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.
Has the entire public school system in this country gone completely insane? How many articles of this level of nonsense been posted just in the past couple of weeks? Does anyone even remotely care about the psychological damage being done to these young children by these lunatic adults who are 'in authority'? When or when are we going to take back the schools from these complete morons?
I just sent him the story.
Theres always the ubiquitous dirtweed.
That crap will just give you a pounding head ache.
I mean - I HEARD that it will.
I think the school is covering up that drugs were on the playground.
Probably the recess teacher dropped her dime bag.
The kid just learned NOT to trust teachers.
Get your kids out of the government schools.
I got the impression that Michaela was saying the only drug she knows about are cigarettes. They told her they thought she was giving her friend drugs and she thinks about this. She's heard that cigarettes are drugs. That's all she sees (regularly). I don't think this necessarily means she sees cigarettes in the bag. I think she'd say "saw" if that were the case.
It was a satire on the Democratic Party, and they're real sensitive about that. Hence the punishment.
Well, you have me beat by a few years - New Madrid County schools from 1960-'72.
I thought that Matthews was part of NMC school district?
Only a pothead would think a bag of dirt from a 6-year old, was an ounce of Thai stick.
...What is wrong with these people???????...
They fried their brains on dirt and clover long ago.
You have mail.
I have to know: how is getting two days of detention in first grade going to result in a horror story/come back to bite her?
Of this is a stupid, malicous thing for the school to do. I just hoinestly don't understand what danger is posed by a small demerit on a first grader's "permanent record."
bump for later
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