Posted on 05/08/2010 1:18:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher.
School officials in western Fort Bend County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools.
But the girl’s parents say it’s a huge overreaction. “I think it’s stupid to give a kid a week’s worth of detention for a piece of candy,” said Amber Brazda, the girl’s mother. "The whole thing was just ridiculous to me."
Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice.
According to the disciplinary referral, she would be separated from other students during lunch and recess through Friday.
Jack Ellis, the superintendent for Brazos Independent School District, declined an on-camera interview. But he said the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned “minimal nutrition” foods.
“Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,” he said.
The state, however, gives each school discretion over how to enforce the policy. Ellis said school officials had decided a stricter punishment was necessary after lesser penalties failed to serve as a deterrent.
Ellis said failing to adhere to the state’s guidelines could put federal funding in jeopardy.
According to the Texas Department of Agriculture’s website, “The Texas Public School Nutrition Policy (TPSNP) explicitly states that it does not restrict what foods or beverages parents may provide for their own children's consumption.”
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The mom is a PIG.....not the same last name either....typical......MARRIED PARENTS have less problems than divorced and re-married, as a rule.
Yep. We are being Mexicanized too.
How about a state law banning idiot school administrators instead?
That's not the lesson, lady.
The lesson is: Never Trust Government.
You can’t assume someone is not married because they use a different last name. I did not change my name when I got married. Sorry if that upsets some people, but they’ll just have to lump it.
Government schools are virtually the same everywhere...
You have children ?????
My country has become a bad, 1960s "B" movie. Aren't the people currently running the country the same morons we saw running around naked and covered with mud at Woodstock "questioning authority"?
It is more the foolishness of public school employees than it is the State I think.
While water is necessary for life, it really does not have any “nutritional” value.
Stay away from the drinking fountain at that school.
Doin hard time for runnin hard candy.
Jolly Ranchers are hardly junk food. They’re probably the least unhealthy candy.
But that’s quite beside the point—even if the kid had a Snickers (Gasp! The horror!), that’s no reason to treat him like he had a godd*mn joint.
I’m surprised more of these school “administrators” don’t get the snot kicked out of them.
“I think it’s stupid to give a kid a week’s worth of detention for a piece of candy,” said Amber Brazda, the girl’s mother. “The whole thing was just ridiculous to me.”
Oh wake up lady! It has nothing to do with the damn candy and EVERYTHING to do with your learning to C O M P L Y!
And you are an idiot!
There is a lesson to be learned from this- school is a sentence to be served, disguised as a gift.
HOW do you know about their marital status....do you live RIGHT THERE???? sheesh.
We’re going to have to some serious up-side-the-head slapping on ol Perry re; ObamaCare and Immigration Reform.
Public schools in the US are doomed unless the NEA and teachers unions are destroyed and the ED (US Department of Education) is abolished. The previous worst president in American history (Jimmy Carter) created the beast that is the ED in 1979 (it actually took effect in Spring, 1980): It effectively eliminated any local control of public schools, and public schools have been in a freefall ever since.
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