Posted on 05/18/2006 12:12:49 PM PDT by Abathar
PENN HILLS, Pa. -- Parents and at least one school board member said they believe an elementary school in Pennsylvania overreacted when it suspended 14 students earlier this month for mixing sugar and Kool-Aid crystals and calling it "Happy Crack."
Officials in the Penn Hills School District said the kids were suspended for imitating drug activity.
The students put the mixture in plastic bags and labeled it "Happy Crack."
But some parents said they don't think that should have gotten the students suspended from Shenandoah Elementary School.
School Board Member Erin Vecchio told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that she agreed with the parents.
"My own kids used to make it at school. It's Kool-Aid and sugar," Vecchio told the newspaper. "It's colored. It doesn't look like drugs. It looks like Pixy Stix. I didn't find anything wrong with it."
The principal and school superintendent haven't commented on the incident.
These children should be expelled. I mean, for the love of Mike, bringing sugar to school...
We used to buy the vanilla shakes at lunch and put orange Kool Aid mix in them. We always saved some mix to cut lines of it on the cafeteria table and snort it so we could all laugh at how stupid we were.
If you look at the average intellegence of a public school graduate, maybe learning drug dealing is the only chance these kids have of getting a career.........
You gotta stop this behavior right away. Next thing you know they'll be grinding up sweet tarts and sniffing it through a rolled up Monopoly $500.
Good thing they didn't bring "Pop Rocks". Anyone remember those? They exploded in your mouth!
At least they didn't bring candy cigarettes or bone heads to school!
All they would have to do is say "We're gay!" and that would be the end of that.......
Look how the drug war and all the school propaganda has made the drug culture appealing to kids!
Ping for the Public Schools list.
I loved candy cigarettes when I was a kid. Strange since no one in my family smoked. Even stranger, I have never smoked. But I really liked them.
They can't teach them to read or write, but they sure can suspend them for their "creativity", can't they?
She took a baggy of sugar and kool-aid mixed together to school.
Got called into the principle's office, asked what the problem was, the principle told her they thought it was drugs.
She started laughing her behind off and told them what it was.
She demande that they bring in the "resource officer" to have it tested and then sat there and ate a couple of spoonfuls after they tested it.
She told the principle that she wouldn't do drugs because if she did she'd die, her father would kill her.
;^)
Once I tried to smoke a candy cigarette in the girls' room at my high school.
I found out that the smell of burning sugar attracts assistant principals.
Candy cigarettes were fun and I liked them also. I don't smoke either.
Ain't nothing to be happy about here.
My mama always told me, "Don't go anywhere without your Happy Crack."
-PJ
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