Superintendent calls teacher giving 5th graders O’Doul’s “Honest mistake” (Linden, MI)

WXYZ, ABC 7, Detroit ^ | 9:43 AM, Mar 19, 2014 | Kim Craig

[Olog-hai]

While the superintendent of Linden Community Schools is calling it an “honest mistake”, many others are wondering what the veteran teacher could have been thinking when she allowed students in her fifth grade class to try O’Doul’s beer.

While O’Doul’s is advertised an a non-alcoholic beer, the beverage actually contains less than half of a percent (.5%) alcohol.

“That was definitely a bad mistake,’ said Linden resident Susie Lamb. …

[GeronL]

These idiots need fired and banned from contact with kids forever at a minimum

[roadcat]

What business does a teacher have giving kids any kind of beer...or anything to eat or drink?, unless there is an authorized, supervised school function of some sort. And even then I wouldn’t do it.

Would a teacher give the kids candy cigarettes? I don't think so. It's promoting habits associated with adult vices. The teacher should have known better. I believe it is cause for dismissal.

[umgud]

If they can’t have toy guns, they shouldn’t have toy beer.

[GeronL]

Is that the standard now?

Hey the fifth graders survived giving the teacher BJ’s so it can’t be so bad

I don’t think so

[GeronL]

Teachers have no business doing things even remotely like that

[MeshugeMikey]

I grew up drinking vernors. there was a Vernors store [ see below] right across the street from the church I attended while growing up In Flint Michigan.

Sweet memories

[CaptainMorgantown]

When I was in 9th grade literature, we were reading something medieval (Chaucer or Beowolf, I think) and had an assignment to do related projects. One friend of mine decided to make mead out of fermented honey for the project (I think I made chain mail out pop tabs).

On the day that the project was due, my friend took his bottle of mead up to the teacher. The teacher, who assumed it was just some honey-flavored concoction, took one drink, made a face and asked my friend “This is real mead, isn’t it?” My friend proudly explained that he had researched at library and followed the recipe he had found with some help from his parents.

The teacher gave him an A, put the bottle in her desk drawer, and told my friend he could pick it up to take home at the end of the day. A triumph of common sense. Today, there would have been suspensions, complaints against the teacher, and news stories picked up by the national press.

[SandRat]

I'll pop a can of Vernor's tomorrow your Honor.

[GeronL]

That is very different than the teacher passing out beer to kids

[HiTech RedNeck]

Man, how uptight we’ve gotten. Everything has to be super-official, for dread of the lawsuits and whiners (closely allied).

That said, maybe Green River would have been more fit, except for diabetics who could have Diet Green River.

[Don Corleone]

Common Core!

[HiTech RedNeck]

That’s more realistic than aluminum chainmail :-)

[seowulf]

What else are you supposed to chase those oregano tokes with?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Talcum powder smoke?

[loungitude]

Desinex burger!

[MeshugeMikey]

I wish I could GET Vernors here.

Perhaps over the web!

Thanks!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, gross

[Dalberg-Acton]

I guess I didn’t consider the BJ aspect. You’re correct of course. I was wrong, please disregard my post.

[Slyfox]

pair that with

[Mears]

If she had given them a candy cigarette she probably would have been jailed.

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