Posted on 05/06/2010 6:51:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono
BOCA RATON, Fla.- A Florida middle school is banning novelty rubber band bracelets due to disruptions and safety concerns, the principal said in an e-mail.
Principal P.J. D'Aoust of Omni Middle School in Boca Raton sent an e-mail to parents saying the bracelets, sold under the names Silly Bandz, Crazy Bandz and Zanybandz, will be confiscated starting Wednesday if students bring them to school, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Wednesday.
"These novelty items have created a disturbance on campus and have also become a safety concern in a number of ways," D'Aoust wrote of the colorful, uniquely shaped rubber bands.
The principal said students have been spotted putting the rubber bands around their necks, snapping other students and "using them as projectiles and stingers."
LOL! One of my favorite movies!
Some just arrived at our house last this week. I didn’t buy them so I don’t know how my girls got them. I know my oldest daughter really likes the shark shaped one.
These bracelets have caused a “disturbance on campus”? What the heck????
My son graduated from there last school year, it seemed pretty harmless to me.
AS usual, he outgrew the craze. We sometimes forget that middle schoolers will do silly things just to fit in.
It would be better to just punish those kids that use the bands as weapons.
I have no personal knowledge, but I’d bet kids are trading them, arguing about them, associating colors with certain things, etc. Basically, just paying attention to them and each other more than the instructors and the lessons. Just guessing.
Well along with banning sliding boards that aren’t soft plastic and making sure our playgrounds are loaded with peatmoss, why the surprise? They see our kids as too DUMB to handle the danger of falling down and skinning their knees. We must protect them from their own dumbness. Yes, the nanny state is alive and well protecting our children - but lets PROMOTE ABORTION to middle schoolers instead! Yes PUSH, “SAFE SEX” to ensure they have sex. This is liberal logic!
I know EVERY materially driven treny kid will FEEL deprived with this ban. After all, this in on the TOP of their list as a priority. Forget about failing academics.
My son graduated from there last school year, it seemed pretty harmless to me.
AS usual, he outgrew the craze. We sometimes forget that middle schoolers will do silly things just to fit in.
It would be better to just punish those kids that use the bands as weapons.
AGREE!
My high schooler collects them. She wore the cat this morning.
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For us, it was baseball cards, nothing new under the sun.
Dealing with school officials here, the most pussified people in the planet - everything disturbs them.
These bracelets are laced with a pharmasuetical element that makes kids more receptive to liberal ideas and socialist tendencies ...
Don’t be suprised when your kids ask to go to one of the “Obama summer camps” this summer. /sarc
LOL, oh my, this is why I love the FR, thanks for relieving some of today’s stress
MAD Magazine was dangerous in schools too until Bill Gaines died, and then Warner Bros. added commercial advertising and took up the HuffPost’s daily talking points...
Cheap? I wish I had known I could sell colored rubber bands for 25 cents each. I could have retired after six months.
Kids, kids, kids...the real moolah is in the Phiten Titanium Necklaces.
Hello.
One for baseball and one for track...but those darn coaches make you take them off if they pop out of your uniform.
http://www.sportstlc.com/Products/Phiten
They ‘make’ you bigger, faster, stronger AND $25.00 to $50.00 poorer.
This is ridiculous. Schools hand out condoms, but ban rubber band bracelets.
I suppose some “progressive” principal will soon come up with the idea of exchanging a condom for every Silly Band turned in.
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