Extra-credit Burrito Leads to School Scare

Clovis News Journal ^ | April 29, 2005 | Marlena Hartz

[MississippiMasterpiece]

Clovis Police Officer Clay Cullison stands outside Marshall Junior High School on Thursday. Police were called to the school after a concerned citizen reported seeing a male juvenile enter with a suspiciously concealed item.

[wideawake]

Making a burrito counts toward extra credit?

What kind of school is this?

[politicket]

Make a run for the border....

[tiredoflaundry]

A 30-inch burrito, prepared as an extra-credit assignment and wrapped inside tinfoil and a white T-shirt.

In my house burrito's are Weapons of Mass Destruction!

PU

[dfwgator]

"Drop the chalupa!"

[Sthitch]

This is one of the dumbest things I have read in quite sometime. And that is saying quite a lot.

[Robert_Paulson2]

A school of idiots, from a community of the same.

[dead]

Heather Black, who has a son at the school, echoed the sentiments of the crowd. “There needs to be security before the kids walk through the door,” she said.

"Something happened, so somebody has to do something sometime soon!"

[tfecw]

No one thought to ask the girl what it was?

Knee jerk reactions are fun for the tax payers :) just think they got a double wammy out of that one. Wasted police resources as well as wasted a paid day of "education"

I hear next week they are having their weekly "tax dollar burning event" Its a good time. They get a bunch of tax dollars then burn it. The citizens get to toast smores (funded by the tax payers of course) No hotdogs though, killing animals is cruel.

[add925]

"Me Mikey, Me likey Burrito"

[passionfruit]

When good culinary arts students go bad. Don't let this happen to your kid.

Next time make a pizza!!

[WoofDog123]

The student is fortunate he wasn't tasered after he identified himself in order to secure the burrito more quickly.

[Fido969]

“We’ve trained for incidents just like this — the training just kicked in,” said Sgt. Jim Schoeffel of the Clovis Police Department.

*snicker*

[passionfruit]

I was in NJROTC in high school. I always carried the drill rifle around school with me, so I could take it home and practice. That one wasn't operable, but the .22's we used for target practice were.

We would carry them to and from the rifle range that was about a mile from the school. No one was ever hurt and no one ever asked questions about it.

[conservative cat]

Bumping for a later read. This thread just has too much potential.

[Fido969]

“The kid was sitting there as I’m describing this (citizen report of a student with a suspicious package) and he’s thinking, ‘Oh, my gosh, they’re talking about my burrito.’”

Check out my package, hun - they're all talking 'bout MY burrito.

[Luna]

A concerned citizen spotted a male juvenile carrying a suspiciously concealed item into Marshall Junior High School early Thursday morning.

I'm suspicious of "concerned citizens." I don't think they have anything better to do than watch what other people are doing and jump to conclusions based on zero evidence.

[newgeezer]

I'll never forget that I 'celebrated' my 22nd birthday in Clovis, NM. The evening itself was totally forgettable, which is why I'll never forget that I was in Clovis, NM.

I don't think I've ever seen a lamer excuse for incorporation than Clovis, NM. Except for maybe Friona, TX.

[Arrowhead1952]

[gueroloco]

A public school, where manual labor apparently substitutes nicely for subject mastery.

[Safetgiver]

This will date me...but, oh for the simpler times. I lived about two miles from my high school and had a trap line that I checked when walking to school. I carried a .22 rifle, the principal and teachers knew it, I took it to the teachers union (lounge) where they checked it to make sure it wasn't loaded and picked it up there every night to check traps on the way home. No one even thought about this as being abnormal. (sigh) wish it were 1965 again.

[SE Mom]

In my day we would have had this assignment in a class called Home Economics. Does this subject exist anymore?

[IamConservative]

Upon first reading of the title, I was thinking this was an article of gastronomic proportions.

[day10]

[ElkGroveDan]

A 30-inch burrito, prepared as an extra-credit assignment

When I was a kid we made plaster volcanos. Kinda says something about our culture today, no?

[ElkGroveDan]

I thought we weren't supposed to post articles from The Onion.

[ElkGroveDan]

I don't think I've ever seen a lamer excuse for incorporation than Clovis, NM. Except for maybe Friona, TX.

Then you haven't been to Trona, California.

