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.
At least distilling is useful knowledge. All I learned from
chemistry was a deep and abiding love for pyrotechnics.
We did the same thing in middle school, but we called it "Hypo" - as in, it'll make you super hyper (and man how it did!!).
I'm confused, I clicked on this thinking it was just another article on school dress codes.
-PJ
Yeah, that too! You take out of water with pliers, and it catches fire?
It burns good, real good! (drooling)
ping
Ummm, exactly what grade did you get in that class?
I think you burned magnesium strips, not manganese...
Maybe a little in school suspension and a stern talking-to by the principal, depending on the principal would be appropriate. Stupid kids for calling the stuff "crack". Were they selling it, too? Some of the kids at our elementary school were bringing plain sugar in baggies and selling it as if it were drugs. They shouldda been suspended. After they served their punishment, they went around trying to find the snitch and threatening to beat him/her up. I don't think a whole lot of these particular kids because they are so disrespectful of adults and lie through their teeth regularly. (Our boys are not sweet innocent boys, but they will admit their mischief. I can't stand Eddie Haskell types.) Anywho, I don't know enough about what happened at the school in the article to know whether the punishment was warranted.
-PJ
My cousins and I (in our JD days) rigged a bathroom stall door with several 'burglar alarms': Strings and a little black powder in the middle, a friction primer: pull `em apart? 'Bang!'
We checked later and found a pair of abandoned Jockey shorts on the floor.Booglar alarums are standard equipment in the `Li'l B******' fanny pack.
We used to make our own cinnamon tooth picks. We went into the "drug" store a bought oil of cinnamon to soak them in. Hot hot hot.
I still love Pixie Sticks. Pure sugar fun.
Oh wait...that was last summer.... ;-)
My teeth start hurting just thinking of sucking on one of those things now, but when we were kids they were the best!
AS IF these school administrators haven't snorted SOMETHING in their lifetimes....
Remember thaat hard white candy stick you'd lick and dip into a pouch of sugar? That was good too.
I occasionally come across them. They still have the same taste and fun packaging. It's kind of a guilty pleasure :)
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