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Kid suspended for buying candy, but reinstated

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Rant quamp - Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 02:15

Story here

Quote:
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.

He buys candy at school from a classmate and gets suspended for it? In most schools, they have students selling candy. Apparently, someone didn't listen to the Supreme Court when it ruled in the 1960's that "Students do not shed their first amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate."

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

Of course, that only encourages kids to smuggle it in. :rollseyes:
Well, they set themselves up for this, and then took it back. The evidence is mounting against zero tolerance.

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I used to sell coke

Plant; Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 05:19

Cans of coke that is, but between the back-strain and inevitable losses by theft I gave up after a few months.

I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve, I have a history of losing my shirt...

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my ironic school

Ren-chancrusade; Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 12:53

My school preaches to us about eating well and only uses orgainic and whole wheat stuff, yet in every table in the cafeteria there is an ad for our very popular snack bar, where cookies go for $.75 but a cup of fruit is $3.00.

"Amor, amor, nada hay peor ni mejor" -proverbio

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That is downright

WaterFaerie; Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 13:00

That is downright ridiculous.
I always hated schools that dropped the constitution inside it's boundaries (example; my school).
That was just plain stupid, to ban candy. For god's sake, it's middle school. Kids = candy.
Dip.
And.
Chips.

So my advice to you is just to be a sweet pickle and everything will turn out for you in life - everything.

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There's currently a ban on

Hairballed Kat; Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 22:45

There's currently a ban on candy and soda in my school... fundraising, as you can imagine, has plummeted. In a way I like it, because I really don't like being pressured to buy chocolate from my classmates at the beginning of every class. It honestly was distracting and annoying.

Interestingly, this ban applies only during school hours. At 1:55 PM, the vending machines automatically turn on, and you can have your fill of soda, candy, and chips. Also oddly, teachers aren't allowed to give candy to students... once in AP psychology we did an experiment with M&M's dealing with random sampling and each of us had to bring our own bag of M&M's, because the teacher couldn't buy them for us. Teachers with tenure and nationally certified teachers ignore the rule anyway.

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My former school just stopped selling

Plant; Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 03:19

Except they were allowed 6 days a year for fundraising (of course the teachers ignored the 6 days a year and just did whatever they wanted).

I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve, I have a history of losing my shirt...

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Even though

quamp; Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 23:34

Well, there's a bit more to it than that.
Let's say you tell a young child not to climb a tree. What is the first thing s/he'll want to do? Climb the tree. S/he then grabs a branch that can't support the weight, it breaks, and s/he falls. They don't grasp why you told them not to do that in the first place. Explaining it helps, and that's something we seem not to do much anymore.
If we all took a bit of time to explain why the rules are in place, people might not go around breaking them so much.

In the case of this child, the student was bringing black market candy to school. If it had been announced that nobody should do this and why, it would probably have happened anyway, but at least the honor student wouldn't have bought it.

Although ignorance is no excuse, refusing to explain things is even less of an excuse.

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