[One Proud Dad]

Times have changed. In the midwest area a while back a boy got suspended and arrested for having his bow in his vehicle. He was a memeber of an archery club and had some field pointed arrows in his car so he would not have to go out of his way back home after school to get them for practice.

[Republicus2001]

isn't there a rule against drunk school officials?

[itsamelman]

[Junior]

This is a real gasser.

[Junior]

Holy frijole!

[Bob]

Making a burrito counts toward extra credit?

Home Economics class, perhaps? (Or whatever it's called now)

[Cecily]

Was the "concerned citizen" named Barney Fife or Gladys Kravitz?

[Primetimedonna]

Then you haven't been to Trona, California

I LIVE in California and I've never even HEARD of Trona, CA?!?!

[passionfruit]

Oh for simpler times! I graduated in 1977.

[BobS]

" 30-inch burrito, prepared as an extra-credit assignment and wrapped inside tinfoil and a white T-shirt."

Dangerous item. Mix some sharp cheddar and beans and onions for an accelerant, you will have a stomache bomb:)

[timtoews5292004]

in one of my spanish classes in high school I earned extra credit for making enough spanish rice for the whole class. additionally, it could have been for a home economics class (now called "consumer sciences" in most places.)

[American Quilter]

A public school, where manual labor apparently substitutes nicely for subject mastery.

Well put!

[ElkGroveDan]

I LIVE in California and I've never even HEARD of Trona, CA?!?!

It's a lovely spot on the road from Ridgecrest to Death Valley.

[SandyInSeattle]

In my day we would have had this assignment in a class called Home Economics. Does this subject exist anymore?

Yes, but it's now called "culinary arts" and "family science". BARF.

[El Gato]

Making a burrito counts toward extra credit?

In cooking class, yes it does. Remember this is middle school, so even the cooking and shop classes are going to be pretty basic. I never took "home ec" as we called it, way back when, but my brother did take "bachelor living". He made a nice throw pillow that AFAIK, is still around, 30 or so years later. In high school, my dad made a nice chair-side stand (with an extra shelf in addition to it's top) that remained in use in our home until at least the 80s, and which is probably still in decent shape, provided that the youngest grandkid, aka Tiger, didn't destroy it, and I don't' think he did. All I ever made was a rather poorly finished but functional gun rack (3 long guns stored vertically), a wall-mounted duck (with 3-D metal wing) decoration and a really sickly pig cutting board. I was so ashamed of the latter, which was supposed to be for my mother or grandmother, that I made two good ones at home, with a skill saw instead of hand saw. Those cutting boards stayed in use for decades. I think Mom may *still* be using the one I made for Grandma. Don't know what happened to the "Razorback", which is what the first one looked like. :)

BTW, I also took small engine mechanics, auto shop, and electronic shop courses in high school. I now have an MSEE with about 90% of the graduate credits required for a PhD, and my brother has a BA in business adminstration. My wife, who also took Home Ec, has a PhD, my daughter (no home ec AFAIK) has a JD while the other daughter, who probably did take home ec, has a master's and goes back for her PhD this fall.

[El Gato]

Make a run for the border....

Eat a 30 inch burrito, and you'll be making a run alright.... but I doubt the border will be your destination. :)

[El Gato]

In my day we would have had this assignment in a class called Home Economics. Does this subject exist anymore?

It's still around, although they usually call it something else. Culinary Arts, Bachelor Living, stuff like that. I believe this school called if Culinary Arts.

[El Gato]

A public school, where manual labor apparently substitutes nicely for subject mastery.

He may have mastered the art of making great burritos. The suject was "culinary arts" and this was a middle school (formerly known as Junior High, well almost)

[wideawake]

Not bad. This guy will be able to fix himself a burrito at home. And, perhaps, manufacture burritos professionally.

BTW, my father teaches at a high school where the kids are trained in how to repair aircraft engines. many good MEs and EEs come out of that shop.

[Bones75]

A 30 inch burrito, huh?

So this was to be a chemical gas attack apparently...

Bones

[Phlap]

The current headline on Yahoo is"School Mistakes Huge Burrito for a Weapon".

Too funny!!

[gueroloco]

Three cheers if he makes great burritos. But "culinary arts" in middle school? Please.

[Awestruck]

How do the liberals manage to live in constant fear? Since stress like this often contributes to cancer, you think they'd be dropping like flies..