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Son, don't score weed on the streets, let me be your dealer
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A former primary school teaching assistant who admitted supplying cannabis to her son and daughter so they would not seek drugs from street dealers has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service but spared jail.
Nicola Cooper, 43, of Ixworth, Suffolk, told a magistrates' court in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Tuesday that she and her partner did not want the children, aged 18 and 20, to be lured into using harder drugs.
Cooper, who made the admission after police found 116 gms of cannabis resin worth around £200 at her home, resigned from her job at a primary school near Bury St Edmunds after being charged.
The judge told the court he had at first considered giving Cooper a suspended jail sentence but had chosen a community service penalty instead.
Her partner, Ian Leppard, 51, said: "We didn't want them to hide it, but told them that it was not big or clever and they should be responsible. We made a family decision that they should not go around shouting about it.
"Cannabis was something we just had in the house. We have no idea how the police became involved."
10-10-2007, 12:42 PM
Son, don't score weed on the streets, let me be your dealer Post #2
Well considering her children are 18 and 20 and she’s a primary school teaching assistant (not even a proper teacher) I don’t see the problem, but I’m sure the press don’t care about that.
Partner’s profession not mentioned once strangely enough.
10-10-2007, 04:31 PM
Son, don't score weed on the streets, let me be your dealer Post #8
Originally posted by msteuk:
Parents probably don't want drug dealers as teachers.
tbf, it doesnt say they sold it to their kids, to me at least, it implies more that they bought it for them, which wouldnt make them a dealer?
whilst obviously it would be preferable for their son and daughter to not use the drugs at all, if they can see signs that tell them they might be about to try them out, it does actually make a strange kind of sense to make sure that if they want to do something like that, they do so under supervision, instead of on their own where it is far more likely to become a real problem.
Son, don't score weed on the streets, let me be your dealer 
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