Posted on 03/12/2008 12:12:14 PM PDT by LibWhacker
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an eighth-grade honors student.
Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.
The New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a district-wide school wellness policy, said school spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo.
Shelli Sheridan, Michael's mother, said he is a top student with no previous disciplinary problems.
"It's too much. It's too unfair," she said. "He's never even had a detention."
Michael's suspension has been reduced from three days to one, but he has not been reinstated as class vice president.
He said he didn't realize his candy purchase was against the rules, but he did notice that the student selling the Skittles on Feb. 26 was being secretive.
An administrator busted Michael with the candy in his pocket. His mother says the student who sold him the Skittles out of a lunch box was also suspended.
Sullivan-DeCarlo said Sheridan Middle School principal Eleanor Turner repeatedly warned students that she did not want candy to be sold or money to change hands during school. Turner referred all questions to Sullivan-DeCarlo.
Aside from the nutrition issue, Sullivan-DeCarlo said, students create security problems when they carry money.
A copy of the district's policy states that "no candy or junk food fundraisers will be allowed on school grounds" and that only healthy snacks will be sold in vending machines.
The policy also prohibits bake sales and other food sales during school hours. The policy does not say anything about students sharing snacks when no money is exchanged.
When candy is outlawed, only ,........
This is beyond parody.
“The policy does not say anything about students sharing snacks when no money is exchanged.”
I say buy a couple of cases of Skittles and hand them out. Make them deal with this terrible loop-hole!
The inmates are running the asylum.
Every public school employee in America is f**(ing insane.
Aside from the nutrition issue, Sullivan-DeCarlo said, students create security problems when they carry money.
A copy of the district's policy states that "no candy or junk food fundraisers will be allowed on school grounds" and that only healthy snacks will be sold in vending machines.
So let me get this straight. They have vending machines, but the kids aren't allowed to carry money?
The kid clearly violated the “wellness” policy and is lucky he got off so easy.
Nanny state rules — coming soon to a public school near you...
thank you NEA.....for giving us such tremendous educators who are more worried about candy than teaching children to read, utterly absurd.
Ahhhhhhhhh the nanny state, just when you think they have reached the max level of stupidity, they go and top themselves.
When I was growing up, in response to some silliness like this, the ENTIRE student body would show up the next few days with candy in our out of their pockets.
What kind of suspension for buying drugs at school? I wonder.
"THEN THEY CAME FOR FOODS THAT CONTAIN TRANS FATS AND I DIDN'T SPEAK UP BECAUSE I AM A HEALTHY EATER AND BESIDES, THIS DID NOT REALLY AFFECT ME.........
"NEXT THEY CAME FOR .........
Okay all of you defenders of the Nanny-Nazi-Police-State (AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST OFFENDERS WAS ELLIOT #9 SPITZER) having the power over regulating every one of our personal (LEGAL) activities and choices, we tried to warn you, but you dismissed us as fear-mongering dotes.
We tried to tell you this was all about POWER as opposed to legitimate "health issues," and all about "the chilluns," but you would not listen.
Well, the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost. How do you like it now????
Schools need competition. Not left-wing idiots running them.
When did Connecticut turn communist? This is stuff I’d expect to read about happening in China.
-PJ
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