WTF?!

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/Connecticut.skittles.suspension.2.675314.html

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"Conn. Student Suspended For Buying Candy In School NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ? Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an eighth-grade honors student. Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate. The New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a district-wide school wellness policy, said school spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo. Shelli Sheridan, Michael's mother, said he is a top student with no previous disciplinary problems. "It's too much. It's too unfair," she said. "He's never even had a detention." Michael's suspension has been reduced from three days to one, but he has not been reinstated as class vice president. He said he didn't realize his candy purchase was against the rules, but he did notice that the student selling the Skittles on Feb. 26 was being secretive. An administrator busted Michael with the candy in his pocket. His mother says the student who sold him the Skittles out of a lunch box was also suspended. Sullivan-DeCarlo said Sheridan Middle School principal Eleanor Turner repeatedly warned students that she did not want candy to be sold or money to change hands during school. Turner referred all questions to Sullivan-DeCarlo. Aside from the nutrition issue, Sullivan-DeCarlo said, students create security problems when they carry money. A copy of the district's policy states that "no candy or junk food fundraisers will be allowed on school grounds" and that only healthy snacks will be sold in vending machines. The policy also prohibits bake sales and other food sales during school hours. The policy does not say anything about students sharing snacks when no money is exchanged."

3/12/2008 10:42:39 AM

what a dumbass kid for not knowing it was illegal and keeping it on the downlow

and what a dumbass rule for them to pass in the first place

3/12/2008 10:44:16 AM

sugar is a gateway drug.


Didn't you guys know? C'mon "Taste the Rainbow"? That's some hippie shit right there. If you lick the inside of a bag of Skittles, its really laced with LSD.

[Edited on March 12, 2008 at 11:12 AM. Reason : ]

3/12/2008 11:11:13 AM

Clearly this kid was a danger to all and needed to be made into an example of.

3/12/2008 11:13:55 AM

thank god we've eliminated all other crime so we can focus on this shit

3/12/2008 11:14:37 AM

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"He said he didn't realize his candy purchase was against the rules, but he did notice that the student selling the Skittles on Feb. 26 was being secretive."

3/12/2008 11:19:05 AM

This school system is anti-entrepreneur.

3/12/2008 11:22:25 AM

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"This school system is anti-entrepreneur."

LOL

I was thinking the same thing. Kid's bringing contraband CANDY to school to make a little profit...

3/12/2008 11:36:17 AM

I mean, I wouldn't want my kids slaving away in an office if they could find a better way. I'd probably encourage them to sling candy at school.

3/12/2008 12:36:25 PM

i remember my dad taking me to SAMs club and i would buy in bulk warheads, gum, and altoids selling them to my classmates for a profit.

This suspension is ridiculous fuck public schools. I really think our public school system is a way our gov't is conditioning our kids to accept an autocratic gov't once they leave and thus not questioning the reason behind many of our laws.

3/12/2008 12:44:20 PM

damn socialists in conn not letting our kids have candy

3/12/2008 12:47:49 PM

theres liberalism for you

3/12/2008 1:09:01 PM

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3/12/2008 2:57:08 PM

they had similar problems with kids selling candy in school at my middle school.

i take it more as taking advantage of kids who often would buy this candy with their lunch money. because in the end, the customers are kids, not adults.

3/12/2008 3:29:33 PM

In my high school we had an officially sanctioned place in the hall to buy candy and junk food.

3/12/2008 7:33:39 PM

Skittles are the match.... Gummie Bears are the fuse.... and Snickers are the bomb.

Sure it's cool to get that sugar high. But let me tell you this smart guy.. I have to deal with the kid who's OD'd on pop rocks. It's a chocolate covered nightmare of candy crime out there...and I have to deal with it..cause I'm a cop.

3/12/2008 9:34:32 PM

being a nutrition guru, i fully agree with the school policy.

i might not agree with the consequences, but the policy is good. you gotta get them when they are young. eating habits (and whether you will have life-style diseases or not) are formed when one is young.

this is good for the nation.

did y'all see the latest figures on how much obesity and heart disease are costing the nation?

3/13/2008 4:16:26 AM

The students should have "Bring a bag of Skittles to school" day. The policy says you can't buy/sell candy, not that you can't bring it.

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"The policy also prohibits bake sales and other food sales during school hours. The policy does not say anything about students sharing snacks when no money is exchanged."

Which teaches the kid a few lessons:

1) The world is unfair. Learn to operate within some of the more ridiculous confines.

2) Lie. No one would have gotten into any trouble had the kid said that they brought the candy from home or that the other kid just gave it to him.

I guess the "administrator" that saw the candy in his pocket just assumes that all candy is either bought or going to be sold at some point in the day.

[Edited on March 13, 2008 at 6:28 AM. Reason : -]

3/13/2008 6:24:46 AM

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"being a nutrition guru, i fully agree with the school policy. i might not agree with the consequences, but the policy is good. you gotta get them when they are young. eating habits (and whether you will have life-style diseases or not) are formed when one is young. this is good for the nation. did y'all see the latest figures on how much obesity and heart disease are costing the nation?"

Whatever happened to "land of the free"? Now you want the government to tell us how much and what we can eat?

3/13/2008 7:35:51 PM

Question: Is the kid in the article fat?

3/13/2008 7:38:59 PM

I remember selling candy to kids in elementary school for a couple weeks. Made a good deal of money too. Was able to sell of the last of it just as the teachers found out and cracked down.

3/13/2008 8:33:46 PM

Shit, I made tons of money in grade school selling candy, that and summer camp. Damn, made a killing in summer camp. If drugs teach kids the metric system, then candy teaches kids economics. Supply and Demand.

Parents need to be more responsible for their kids, dammit.

3/13/2008 9:02:30 PM

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"Whatever happened to "land of the free"? Now you want the government to tell us how much and what we can eat?"

excpet that they're kids, not adults. teachers have the right to tell them plenty of shit.

3/13/2008 9:38:55 PM

^ exactly. i am not calling for unhealthy foods to be made illegal in the country... i am just saying that schools have the right to ban unhealthy foods from their grounds if they so wish.

and it sucks what happened to the kid... but "i didn't know the law" is not a legit defense.

3/14/2008 10:16:57 AM

^All well and good, but the punishment hardly fits the crime imo. If the school wants to ban candy, fine. But the most that should happen is that they confiscate the candy, maybe slap him on the wrist. Instead they treated him like he had bought some cocaine. Is catching somebody with a bag of skittles really worth stripping them of privileges and suspending them?

3/14/2008 10:28:04 AM