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Conn. Student Suspended For Buying Candy In School
WCBS TV Channel 2 ^ | March 12, 2008

Posted on 03/12/2008 9:38:29 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: education; k12; publicschools; schools; trifecta; zerotolerance
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To: Clintonfatigued

Welcome to Looney Land !!!!!!!!!!


41 posted on 03/12/2008 10:46:00 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: pillut48
not ALL women with hyphenated names have wacky ideas like this! (From someone with a hyphenated last name. :-)

Special FReeper dispensation for you ;-)

42 posted on 03/12/2008 10:46:15 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: nmh
"Now buying a bag of Skittles is a CRIME?"

If only he had chosen a condom instead....

43 posted on 03/12/2008 10:47:28 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

More Orwellian nonsense going on under the nose of the GOP, which is why I’m abandoning it.


44 posted on 03/12/2008 10:47:56 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the RINO population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: NJRighty

:-) Sounds like we’re dealing with a very serious crime here. Good thing this juvenile delinquent was stopped before he starting buying the harder stuff, like Jawbreakers or (gasp!) Rock Candy. (It’s pure sugar, you know.)


45 posted on 03/12/2008 10:48:39 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Hi. I’m Catherine Sullivan -(and these severed genitals I hold in my hand are ‘DeCarlo’.)

LOL! You owe me a new keyboard!

46 posted on 03/12/2008 10:50:22 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I’m certain the crime rate will go down a lot now that the school principal is on the case.....what a crock of B.S.!


47 posted on 03/12/2008 10:57:47 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: editor-surveyor
I know ... guess when you give out condoms for FREE or if you buy them - then that would be OKAY! Certainly not a bag of Skittles!!!! HORRORS!!!
48 posted on 03/12/2008 10:58:40 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: shuckmaster

“Has there ever been a time when chewing gum or trading candy was allowed in school? I recall kids getting sent to the principles office back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s.”

You never heard of candy sales in schools for raising money for class trips, etc.? We used to have those once or twice a year.


49 posted on 03/12/2008 10:59:45 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: shuckmaster; fieldmarshaldj
Candy and junkfood has been a mainstay at every school I've ever known. The health food craze at schools is a recent phenomenon around here. I'm all for healthy, natural foods, and I think schools shouldn't sell junkfood to kids. But this school is taking things to the extreme. There's no mention that he ate it in class. He's being punished for buying it from another kid at school.

Here's my favorite line in the story:

Aside from the nutrition issue, Sullivan-DeCarlo said, students create security problems when they carry money.

Oh, no, we can't have the kids carrying money now, can we? LOL. This story is so much fun. :-)

50 posted on 03/12/2008 11:05:37 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

if i were this kid, i would use this to my advantage... when he’s ready to apply to colleges, he could apply to a really good conservative college, write an essay about this incident and include it in his portfolio... i think it’s great!


51 posted on 03/12/2008 11:06:07 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: Kirkwood

Haven’t you heard. SCHOOL POLICY IS LAW.
/sarc


52 posted on 03/12/2008 12:49:49 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: USMCPOP

“... Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! ...”

Was that mistake in the movie script ?

Germans/Japs


53 posted on 03/12/2008 12:53:40 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: Tired of Taxes

The security problem is when kids have NO money at all and are stuck somewhere with no way to call home! (Oh, I forgot, they have cell phones nowadays, but still...).


54 posted on 03/12/2008 1:05:33 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (Liberty Rocks Blog has a new home -- http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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To: LibertyRocks

I remember the old days, too, when as kids we were told to always carry a quarter for an emergency phone call. Now kids can’t have money, I guess, or they might (gasp!) buy candy. Oh, the horror of it all!


55 posted on 03/12/2008 1:51:21 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
This Yvonne?


56 posted on 03/12/2008 2:08:49 PM PDT by free_for_now (No Dick Dale in the R&R HOF? - for shame!)
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To: George from New England

Bluto:Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]

Ah, one of my favorite scenes in all of movie history.
Hope that answers your question.


57 posted on 03/12/2008 2:17:01 PM PDT by free_for_now (No Dick Dale in the R&R HOF? - for shame!)
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To: DemforBush
He should have limited his purchases to school-approved items. You know, like condoms.

Dont be silly.

Schools give out condoms for free.

;-)

58 posted on 03/12/2008 2:33:53 PM PDT by lowbridge ("I can't wait to see what he stands for." - Susan Sarandon on her support of Barack Obama)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

What kind of Nazi school was this?


59 posted on 03/12/2008 2:36:18 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: JoJo Gunn

CT has no GOP.


60 posted on 03/12/2008 2:37:08 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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