Oh please, stop pretending that this is about parental authority, it is NOT.
It’s about bureaucratic MORONS who are throwing their little petty power around, because they can. Suspending a young person for selling candy. For God’s sake. suspending a retail process is one thing, but selling a single pack of candy?????
What’s WRONG with these idiots?? Oh wait, I know. Socials that must control every thought.
It’s way closer than you think.
See my tagline.
If you wander up the thread, you will see I agree with you.
I’m saying the rule is not absurd. The punishment was absurd.
If you are saying that as a parent I have no right to have the school enforce a policy of not allowing students to sell food items to my child, I disagree with you. I might not support such a rule myself, but it is a rational way to give parents control over the raising of their children.
As I said before, the child could bring all the skittles to school he wanted. He was just not allowed to BUY them from another student.
The kid said he didn’t know the rule. It didn’t sound like the kid was OBJECTING to the rule. The other kid seemed to know the rule, and seemed to have a business selling contraband. But since he was let off, maybe that was a misperception from the original article.
This reminds me of the South Park episode where Eric Cartman is sent to a fat camp and smuggles in candy to sell to the other kids. He makes lots of money, and angry parents come to shut down the camp because it obviously “isn’t working”.
Anyway, by High School kids should be able to start thinking for themselves, so I wouldn’t push this kind of rule at that grade level. But elementary and middle school, I think this is a GOOD policy, so long as the punishment is not overblown.