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Jolly Rancher Lands Fort Bend County Third-Grader in Detention for a Week
KHOU ^ | May 6, 2010 | Gabe Gutierrez

Posted on 05/08/2010 1:18:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher.

School officials in western Fort Bend County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools.

But the girl’s parents say it’s a huge overreaction. “I think it’s stupid to give a kid a week’s worth of detention for a piece of candy,” said Amber Brazda, the girl’s mother. "The whole thing was just ridiculous to me."

Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice.

According to the disciplinary referral, she would be separated from other students during lunch and recess through Friday.

Jack Ellis, the superintendent for Brazos Independent School District, declined an on-camera interview. But he said the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned “minimal nutrition” foods.

“Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,” he said.

The state, however, gives each school discretion over how to enforce the policy. Ellis said school officials had decided a stricter punishment was necessary after lesser penalties failed to serve as a deterrent.

Ellis said failing to adhere to the state’s guidelines could put federal funding in jeopardy.

According to the Texas Department of Agriculture’s website, “The Texas Public School Nutrition Policy (TPSNP) explicitly states that it does not restrict what foods or beverages parents may provide for their own children's consumption.”

(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: autocracy; bohica; democrats; discipline; education; foodpolice; jollyrancher; liberalfascism; liberalism; liberalprogressivism; lping; nannystate; publiceducation; publicschools; schools; texas; zerotolerance
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To: ought-six

“Public schools in the US are doomed unless the NEA and teachers unions are destroyed...”

I agree. The teachers unions are the most destructive force in American society today.


41 posted on 05/08/2010 2:18:28 PM PDT by jocon307 (It's the spending, stupid.)
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To: Ann Archy

Why do you assume that the parents are not married? The girl could have a father from her mother’s first marriage. Does this make the step-mother a “pig,” as you called her? Also, there are married women who go by their maiden names, while their kids have their fathers’ names.


42 posted on 05/08/2010 2:18:56 PM PDT by giotto
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To: Tax-chick

Hey tax-chick, I see you picked up on Mark Steyn’s line from today’s piece. It was very good!


43 posted on 05/08/2010 2:20:47 PM PDT by jocon307 (It's the spending, stupid.)
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To: nickcarraway

can’t have the people thinking they can eat whatever they want. Next they will be think they can think for themselves too


44 posted on 05/08/2010 2:24:18 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: nickcarraway

Get your kids out of public school. Grandparents, you may have to help. But get your kids out of the hands of these people.


45 posted on 05/08/2010 2:28:00 PM PDT by marron
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To: Ann Archy

The kids parental status has nothing to do with the story.


46 posted on 05/08/2010 2:30:47 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Chairman Mao was a community organizer)
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To: jocon307

There are so many good lines in the average Mark Steyn article that it’s hard to select one ... but this fit in the tagline field ;->.


47 posted on 05/08/2010 2:35:09 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
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To: achilles2000

And no thoughtful parent should place their child in what is a well-documented failed experiment.


48 posted on 05/08/2010 2:37:52 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: jocon307
You can’t assume someone is not married because they use a different last name. I did not change my name when I got married.

I kept mine the same legally, too. Socially, people know me by my husband's last name. But, legally, my surname is still my maiden name. When we married, it made sense to keep it. Now I wish I'd changed it.

But, it's just a personal preference, and I never understood why people make such a big deal about it. I know lots of women, many of them conservatives, who also kept their maiden names when they married, and they use those names socially.

Look for my next post on this thread responding to the original poster.

49 posted on 05/08/2010 2:42:35 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Ann Archy

I know a family with three different surnames. The parents each have different surnames, and some of the children have a third surname. I suppose someone would make assumptions about it. The fact is, the mother was widowed from her first marriage, and eventually she remarried but returned to her maiden name. She didn’t want her first children to feel alienated being the only ones with a different last name in the family.

So, you see, you cannot make assumptions based on names.


50 posted on 05/08/2010 2:50:20 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: cripplecreek

Is that what’s wrong with you? ;)


51 posted on 05/08/2010 2:55:32 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: machogirl

LOL it gets worse.


52 posted on 05/08/2010 2:57:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

How worse?


53 posted on 05/08/2010 3:00:31 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: machogirl

My mother then worked for head start for 20 years.


54 posted on 05/08/2010 3:05:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

“My mother then worked for head start for 20 years.”

LOL, but here you are, safe & sound.

Just stay away from the candy!


55 posted on 05/08/2010 3:12:49 PM PDT by jocon307 (It's the spending, stupid.)
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To: nickcarraway

The only way to change this in the Fort Bend schools is to overturn the Board.

And then fire the Supervisor.
Rehire a good one and fire the principal.


56 posted on 05/08/2010 3:18:12 PM PDT by texmexis best (My)
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To: cripplecreek

wow. head start has been around that long?


57 posted on 05/08/2010 3:18:13 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: cripplecreek

are you going to tell me next your mom was, a Democrat?


58 posted on 05/08/2010 3:18:46 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: jocon307
Just stay away from the candy!

I got a green apple monkey on my back.
59 posted on 05/08/2010 3:23:46 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: machogirl

Head Start has been around since 1965.

My mother left after it became just another government money toilet.


60 posted on 05/08/2010 3:26:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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