Posted on 11/18/2004 5:10:35 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Entire Class Suspended for Food Fight
2 hours, 48 minutes ago Strange News - AP
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A cafeteria food fight on "meat loaf day" led to the suspension of the entire eighth-grade class at a Memphis school. The students were suspended after refusing to clean up the mess they caused.
"Given an opportunity first to apologize for their behavior and help with the cleanup, most of the class refused to cooperate," school spokesman Vince McGaskill said.
The food fight broke out Wednesday at Geeter Middle School, which has 637 students in grades six through eight. Meat loaf and chicken were on the menu.
Principal Jada Meeks suspended students who were in the cafeteria during the fight, meaning the youngsters' parents must meet with school officials before the children can return to class.
The cause of the disturbance was not immediately known. No serious injuries were reported.
"Suspending students is never desirable," McGaskill said. "In this case, the principal felt that strong, some may say shocking measures, were called for to spur change."
However, there were several humorous injuries.
Sounds series.
Is a tinfoil hat any protection to flying meat loaf?
Graduate of the MCS (Memphis City Schools)
I don't know about you, but I NEVER wanted to get suspended just to get out of school, because I knew what sorts of things would await me at home if my father found out.
He could have expelled them like the idiots in this Tennessee school did for weapon possession (an earring):
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=2579621
But that would deprive the school of too much state aid.
Food fights??? There was very little food. I remember it only too well.
Ahhh.... meat loaf means SMASHED POTATOES!!!
I love having smashed potato fights. Those little plastic spoons make really good catapults.
The trick is that parents do not want kids to be at home during school hours. So the reasonable parents make sure kids do not enjoy their suspension time.
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Well my whole class in the 6th grade all got a whipping. Every last one of us. No parents down at the school complaining the next day. All we did was act like we were playing our band instruments(making the sounds with our vocal cords) when the teacher had to leave the room for a few minutes and she had told us to be quiet while she was gone. That mean Misses Robinson, Yep that was her name she looked to me to be 100 but was probably 35.Good math teacher though.!!!!!!!!!!!!
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