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3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession [growing tyranny]
Slashdot ^ | 5/10/10 | samzenpus

Posted on 05/10/2010 1:11:46 PM PDT by Clint Williams

theodp writes

"A third-grader in a small Texas school district received a week's detention for merely possessing a Jolly Rancher. 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. But school officials are defending the sentence, saying 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,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: democrats; discipline; education; jollyrancher; liberalfascism; liberalprogressivism; nannystate; publiceducation; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 05/10/2010 1:11:47 PM PDT by Clint Williams
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To: Clint Williams

Most of the items on school lunch can be classified as minimal nutrition foods.

That’s unless high fructose corn syrup, salt and fat are now “high” nutrients.


2 posted on 05/10/2010 1:13:41 PM PDT by sbMKE
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To: Clint Williams

Good thing Nanny is looking out for us. Whatever would we do without her?


3 posted on 05/10/2010 1:13:48 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Clint Williams

Amazing.

We should ban mininmally intelligent teachers.


4 posted on 05/10/2010 1:14:19 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1 Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: Clint Williams

Ahhh...Jack booted libs....Can’t possess a Jolly Rancher...But I would bet they will make sure the lad has lots of Condoms....


5 posted on 05/10/2010 1:14:22 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: Clint Williams

OMG!!! the candy police .....so do they inspect each childs lunch brought from home to determine if it is up to nutritional standards...??...where does the lunacy end....let me off this ride...


6 posted on 05/10/2010 1:14:24 PM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: Clint Williams

Jolly Ranchers are a gateway candy ...


7 posted on 05/10/2010 1:14:59 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: Clint Williams

Even Texas has gone full retard moonbat.


8 posted on 05/10/2010 1:16:14 PM PDT by omega4179 (www.jdforsenate.com)
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To: Clint Williams

Attention: Jolly Rancher Candy Co.: If you play up the right angles here there’s a heckuva commercial for you in this story...


9 posted on 05/10/2010 1:16:34 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Scythian
Jolly Ranchers are a gateway candy ...

Yes, and pretty soon it's Mike 'N Ikes and then before you know it, it's complete Snickers dependency!...............

10 posted on 05/10/2010 1:17:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
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To: Clint Williams

I wonder if these hypocrites have banned coffee from the teachers’ lounge. “Minimal nutrition” that, for sure.


11 posted on 05/10/2010 1:17:25 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Clint Williams; bamahead

I would keep MY child out of that school for a month and let them not get the state reimbursement money for that long. Then I’d pull her out completely and home school her.


12 posted on 05/10/2010 1:18:04 PM PDT by dcwusmc (A FREE People have no sovereign save Almighty GOD!!! III OK We are EVERYWHERE)
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To: sbMKE; metmom

“That’s unless high fructose corn syrup, salt and fat are now “high” nutrients.”

Thats the good stuff thats in school lunches. In some cases the food is a low grade. Take chickens as an example. They will take diseased or injured chickens and process them for school lunches.

Literally animals with puss filled sores, broken bones, infections will be processed into chicken nuggets. Evidently the cooking process “kills” any harmful bacteria.


13 posted on 05/10/2010 1:18:13 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Clint Williams

I am all for the cafeteria only allowing the sale of nutritional foods.

But if anybody tries to tell me what my kids can eat in their own lunch, they are going to get an earful. Fascism is NOT acceptable.


14 posted on 05/10/2010 1:18:19 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Clint Williams
Silliness like this make me grateful I homeschool. It sounds like a governmental school doing what they do best...making and defending useless policies.
15 posted on 05/10/2010 1:18:27 PM PDT by dino1955 (Christ is my King!)
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To: Clint Williams
But school officials are defending the sentence, saying the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned 'minimal nutrition' foods.

I'm sure that coffee will be banned next week, along with creamers and sugar.

16 posted on 05/10/2010 1:18:30 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Clint Williams

>’Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,

The same justification used by the putzes in Georgia in banning seniors saying grace and praying before their meals.

United States of Bureaucrats, Health Boards and Assorted Nannyists.

USBHBAN - hey, that works!


17 posted on 05/10/2010 1:19:40 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: Hey Kid!

Did you know you can do whatever you want and no one can do very much about it?

18 posted on 05/10/2010 1:19:43 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

Where in those ‘guide lines’ does it say they can wreck a child’s academic record for having a piece of candy? I hate to say it, but the America I grew up in is gone. Rest in peace America. You survived a revolution, two world wars, a civil war and all manner of evil but you couldn’t survive the morons.


19 posted on 05/10/2010 1:20:16 PM PDT by Shaun_MD (Goldwater Conservative)
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To: Clint Williams
But school officials are defending the sentence, saying 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,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis."

When you take the king's shilling, you dance to the king's tune.

20 posted on 05/10/2010 1:21:29 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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