Just damn.
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Posted on 02/12/2005 5:21:30 PM PST by Ellesu
Sikeston, Missouri --A Southeast Missouri first grader finds herself in big trouble after playing with a plastic bag she found on the playground.
It happened last tuesday during recess at Mathews Elementary in Sikeston, MO.
The girl's mother says her daughter used the bag to make her friend a present. But, her teacher didn't see it that way.
Tuesday Heartland News spoke with 6-year-old Michaela Boyd, and her mother Michele. They tell Heartland News teachers confused a hand-gathered gift of nature's goodies with a bag of marijuana.
"There was nothing in the bag i just found it on the ground." Said first grader Michaela Boyd.
After finding the bag much like the one disposable utensils come in, Michaela says she decided to make her friend a bag of goodies, "They said what did you make this out of. and what did you tell them. I said out of dirt. And what else. I made it with rocks, clover and dirt."
Her mom, Michele, says after Michaela put the mixture into the bag, she tied the top with a purple ponytail holder and gave it to her friend saying,"here's a bag of dirt."
After recess was over the student gave the bag of dirt to their teacher.
Michele says after meeting with the teacher and principal, she was told that the bag of dirt, "looked like a bag of weed."
Michaela says, "They said it was kind of a drug. I don't know what they are I only see cigarettes. That's all I say."
Heartland News spoke with superintendent Stephen Borgsmiller about what happened here on the playground last Tuesday and he says while he can not comment on this particular case given the childs age. He did tell me that after gathering all the information an assessment was made and now they are moving on."
Michele says she doesn't deny what her daughter did. But she does disagree with the two-day in-school detention. "They said it would be on her school record as far as disciplinary that she made a look alike drug but I don't feel like that's right. Because she didn't do anything wrong."
Michele says her daughter served her two day, in-school detention last Thursday and Friday. And while she's still upset with the schools actions, Michele is not considering moving her daughter to another school.
Go to zerointelligence.net or katyzerotolerance.com and read all about the the stupid people who run the public schools nowadays.
There are too many stupid people who have too much authority to ruin kids' lives forever.
This - coming from my own childhood school district...
I wanted to post what I think about this, but I am just too disgusted.
The War on Drugs justifies anything and everything the government wants to do.
Evidently the bag was not empty when she found it.
That is the problem, they are stupid and senseless. The way they are worded makes them look serious though. Then when something that is more serious comes up, you have this string of "prior history" that works against you. No amount of saying "but that is not what happened" will help at that point.
My child hood school district was Morehouse.
Morehouse and Matthews is all part of Sikeston school district now.
I am no doubt older than you but I went to Morehouse school from 1951 to 1963.
"IS" means "ARE" in this case.
Who wrote this?
Parents are going to realize one day that some of the people they entrust the care of their children to are either dumber than a sack of hammers or just plain evil.
Victims (students) of these stupid policies are going to think twice about sending any future children of theirs to schools that are run by people who are dumber than a sack of hammers or just plain evil.
Either way, it does not bode well for the future of public education, which, I'm afraid, has basically outlived its usefulness for more reasons than zero-tolerance.
Just damn.
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Teachers were just pissed it wasn't pot, after having tried to smoke it!
Tony Hensley
Well... at least the teachers didn't make Michaela's friend write a thank-you note.
Holy cow. This is the type of article that if you
had an email addy for, you'd send your 2 cents.What a bunch of Maroons.
LOL!
Most of the lefties I know wouldn't trust those folks to safekeep their stash however, not if they don't know the difference between dirt and weed.
BWAAAAHAAAA!!! With a name like "Borgsmiller" the poor guy was doomed to be a superintendent.
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