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This is Crazy! Honor Student Banned For Buying Skittles!

Posted : 3/12/2008 7:41:20 AM

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/Connecticut.skittles.suspension.2.675314.html

"""""Conn. Student Suspended For Buying Candy In School NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ― An eighth-grade honors student at a New Haven school has been suspended for buying a bag of candy at school. Michael Sheridan, a student at Sheridan Middle School, was suspended from school for one day, barred from attending an honors student dinner and stripped of his title as class vice president. Officials say he was punished because he bought a bag of Skittles from another student. A school spokeswoman says the New Haven school system banned candy sales and fundraisers in 2003 as part of the district-wide school wellness policy. Spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo says there are no candy sales allowed in schools, period. The student who sold the candy also was suspended.""""

I understand that the sale and purchase of candy is not allowed at school. I would think that means you cannot get it from vending machines. Seems the students are learning about capitalism and the free market and are bringing their own candy to school and selling it for profit.

tashakota

Posted : 3/12/2008 8:04:45 AM

I did that with gum in elementary school. heh... but I didn't get caught I guess.

Sometimes, I really think people are going over the top.

mrstjohnson

Posted : 3/12/2008 8:13:59 AM

They should spend more time worrying about kids selling and buying drugs!

Maxs Mom

Posted : 3/12/2008 8:37:40 AM

OK I am confused. They banned sale and purchase of candy...Perhaps student "A" bought the skittles, and student "B" was hungry and just paid student "A" what they paid for them. I don't see this as bad I see it as responsible, not "taking" from another individual. Also (I didn't click on the link) was the seller also banned from school?

This is RIDICULOUS we have MUCH bigger problems in our schools. I think a verbal warning for such an offense would have been sufficient. It was not illegal contraband, alcohol or even cigarettes.

Cita

Posted : 3/12/2008 8:59:34 AM

Certainly this is ridiculous (at least how it's portrayed in the story, who knows what the backstory is). Still, it always irks me when they make a big deal that whatever kid getting shafted was an "honor student." What does that even mean? Maybe it means the kid is pretty smart. So what? Smart people do dumb/unkind/illegal things all the time. Maybe it just means the kid is in non-remedial classes at his high school. Maybe it means he got honored for coolest hairdo in the 9th grade. Totally irrelevant, IMO, except to give the story an added slant of gross injustice perpetrated towards the poor, innocent honor student. Stick out tongue

(Now don't get me wrong, I used that line all the freaking time to get away with stuff in high school - can't tell ya how many times I got away with skipping classes, haha - but it's still not exactly fair.)

dgriego

Posted : 3/28/2008 8:45:48 AM

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/other/features/1120//03-13-2008/20080313035003_31.html

Looks like someone put some pressure on these idiots.

" 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 contraband 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 Sheridan's parents and that Turner decided to clear the boy's record and restore him to his post.

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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."

Xerxes

Posted : 3/28/2008 10:01:01 AM

OMG This is laughable. Let's see how much time we can waste and money just to prove ourselves ignorant.

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