Posted on 03/12/2008 9:38:29 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an eighth-grade honors student.
Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.
The New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a district-wide school wellness policy, said school spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo.
Shelli Sheridan, Michael's mother, said he is a top student with no previous disciplinary problems.
"It's too much. It's too unfair," she said. "He's never even had a detention."
Michael's suspension has been reduced from three days to one, but he has not been reinstated as class vice president.
He said he didn't realize his candy purchase was against the rules, but he did notice that the student selling the Skittles on Feb. 26 was being secretive.
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Welcome to Looney Land !!!!!!!!!!
Special FReeper dispensation for you ;-)
If only he had chosen a condom instead....
More Orwellian nonsense going on under the nose of the GOP, which is why I’m abandoning it.
:-) Sounds like we’re dealing with a very serious crime here. Good thing this juvenile delinquent was stopped before he starting buying the harder stuff, like Jawbreakers or (gasp!) Rock Candy. (It’s pure sugar, you know.)
LOL! You owe me a new keyboard!
I’m certain the crime rate will go down a lot now that the school principal is on the case.....what a crock of B.S.!
“Has there ever been a time when chewing gum or trading candy was allowed in school? I recall kids getting sent to the principles office back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s.”
You never heard of candy sales in schools for raising money for class trips, etc.? We used to have those once or twice a year.
Here's my favorite line in the story:
Aside from the nutrition issue, Sullivan-DeCarlo said, students create security problems when they carry money.
Oh, no, we can't have the kids carrying money now, can we? LOL. This story is so much fun. :-)
if i were this kid, i would use this to my advantage... when he’s ready to apply to colleges, he could apply to a really good conservative college, write an essay about this incident and include it in his portfolio... i think it’s great!
Haven’t you heard. SCHOOL POLICY IS LAW.
/sarc
“... Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! ...”
Was that mistake in the movie script ?
Germans/Japs
The security problem is when kids have NO money at all and are stuck somewhere with no way to call home! (Oh, I forgot, they have cell phones nowadays, but still...).
I remember the old days, too, when as kids we were told to always carry a quarter for an emergency phone call. Now kids can’t have money, I guess, or they might (gasp!) buy candy. Oh, the horror of it all!
Bluto:Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Ah, one of my favorite scenes in all of movie history.
Hope that answers your question.
Dont be silly.
Schools give out condoms for free.
;-)
What kind of Nazi school was this?
CT has no GOP.
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