Posted on 03/13/2008 8:17:19 AM PDT by Nashvegas
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) -- School officials have decided to go light on an eighth-grader caught with contraband candy in New Haven, Connecticut. art.skittles.suspension.wfsb.jpg
Michael Sheridan originally was suspended and loss his class vice president post after buying a bag of candy.
Michael Sheridan, an eighth-grade honors student who was suspended for a day, barred from attending an honors dinner and stripped of his title as class vice president after he was caught with a bag of Skittles candy in school will get his student council post back, school officials said.
Superintendent Reginald Mayo said in a statement late Wednesday that he and principal Eleanor Turner met with student Michael's parents and that Turner decided to clear the boy's record and restore him to his student council post.
Michael was disciplined after he was caught buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate. The classmate's suspension also will be expunged, school officials said. Video Watch boy explain case »
The New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a districtwide school wellness policy, school spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo said.
"I am sorry this has happened," Turner said in a statement. "My hope is that we can get back to the normal school routine, especially since we are in the middle of taking the Connecticut mastery test." advertisement
Turner said she should have reinforced in writing the verbal warnings against candy transactions.
Michael had said that he didn't realize his candy purchase was against the rules, but he did notice that the student selling the Skittles on February 26 was being secretive
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The Interim administrators apparently have been feeling the pressure.
FoxNews reported on the Skittles scandal this morning.
Jacksonville
"Eleanor. I meant no disrespect. Of course I got your piece. I been meanin' to give it to you. My apologies."
Flags aren’t usually raised until the kids start mainlining Good N Plenty. LOL!
They let this menace to society off the hook? He had SKITTLES! That’s how it starts. Next thing you know he will move on to chocolate. Better keep an eye on that one.
ANY state that over-regulates people eventually gets the same result - Random enforcement of ridiculous rules at one extreme (as we see with the skittles), with brazen disregard of basic laws and a lack of even plain human decency on the other side. Perfect examples are the totalitarian states of Communist Russia and China (both of which I have lived in). A person may be fined heavily for spitting, or riding one’s bike the wrong way, but at the same time, corruption is rife from top to bottom, and society is plagued with criminal gangs, drugs, pollution. Nothing is legal, but everything is allowed. To many rules means only the petty ones are enforced.
Exactly! It’s for their own good.
Who eats Skittles?
Between this and Mary Ann it wasn’t safe to walk the streets.
Vending machines? Cafeteria? Sodas?
When I went to school, each kid brought their own packed lunch from home. At lunchtime you purchased a small container of white milk, served at the temperature of the outside air. If you forgot your lunch, sister would make you a peanut butter sandwich and send you home with a note at the end of the day saying that if it hapened again you'd be shot.
Or worse, that she would have to tell father.
This is too funny! I remember when I was in school and it was the hoodlums, hippies, and liberals used to protest because the mean old conservatives were too strict on us. We got suspended or marched to the principles office for chewing gum or passing candy or talking back to the teacher. Pocket knives or slacks on a girl were out of the question. How times have changed. Now, it’s the so called conservatives who are whining and crying and constantly threatening to sue because their spoiled little brats are expected to show a degree of respect for their elders in the school administration. It’s all just too funny for an old guy.
Except real prisons have cable. 8-)
It’s a tough world out there for all of the “citric acid” addicts!
I can’t believe they let him off! Maybe the results of the waterboarding interview were inconclusive? Still, it’s a bad precedent. It can corrupt even the best-intentioned.
I hate to admit it, but here’s a true story. Imagine my shock when I got this in an email from my son when he was deployed at Haditha Dam in Iraq: “...Oh by the way, the box you sent got here yesterday, I like the goodies. Still lacking in skittles and starburst and of course gummi’s over here, but I trust that will be fixed shortly. ...”
What a sick world.
Zero tolerance policies are an abdication of the responsibility to use common sense, by administrators afraid to do their jobs. This is not a problem of kids being kids and eating candy. It’s a problem of adults refusing to act like adults when given the authority to supervise kids.
Instead of a national media circus brought about by inflexible policy application, this should have been solved by the same method used by teachers and principals for centuries. Confiscate the candy and send the young perp to pound erasers after writing “I will not get fat and rot my teeth” a hundred times.
“Slowly put the Pez dispenser down!”
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