DC student who took cocaine to school will go home

WASHINGTON – A District of Columbia elementary school student who brought cocaine to school and shared it with other students will be reunited with his mother.

That was the result of a hearing Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court. The boy had been in foster care since the incident last week.

Four elementary students at Thomson Elementary School were taken to a hospital Thursday after they either sniffed or swallowed the drug brought by the boy. Officials said at the time they were fine, but had sore throats.

It was the fifth time this school year that a student had been reported with drugs at a school, according to a District of Columbia Public Schools spokesman. At least twice the substance was marijuana.