Boy, 12, Accused of threatening allergic teacher With peanut butter cookie

wftv ^ | 5:06 pm EDT April 22, 2004

[dennisw]

Boy, 12, Accused Of Threatening Allergic Teacher With Cookie

POSTED: 4:05 pm EDT April 22, 2004

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- A sixth-grader was suspended after school officials accused him of threatening to expose a highly allergic teacher to peanut butter cookies, the boy's father said Thursday.

Loubert Gabriel said his son, 12-year-old Jules, had been kept out of class since April 2, after a girl in his social studies class at South Orange Middle School told the teacher that Jules had made the threat.

The father said Jules was carrying a snack packet of Nutter Butter cookies and did make a comment about having "something dangerous" but never said he had a weapon. "They mishandled this," Gabriel said.

Gabriel said the boy has not been allowed to return to classes pending a May 13 hearing by the district. The family had believed the suspension would be for 10 days, he said.

School district officials declined to comment Thursday.

Ingestion of even a morsel of peanut can cause people who are allergic to suffer severe reactions, from throat irritation to death. Gabriel said the teacher was not exposed to the cookies and had no reaction

[dennisw]

Teachers head for the hills when he brandishes his peanut butter cookie

[southernnorthcarolina]

If Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cookies are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cookies.

[Mr. Mojo]

The father said Jules was carrying a snack packet of Nutter Butter cookies and did make a comment about having "something dangerous" but never said he had a weapon.

Nutter Butter's are indeed weapons. .....as are unfriendly words, pendants with gun designs, and the little red plastic knives that come in those cheese and crackers combo packages.

[csvset]

Weapons of Mass Destruction!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

ROFL!!

[dennisw]

Parents angered by son's suspension over peanut cookies

A bizarre story from South Orange, Twelve Year old student Jules Gabriel was suspended indefinitely three weeks ago for allegedly threatening to give peanut butter cookies to a teacher who is highly allergic to peanut butter. The boys father Loubert Gabriel says that his son was set up by a female student who doesn't get along with his son. Loubert alleges the girl saw Jules showing his classmates some Nutter Butter Peanut cookies which he got from a party in another class. She then went to the teacher and said that Jules was threatening to expose the teacher to the cookies. The boy was then suspended indefinitely for the incident. Today, Loubert Gabriel says he is set to meet with school officials tomorrow morning to have his re-instated back into classes, however due to the suspension, Loubert says his son has been feeling bad and unable to sleep for the last few weeks. He said that after the meeting, he will consult with his pastor and legal counsel to consider possible legal

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SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey (AP) -- A sixth-grader was suspended after school officials accused him of threatening to expose a highly allergic teacher to peanut butter cookies, the boy's father said Thursday.

Loubert Gabriel said his son, 12-year-old Jules, had been kept out of class since April 2, after a girl in his social studies class at South Orange Middle School told the teacher that Jules had made the threat.

The father said Jules was carrying a snack packet of Nutter Butter cookies and did make a comment about having "something dangerous" but never said he had a weapon. "They mishandled this," Gabriel said.

Gabriel said the boy has not been allowed to return to classes pending a May 13 hearing by the district. The family had believed the suspension would be for 10 days, he said.

School district officials declined to comment Thursday.

Ingestion of even a morsel of peanut can cause people who are allergic to suffer severe reactions, from throat irritation to death. Gabriel said the teacher was not exposed to the cookies and had no reaction.


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Sat, April 24, 2004


Back to class for cookie imp

Peanut butter threat

By AP


SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- A Grade 6 student who was suspended after allegedly threatening to expose a highly allergic teacher to peanut butter cookies will be allowed to return to class next month at a different school, a superintendent said yesterday. Jules Gabriel had been kept out of class since April 2, after a girl in his social studies class at South Orange Middle School reported the threat.

Supt. Peter Horoschak said school officials met with the boy's parents and agreed to readmit the youngster May 3.

