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First Grader Punished for Bag of Dirt
kfvs12.com ^ | 02/12/05 | Tony Hensley

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: banglist; discipline; donutwatch; govwatch; marijuana; pspl; students; wodlist; zerotolerance
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To: Ellesu

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?


41 posted on 02/12/2005 6:10:43 PM PST by hardworking (-O-U)
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To: proxy_user

I just sent him the story.


42 posted on 02/12/2005 6:10:56 PM PST by secret garden (Go Spurs Go!)
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To: muawiyah
they don't know the difference between dirt and weed.

Theres always the ubiquitous dirtweed.

43 posted on 02/12/2005 6:12:09 PM PST by humblegunner (And who knows what else?)
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To: SandRat
I told you this would happen if we let the government start a War on Dirt.
44 posted on 02/12/2005 6:14:10 PM PST by mhx
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To: humblegunner
Theres always the ubiquitous dirtweed.

That crap will just give you a pounding head ache.

I mean - I HEARD that it will.

45 posted on 02/12/2005 6:15:44 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: KJC1
It's time to find a different way to fund public schools. End annual property taxes and fund these idiots teachers some other way.


46 posted on 02/12/2005 6:16:36 PM PST by Major_Risktaker
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To: Ellesu
I think the little girl found a bag of marijuana on the playground. She added rocks and clover to it. Then she gave it to her friend as a gift.

I think the school is covering up that drugs were on the playground.

Probably the recess teacher dropped her dime bag.

47 posted on 02/12/2005 6:21:05 PM PST by Popman
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To: Ellesu

The kid just learned NOT to trust teachers.


48 posted on 02/12/2005 6:21:16 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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To: fella
"So, now the educrats have "progressed" to this."

Get your kids out of the government schools.

49 posted on 02/12/2005 6:23:19 PM PST by blam
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To: bvw

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.


50 posted on 02/12/2005 6:24:49 PM PST by jwalburg (Those buried included children still clutching toys)
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To: Ellesu

It was a satire on the Democratic Party, and they're real sensitive about that. Hence the punishment.


51 posted on 02/12/2005 6:25:42 PM PST by Hardastarboard
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To: Graybeard58

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?


52 posted on 02/12/2005 6:32:17 PM PST by SelmaLee (W- still the President)
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To: Ellesu
They tell Heartland News teachers confused a hand-gathered gift of nature's goodies with a bag of marijuana.

Only a pothead would think a bag of dirt from a 6-year old, was an ounce of Thai stick.

53 posted on 02/12/2005 6:35:12 PM PST by montag813
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To: k2blader

...What is wrong with these people???????...

They fried their brains on dirt and clover long ago.


54 posted on 02/12/2005 6:35:19 PM PST by planekT
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To: Ellesu
It could be worse...

She might have had a banana!
55 posted on 02/12/2005 6:40:18 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: mhx

56 posted on 02/12/2005 6:44:19 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SelmaLee

You have mail.


57 posted on 02/12/2005 6:45:00 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: farmfriend
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.

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."

58 posted on 02/12/2005 6:52:44 PM PST by Puddleglum (Thank God the Boston blowhard lost)
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To: kenth; CatoRenasci; Marie; PureSolace; Congressman Billybob; P.O.E.; cupcakes; Amelia; Diana; ...

59 posted on 02/12/2005 6:58:58 PM PST by Born Conservative (Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard Nixon)
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To: Ellesu

bump for later


60 posted on 02/12/2005 7:20:22 PM PST by zook
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