Posted on 12/05/2016 3:47:33 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
We all know that koolaid is dangerous stuff. Look what it did at Jonestown!
From their daddies and mommies and elder siblings. That's whence the label Happy "Crack." I am surprised that it isn['t called "Kool Meth." Crack is so passé. Kids that age copy the adults. They also try all sorts of taste sensations and I dare you to try this like cinnamon oil. Remember the kid selling toothpicks from a vial of cinnamon oil? That got the adults all in a dither way back in the 50s.
One never knows, which is why I’ll make sure to strap on my six-gun before I head down to the school yard!
When they tire of that game, they can play cops and pimps.
Seems like the district office could have warned the students not to bring these baggies again, and then suspend the students for a second time offense.
School district? What happened to school principals saying, “no candy in class.”? Follow the rules or pay the price. Lord, I’m glad I’m not in the school system today!
During the 80’s, I picked up some Fireball jawbreakers from a local Price Club in Maryland. I found out that my kids were selling them at their schools for a 12 cent per jawbreaker profit. This continued until the jawbreaker fad wore off. I suspect that if the powers-that-be in this article had left things alone, that fad would have died out as well.
Why on earth would anyone name an elementary school Eagles Nest?
I loved those cinnamon toothpicks! Then someone got the idea to soak the first-chair clarinetist’s reeds in cinnamon oil before a concert . . .
Pixy Sticks. Bought them at candy stores. Still available. Nestle product.
I presume some one saw an eagle or two on the land which it was built. They cannot name the schools for communities as they used to, because there is rival-ism between communities, the schools today are consolidated. They certainly cannot name a school for a historical person, because one person's hero is another's villain.
Almost two decades ago, there was a failing high school in one local community, and a successful high school in another local community. These communities are ten miles apart. The local district would not do what they needed to do to fix the problem school (or the problem was not fixable).
The school district's solution was to compromise and close the two community schools, and to consolidate into one new high school on land in between the two communities in a timber forest 5 miles from each community. No one lives within miles of the new school. They brilliantly named the school "Timberland".
Now it is a failing school in the middle of nowhere, and parents who care and are able don't send their kids there.
How could any one find offense with the name of the school, Timberland, or Eagles Nest?
When I saw Eagles Nest I thought of Hitler’s place.
OK, I’ve heard the story about soaking the reeds in cinnamon oil. Are you sure that isn’t an urban myth?
Now that you pointed that out, I am offended! They named a school after a Nazi hangout. Maybe they are training a new generation of Aryan Nationalists? /s
I was in Jr High during the fireball fad. Our tongues were all fried from them. Not any young entrepreneurs among us, we all bought our own at the local gas station.
It’s homemade pixie sticks. Oh, the horrors!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d be packing my kid’s lunch sack with Poor Man’s Crack and dare the school to say a thing.
Poor Man’s Crack - Spray a jelly roll pan and line it with saltine crackers. Boil a stick of butter and a cup of sugar for 5 minutes. Pour mixture over crackers. Bake at 400 for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and pour on 8 oz of chocolate chips. Let melt and spread. Cool to harden.
Duuuude, that’s some primo stuff, man.
You’ll poke your eye out!
Probably and I also remember that they were banned at my school. That of course made them all the more desirable.
Teachers have long had giant mail order containers of candy to hand out to kids every day. You hand in your homework, you get a piece of candy. You don’t stab anyone during class, you get a piece of candy. You stay awake, piece of candy. By the time 3:30 rolls around, everyone is on a sugar high.
Teacher even sell candy. Big lollipops (50 cents) and the dreaded pop tarts ($1) were the most popular when our kids were in school a half dozen years ago. Students would be lined up down the hall during morning break to buy their sugar fixes.
The students had the soda market because it wasn’t seemly for teachers to sell those when the principal took out the coke machines.
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