What kind of message is this sending???

[FishermanTim]

A girl get a call/text from a friend that was at an underage drinking party, asking for a ride home.
The SOBER friend, offering to be a designated driver, goes to pick her up.
When she gets there, the police are there to break up the party.
The DD girl is now lumped in with the drinkers just for being there. She was proven sober by the attending police, but was still held accountable as if she had been drining with the rest.

Now the school steps in.
She was stripped of her team captain rank, suspended for 5 games all because she was going to help a friend.

What this tells me is that the school doesn't want to hear anytyhing. They developed some sort of assinine "ZERO TOLERANCE" policy that has no room for exceptions.
This girl is being punished for doing what an adult would have done.

I guess the school is more comfortable having to explain to the other girls parents (after the fact) how their daughter died from OD'ing on booze, drowned from walking into a marsh in a drunken stupor, or was murdered by a stranger that picked her up on the street, or maybe tried to drive herself home, causing a fatal accident.

Great way to applaud a student that was acting like an adult!
I'm sure that will weigh heavily upon other students that might feel inlcined to help when they might get in trouble. Maybe if a school board member needed emergency assistance, and a student refused because it would go against the school rules, maybe that would also be OK???