[DJ Frisat]

Sorry, not a mistake, any more than Obama’s continuous lies about ‘keeping your healthcare plan’ was “mis-speaking”.

Call it what it is: outright stupidity.

[SandRat]

Should have given them Vernors

[LittleBillyInfidel]

I did the exact same stupid thing when I was a young dumb bartender at a private country club in 1990. However, the vision of all those cute little yamaka wearing bar mitzvah kids holding O’Doul’s in front of their less than amused mothers remains a priceless memory. Sorry.

[Graybeard58]

It contains about the same amount as Pepsi or Coke. Still not good to give kids “toy beer”.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Several years ago, I pulled one out of the cooler at a convenience store, popped the top and took a swig on the way to the counter. The guy got excited and informed me it wasn’t really “non-alcoholic”. Somehow, we managed to survive.

[cripplecreek]

There were better ways of teaching this lesson. Just show them a glass of obviously filthy water to make the point. Giving them non alcoholic beer was just a bad idea.



Michigan legislative action thread

[PDGearhead]

Is there a zero tolerance policy on this like sandwiches chewed to look like a gun?

[ClearCase_guy]

"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon… You know, ‘cause I’ve worked in a lot of schools, and I tell you, people do that all the time."
-- George Costanza

[latina4dubya]

i think it was a mistake in that the teacher did not realize it was an alcoholic beverage... i like that the class learned that the colonists, even the children, drank beer because of the bad water... i like teaching that involves all the senses (especially during the grammar years)...

how was the kid able to bring O'Douls to school? i wonder if his parents let him partake at home? or if they even knew he took it to school... (i am assuming they did not know)...

[SampleMan]

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

.5% is less that a ripe fruit. Not saying it was a great idea, but its not like drinking a beer.

I'm just surprised that the kids weren't forced to do navel shooters, after the weekly disbursement of condoms.

[liberalh8ter]

I have a nagging suspiscin the outcome and attitude would be different if instead of O’Douls, it was Bibles.

[Rodamala]

[Gabz]

Cooking wine has far more alcohol in it than an O’Doul’s but is perfectly legal for a kid to buy (and use mommy’s food stamp card) - not that I would recommend anyone drink the stuff, but just saying.

And with that said, it was a stupid thing to do, but I have to agree it was an “honest mistake.”

[GeronL]

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

[umgud]

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

[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.

[Don Corleone]

Common Core!

[faithhopecharity]

Fake beer with only half a percent alcohol I cant get very excited about. You should ( or really, shouldn’t) see what kids in many large cities are “ into” these days. Also, has anyone ever checked into the health consequences of public school. “ mystery meat?” ( otherwise known now as Soylent Brown)?

[stinkerpot65]

Minor mistake. But these same education thugs will put a child in prison for a pocket knife in a tackle box.

[SeaHawkFan]

That's amazing; a school superintendent with a brain.