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  • New Subject in Middle School?

    11/23/2008 4:32:51 PM PST · by Southbound · 11 replies · 756+ views
    My beautiful wife | 11/23/2008 | Southbound
    My beautiful wife is secretary at our local Middle school and brought home an interesting bit from school yesterday. Seems a sixth-grader brought in the most unique (he got an award for it.) show & tell subject....his Grandpa's ashes in a whiskey bottle! Gramp's ashes are supposed to be spread on some racetrack somewhere and they haven't made it there yet, so the kid can show him off at school. Now that's what I call a real education.......wife said the teacher was trying to figure out how to explain it to the school board when it was pointed out that...
  • Man arrested after grandkids brings counterfeit bills to school

    06/01/2002 9:43:49 AM PDT · by GrandMoM · 3 replies · 149+ views
    SFGate ^ | 5/31/02
    <p>A man's grandchildren helped land him in jail after they brought $1,100 in counterfeit bills to school.</p> <p>School officials called police after the 7-year-old girl showed a handful of $100 bills to classmates, Stanislaus County sheriff's spokesman Tom Letras said.</p>