"This is your last warning!"
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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I understand your point. However, is this same school system teaching ‘sex ed’ which teaches the kids all about a variety of perversions, while not wanting to allow make it an ‘opt in’ program? If so, then they are being complete hypocrites.
My guess is that the parents of the kids in question threatened to sue & literally use the media to make the principle & school board look like the inbred mouth breathing knuckle dragging fascists that they are.
Right on...we must fight these turds who don't have a skittles ounce of sensible fortitude to stand on. Fight them should be our mantra.
I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts (scuse the pun) that the “Principal” is an overweight/obese, lesbian, liberal activist. Just a guess.
"This is your last warning!"
Semper vigilantes.
Same, but we DID have a designated smoking area in high school (in junior high we still had to hide under the bleachers).
My son is 14, in middle school. I don’t try to control what he eats, beyond making sure he eats a balanced diet at home.
For heaven’s sake. These are not elementary school kids, these kids will be ADULTS in four years. When do they get to start making SOME of their own decisions?
Skittles the gateway candy.
Translation into blue coller English: "I sure am sorry that we got being the petty little tyrants that we are and all that negative public attention we got. But don't you worry my little pretty we'll get you, and your little dog too."
The insane are running the asylums. They are called principals.
And don’t forget the loony Dept. of Education
What...no JAIL time!!!!
Cagney never said “You dirty rats”.
What he said was “Judy! Judy! Judy!”
My what a good little authoritarian statist you are.....
I expected you to back the school administration with your Stalinist totalitarian outlook.
You didn’t disappoint me, Bobby.
I do. They’re quite tasty.
It was ME!!!
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