These Teachers ar too stupid to tell the difference between Dirt and Drugs? Why are they allowed to teach?
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.
2 days of detention for making a bag of dirt???
Unbelievable.
Presuming this story is essentially true in all important respects, the teacher, the principal, and any others backing them up, should probably be removed from their jobs.
Paging James Taranto!
Is he a Freeper? Anyone got his handle?
They definitely know.
What is wrong with these people???????
You won't believe this one!
Just damn!
Oh the horror stories I could tell this mother. She needs to fight this. Don't let it remain on the child's record. It can come back to bite you.
These Teachers ar too stupid to tell the difference between Dirt and Drugs? Why are they allowed to teach?
I don't know that a 6 year old would even know what marijuana even looks like. Of course, I could be wrong, 'cuz kids sure know a lot more about things than I did at that age.
What a stupid situation. If I was that mom, I'd have fought the suspension.
They are dirtbags!
" It can come back to bite you."
It most certainly can. It's no joke when something goes on your kid's permanent record. Even something as stupid and senseless as this.
When dirtbags are outlawed, only outlaws will have dirtbags.
These 'save-the-children/world-do-gooders-teacher-Lib-fascists'; who imagine they are actually demonstrating intelligent adult behavior as 'teachers'/mentors. . . are instead, determinedly stealing childhood at every opportunity and making 'common sense' a modern relic.
Stop the madness - stop Liberalism and all it's celebration (if only of stupidity) before it is too late.
If the left, in their silliness, continues harrassing six year olds, they (totally unfathomable to them) will be creating a new generation of - gasp - conservatives.
I've never used drugs in my life, and I wouldn't know a bag of grass from a bag of, well ... grass. The sensibilities of these teachers have obviously been formed by different experiences.
I'm glad she didn't put rock salt in a bag. The penalties for "crack look-a-likes" have to be much more severe. Unggggh.
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