The boy's father, Loubert Gabriel, said Jules was carrying a snack packet of Nutter Butter cookies and made a comment about having "something dangerous" but never said he had a weapon.

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The boy will resume classes at nearby Maplewood Middle School, Horoschak said.

His parents remained puzzled by the allegations. "He's one of the best students in the class," his father said, adding that his son is also fond of the teacher.

Classmates said the boy waved the cookie over his head while the teacher was out of the room and said he would use it against her as protection from receiving detention or any other penalties, Horoschak said.

Ingestion of even a morsel of peanut can cause people who are allergic to suffer severe reactions, from throat irritation to death. Gabriel said the teacher was not exposed to the cookies and had no reaction.

[Sacajaweau]

The teacher cringed and backed into the corner as the boy approached her with his peanut butter cookie. "He's trying to kill me", she screamed.

The children laughed at her all the way home.

The teacher is an idiot!!

[billorites]

From my cold, dead fingers!

[meisterbrewer]

Let's see. A student, KNOWING that a teacher could die from exposure to a particular chemical, says he intends to expose the teacher to that chemical and is then caught by his father with the chemical in his possession while saying he has "something dangerous.

Sounds like attempted pre-mediated murder to me. Not much funny here.

[SpaceBar]

Let the men participating in this thread, and yucking it up consider for a moment that your lovely wife teaches elementary school and has an allergy to peanuts, a very common and potentially fatal condition. A kid with disciplary problems makes good on a death threat and manages to adulterate her food with peanut protein. She goes into anaphylactic shock and dies gasping for breath as her airway constricts and her brain starves for oxygen, leaving you and the kids with a headstone to visit on the weekends. Not real funny now is it? The little bastard deserves much worse than a transfer to a different school.

[meisterbrewer]

Amen, SpaceBar. In their defense, I guess they don't believe the teacher was actually allergic, so exposure to the peanut butter wouldn't harm her.

But, under their belief system, if a gang-banger puts a gun to your head in a dark alley and pulls the trigger, trying to kill you, but the gun is unloaded, the gangbanger is guilty of nothing.

[gcruse]

The little bastard deserves much worse than a transfer to a different school.

You mean something like this?  Now, that's a real teacher!

[TRY ONE]

It's all Jimmy Carter's fault. If Jimbo had not raised peanuts, we wouldn't be in this problem. 'Ol Jimmy should have stuck with freeing American hostages in Iran!

[PistolPaknMama]

They really should require lock boxes for these things and sue the peanut butter industry.

[PistolPaknMama]

an allergy to peanuts, a very common and potentially fatal condition.

It can't be that common. I've been alive a lot of years and never heard of it.

If I understand, the teacher wasn't in the room when the little boy did this. My take is he was trying to impress his classmates. I don't see it as a threat at all, just a kid showing off. Not like he advanced toward her and made threats.

[csvset]

"You say he's waving Nutter Butters around? Oh... he's a bad one.. We'll have to take him out."

[SoftballMominVA]

Hmmmmm let me see.......

Teacher lets students know she has a severe allergy to peanuts......

Student knowingly brings a peanut product to school and tauntingly displays it.......

Student is disciplined........

And the parents of the student are complaining?.........

What about the teacher?

Geeeeez you people are thick. If that teacher had come into contact with the cookies and gone into shock, wow, that'd be awfully funny too. What say we have the darling little children all gather around and laugh as the teacher draws her last breath. Yeah, that's real damn funny.

But somehow, I know, it's going to come around to ..... "If public schools were abolished, none of this would have ever happened..."

[SoftballMominVA]

It can't be that common. I've been alive a lot of years and never heard of it.

Well, there ya go!! You've never heard of it, therefore it must not exist??

http://www.allerg.qc.ca/peanutallergy.htm has some interesting stats on peanut allergies. One of the studies suggests that about 1% of the population may be allergic, but that many people outgrow the allergy.