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."
Because EVERY middle school and high school aged athlete is ‘afflicted’ by ALL THOSE symptoms.
I fear a pink one is coming to me for Mother’s Day.
I do. They would think it is ‘cool.’
They’re cheap if someone’s giving them to my daughters - not costing us a cent.
That’s odd. My children have never mentioned them, and I’ve not seen any on any of the other children at school. Must be a regional thing.
Could be. They’re sold at the chain drugstores, Walgreen’s and so on, and at the kind of gift shops that sell Webkinz.
would they band condoms worn on the hand?
“would they band condoms worn on the hand?”
No way!
They’d cheer on condom t-shorts too rather than the AMERICAN FLAG!
It’s ironic. My daughter just got a bunch of them as a token birthday gift at school. She just showed them to me. They are cute. Hers are in the shapes on animals. It’s not banned at her school and she’ll be wearing them to her ELEMENTARY school.
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