ncmomo3 Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I think we will have a big ole Skittles party here tomorrow. I would like to know if there is anything more behind this story..... http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20080312-0841-odd-skittlessuspension.html :grouphug: (looks like Skittles) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 So silly, and what may I ask, was the school serving for lunch? Pizza, chicken fried steak, nasty dry hamburgers...:ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewday Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 :eek: Insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bassoon Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Yet another reason I'm glad we don't live in CT anymore!!! Commonsense, where art thou???:001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansprouts Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 That's absurd! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krista in LA Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I do try to limit them to only one piece until all of their school work is done. :tongue_smilie: What a crazy story. :willy_nilly: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 :rofl::rofl::smilielol5::lol::lol::rofl::rofl::smilielol5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansprouts Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 He's an honors student, class vice-president, Good Kid with a bright future... But we're going to run him through the mud over a stinkin' bag of candy??? They don't give a rat's behind about these kids health anyways. It's all about letting them know who is in control. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. :banghead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen sn Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I can't get to the article - now I must know!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAR120C Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 So I know it sounds completely random and isolated... but...... In my high school (way back in the 80s... eek!) there was an Issue with exactly this sort of thing, only on a much larger scale. You see, we were the geek school. The rest of the city had a problem with drug dealers. We had a chocolate dealer. One kid had a wholesaler from whom he bought Hershey bars by the case. He turned around and sold the cases to his distributors (classmates) at a small profit, and they each kept a case or two in their locker and sold individual candy bars, each at a small profit. It was a very neatly setup organization, and our principal (she really was Dolores Umbridge... and oddly enough this is the second time this week I've had to say that!) was absolutely out to get them. If she had ever managed to catch any one of them she would not have hesitated to suspend him. Never managed it though... She couldn't catch anyone in the act, and even the teachers wouldn't rat them out. :D Certainly not a health issue there either -- you could buy HoHos in the cafeteria for lunch. I lived for weeks on chocolate milk and those "fruit pies" that Hostess makes.... You know... sticky gooey neon colored pie filling in a crust, glazed like a giant donut. It was definitely JUST a control issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCoppock Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Yikes! They would have called the police on me for sure when I alllowed ice cream for dinner one night. GASP!:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigi Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Amen! I will agree with your :banghead: and add :cursing: plus 2 :ack2::ack2: and add on an :eek: for good measure. Maybe they need to start teaching common sense at those workshops they attend while all of the kids get to stay home. I swear I would ask every child to bring a bag of skittles and drop them off at the school door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigi Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Why oh why couldn't I go to your school! Actually most of the clubs at our school sold candy and we had a nice coke machine and hostess cupcakes so I was set. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmom Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 i just read about this on a different forum. I thought it was so stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTMindy Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 So silly, and what may I ask, was the school serving for lunch? Pizza, chicken fried steak, nasty dry hamburgers...:ack2: Oh, this is SOOOO true. When I see the meals they serve in the name of "nutrition" I want to throw up!:iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Hood Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 That is why hmschooling in CA is threatened to be illegal. They don't learn these things at home and they are essential to a quality education. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria/ME Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 My thoughts are posted on my blog....upper right hand corner!!!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmgconner Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hehehe, I love this comment from the principal (from the link Maria gave on her blog): Those actions came after the Superintendent and Principal Eleanor Turner met with Sheridan's family. "In looking back over this incident, I warned the students repeatedly, but I should have reinforced in writing to parents that the district does not allow buying and selling candy at school," Eleanor Turner, Principal of Sheridan, said. "My intention throughout was - and still is - to maintain a safe and orderly building. I am sorry that this has happened. 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." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigi Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Common Sense is starting to come back. They have dropped the issue. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/skittles.suspension.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenKitty Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I was going to also say where has common sense gone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valerie in Chicago Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Let me preface this with, I AGREE, THIS CASE IS INSANE. Nailing a great kid over a bag of Skittles under the guise of "wellness" is completely twisted.:iagree: But let me throw in a little monkey wrench. At the hs where DH teaches, lots of candy sales go on to raise money for various clubs. The newest twist that I learned of recently is that some kids put pot in the boxes and sell drugs under the guise of selling fund-raising candy. They can walk it around school and sell it right under the noses of the faculty! So I have to wonder if we're soon going to be kissing good-bye yet another facet of our own childhoods that was harmless then, but seen as the big-bad-threat now. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Hood Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 That's pretty funny - The Skittles Revolution - Free Michael Sheridon I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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