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School clears kids in contraband candy caper
CNN.com ^ | March 13, 2008

Posted on 03/13/2008 7:02:12 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) -- School officials have decided to go light on an eighth-grader caught with contraband candy in New Haven, Connecticut.

Michael Sheridan, an eighth-grade honors student who was suspended for a day, barred from attending an honors dinner and stripped of his title as class vice president after he was caught with a bag of Skittles candy in school will get his student council post back, school officials said.

Superintendent Reginald Mayo said in a statement late Wednesday that he and principal Eleanor Turner met with student Michael's parents and that Turner decided to clear the boy's record and restore him to his student council post.

Michael was disciplined after he was caught buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate. The classmate's suspension also will be expunged, school officials said.

The New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a districtwide school wellness policy, school spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo said.

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1 posted on 03/13/2008 7:02:12 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Contraband skittles.


2 posted on 03/13/2008 7:05:03 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I love big brother)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This is good work. Skittles is just a gateway candy...gotta stop it now.


3 posted on 03/13/2008 7:05:44 AM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Member VRWC - Volvo-owning right-wing conspiracy.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Everything that is not forbidden is mandatory! ! ! ! !


4 posted on 03/13/2008 7:06:20 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
...G*D DAMN FOOD FASCIST!...what's next? ...in many cases, "WE OWN YOUR KIDS"
...well, we own (or grasping for) everything else.
5 posted on 03/13/2008 7:09:28 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you...our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Sheesh. When I was in 7th grade, we were finally allowed to chew gum in school. I made money by selling 1 cent bubble gum for a nickel.


6 posted on 03/13/2008 7:10:43 AM PDT by laker_dad
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I do hope the parents retain counsel and sue all the educrats involved in this debacle. Hopefully, a jury will give the parents and the boy the assets and retirement benefits of teh educrats.

That’s a mild penalty - I prefer having the offending educrats organ banked, assuming anyone would want any part of one of those things.

Had the boy taken the candy by force, or stolen the candy, things would be seen differently. But, the boy bought the candy. That’s “bought” as in “willing seller, willing buyer”.

Perhaps the issue to the teaching class was that it was an example of the feared “free market” and it was still alive and functioning in their Public Institute of Marxist Studies.

If they can’t be organ banked, call Alpo.

;-)


7 posted on 03/13/2008 7:13:46 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: holdonnow; Fudd Fan

Skittle Madness comes to an end!


8 posted on 03/13/2008 7:15:55 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Stalinism lurks closely under the veneer of liberalism.


9 posted on 03/13/2008 7:16:05 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: SE Mom

The Levin Surge has worked!


10 posted on 03/13/2008 7:16:59 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Bi-partisanship: Democrats and RINOs working together to screw up the country)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Bingo!


11 posted on 03/13/2008 7:19:16 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: LearnsFromMistakes
Skittles is just a gateway candy...gotta stop it now.

Thinking the same thing. First its Skittles, then its Necco Wafers, finally these kids will be down and out hooked on 3 Musketeer bars.

Good thing we have a school system attuned to these kind of dangers facing children.

12 posted on 03/13/2008 7:20:18 AM PDT by A message
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

LOL! That’s what I was thinking!

I wonder how many kids got “busted” for bringing in their Halloween candy last October.

Idiot liberals just making more work for themselves by passing stupid “feel good” laws.


13 posted on 03/13/2008 7:22:18 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Vote Obama! And we'll be picking shrapnel out of our butts for decades!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Government schools are evil.


14 posted on 03/13/2008 7:28:44 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Too bad the other kid wasn’t selling condoms or machine-guns out of his locker. That would’ve been just fine.<*sarc*>


15 posted on 03/13/2008 7:33:44 AM PDT by 95 Bravo ("Freedom is not free.")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Mark Levin giving out the principal’s number must have helped....


16 posted on 03/13/2008 7:34:15 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Bill Clinton: HILLARY!'s other big ass)
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To: Fudd Fan; holdonnow

He. He. He.

I wonder if a little bit a national publicity had anything to do with this.

Have a Frink, change the world.


17 posted on 03/13/2008 7:36:06 AM PDT by dinasour
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

...enough to get him charged with intent to distribute.

18 posted on 03/13/2008 7:36:10 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Looks like dangerous stuff!/s
19 posted on 03/13/2008 7:38:18 AM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: 95 Bravo
Too bad the other kid wasn’t selling condoms or machine-guns out of his locker. That would’ve been just fine.<*sarc*>

Condoms and lubes, fine.

But you passed way over the line with machine-guns!

20 posted on 03/13/2008 7:39:51 AM PDT by null and void (It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
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