoted after the busts went down, devastated because he had thought she was the best math student he ever had.

The mission was for the officer infiltrate the school as a "student" and to determine which students were selling drugs. 

The definition of entrapment is:

The act of government agents or officials that induces a person to commit a crime he or she is not previously disposed to commit.

This is why I can't shake the dirty feeling, ten years later. The officer wasn't offered drugs by these children, she searched them out.  She ended up with small amounts of marijuana and pills.  Even that wasn't easy to scrape that up.  That was months of work. On our dime (rather, our parents).  

Yet I remember 6-10 kids being expelled. The Administration wrote letters to schools in the surrounding area recommending they don't take them in. Someone decided denying their education was surely the best way to help these kids.

I wonder why no prominent lawyers stepped in to protect them, or at least push the issue, ask some questions of the police and school about their motives. 

I assume they have all been better off without a High School that would hire the police for a secret mission to entrap them.  

I wonder if they will be invited to their 10 Year Reunion this summer and I wonder if they will be in the mood for attending.