[EinNYC]

This is in the same vein as what I've been telling you for months. How totally without any ability to connect actions and consequences students are today. How totally callous they are. How totally unwilling they are to accept responsibility for the grades they receive, if they fail. Never their fault. So let's poison our teacher, right? That will improve our grades.

What on EARTH did these students who wanted to poison their teacher learn in their homes about work, responsibility, ethics, etc.? One shudders to think.

There is NOTHING cute or remotely funny about students seeking to poison their teacher. What if the teacher had gone into anaphylactic shock, maybe even died?

[bgill]

The school district is taking over the investigation and says it is using "this incident as a vehicle for educating the district's students regarding appropriate behaviors."

Just exactly what are they don't to do? Nothing. As if the kids would listen to begin with.