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Student suspended for Skittles cleared.
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Posted on 03/13/2008 8:17:19 AM PDT by Nashvegas

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21 posted on 03/13/2008 8:28:32 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Nashvegas

Nation of cowards. We are afraid of a kid with candy and will ruin his hard earned efforts for it.


22 posted on 03/13/2008 8:29:41 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: SampleMan

3 seconds! But points to me for the gateway term.


23 posted on 03/13/2008 8:29:59 AM PDT by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: Redleg Duke
I am surprised they didn’t summarily execute the kid!

In the era of kinder, gentler jackboots they don't execute miscreants, they taser them.

24 posted on 03/13/2008 8:31:21 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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To: Nashvegas

New rule. You can sell Skittles as long as you kick-up to the bosses


25 posted on 03/13/2008 8:31:47 AM PDT by wilco200
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To: King of Florida
So when are the schools going to be given search warrant power to make sure the little kiddies' homes aren't stocked with Cap'n Crunch and Cocoa Krispies?

First they came for the parents' cigarettes...

26 posted on 03/13/2008 8:31:56 AM PDT by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: Nashvegas

Mark Levin devoted almost all of his two-hour show yesterday to this travesty and presented one of his classic rants against the school and the “adults” running it. Go here to hear it:
http://www.marklevinshow.com/


27 posted on 03/13/2008 8:32:03 AM PDT by CedarDave (John, When will you treat conservatives the way you do fellow senators John, Hillary and Barack?)
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To: Nashvegas

The people need to give the educational institutions and good personnel enema. The people they put into these positions are frigging morons.


28 posted on 03/13/2008 8:32:19 AM PDT by Americanexpat
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To: Nashvegas
It's a little late for that... the school administrators should resign... (especially since they're all anal retentive liberal democrats... wink )

suspension from school, barred from the honors dinner... extreme... excommunicate the perps !!!!

29 posted on 03/13/2008 8:32:32 AM PDT by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Nashvegas

OK, if anything deserves a big WTF, this is it.

The idiots in charge should be asking themselves how “healthy” and “well” it is to consider a bag of candy to be “contraband” and to suspend students and strip them of any Associated Student Body titles because of a freakin’ package of Skittles!!

They should also each be subjected to a month-long watch over their OWN diets, including body fat and cardio tests. Hey, you can’t be preaching “wellness” to the kids without being an example of “wellness” your own stupid self, now, can you? Suck in that belly!


30 posted on 03/13/2008 8:32:46 AM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: King of Florida

Great minds. I’ll give you the points.

Where in Fl are you?


32 posted on 03/13/2008 8:33:52 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: King of Florida

This just goes to prove that our nation has completely lost its way - going nuts over CANDY! Atleast when I was in high school they worried over the things like drug overdoses and smoking in the bathrooms!


33 posted on 03/13/2008 8:34:10 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: Nashvegas

And this WASN’T in The Onion!

Truth is stranger than fiction.

I’ve got a shoe hanging for a story about an ATF team breaking up a clandestine meeting of 6-year-olds playing with GI Joes.


34 posted on 03/13/2008 8:34:12 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Nashvegas

I’m going to take a partial contrarian view.

In 2003, the school decided not to offer candy for sale. This empowers PARENTS who don’t want their children eating too much candy. If parent wanted to allow their kids to have candy during school, the kids WERE allowed to bring their own candy to school.

However, they weren’t allowed to SELL the candy to other students, since that would again take away the power of parents to control what the kids ate.

THE ACTIONS they took against the child were excessive, but I don’t think the POLICY is inappropriate. School exists to teach children, not to provide them a candy store.

Of course, when I went to school we didn’t have ANY vending machines, and the cafeteria served only cafeteria food, not candy and snacks and sodas.


35 posted on 03/13/2008 8:35:52 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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OK.......how about a sitcom starring a republican, conservative family who moves to New Haven. Their neighbors are all raging libs, who they must tolerate....use every stereotypical lib you can imagine with all their loony causes........mmm, has that been done already? Anyway, the family has this silly PC stuff happening around them and they keep thinking is there anyone with some common sense around here?


36 posted on 03/13/2008 8:36:56 AM PDT by tioga (Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
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To: Nashvegas

What they are instilling in this generation is a general contempt and disrespect for authority. Once one hits the point of ... no matter what you do you are a criminal ... you might as well be one


37 posted on 03/13/2008 8:37:00 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence)
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To: Nashvegas
Candy has been banned at this school since 2003. 5 years now, candy has been banned. This kid was in 3rd grade when candy was banned at his school.

He's an honors student and class vice president, so we know he's not dumb, yet he now claims he didn't know candy was banned. Worse, the principal apologized for not being clearer!

Yes. The inmates are running the asylum.

38 posted on 03/13/2008 8:37:58 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: SampleMan

South — living/working the SW Broward/Miami axis. Whereabouts are you?


39 posted on 03/13/2008 8:38:56 AM PDT by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: princess leah
When I was in high school, we were allowed to smoke on the side lawn.

I feel really bad for today's kids -- including my own -- because they will miss all of the freedom I had when I grew up.

40 posted on 03/13/2008 8:41:19 AM PDT by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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