Suspended for candy
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From: Langhorne, PA
I hope the kid throws eggs the Principals car on mischief night. I know that is what I would do.
The school has a point, too many fat twirps (a.k.a. pre-diabetic obese adolescents) around these days.
As usual the school administration got it wrong...a suspension, that means one day off that the kid will use at home to sit in front of the computer or video game console while he eats a gallon of mint choco chip ice cream.
What the school should have done is put the two guilty kids on the bleachers after school, and have them watch as the entire class has to endure 2 hours straight of detention calisthenics.
Nothing like good old peer pressure to straighten out a punk.
The school has a point, too many fat twirps (a.k.a. pre-diabetic obese adolescents) around these days.
As usual the school administration got it wrong...a suspension, that means one day off that the kid will use at home to sit in front of the computer or video game console while he eats a gallon of mint choco chip ice cream.
What the school should have done is put the two guilty kids on the bleachers after school, and have them watch as the entire class has to endure 2 hours straight of detention calisthenics.
Nothing like good old peer pressure to straighten out a punk.
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Originally Posted by FTE Ken
This helps to reinforce my belief that if someone has the financial means to take their children out of government schools and don't, they're guilty of child neglect.
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When I was in school I used to stop in at the general store on the way to school and buy a bag of individually wrapped candy. The general store would buy this candy in bulk and put 12 in each sandwich bag and sale the bag for a quarter. I sold the candy like hotcakes for a quarter a piece. Everyone knew they were a quarter a bag but they payed anyway because they rode the bus and could not stop at the store. I should have been expelled if this kid got suspended.
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I thought of this after posting on the home schooling post on the Club Members thread. I spend time as a volunteer at a public school & have around different public schools. My wife is a teacher. One thing I see in public schools is the more parents are involved as volunteers, PTO, or just involved with their children's education the better the education children get. Things like this don't happen at schools were parents are involved. Here in Arizona the public schools invite parents to get involved, A parent who is a licensed teacher but has chosen to be a stay at home Mom comes into my wife's room & teaches spelling with my wife. Her girl is in the class. The school has a welcome mat out for any parent that wants to get involved in anyway. As a result this school is one of the best in the area. I have been in public schools were the parents could give a crap they expect the school to baby sit their children.
So Parents quit bashing Public Schools they are a direct reflection of how much parents CARE. I see it very clearly.
So Parents quit bashing Public Schools they are a direct reflection of how much parents CARE. I see it very clearly.
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Originally Posted by 70blue
Straighten out what punk? This was an honor student who got suspended over a bag of candy.
However, I knew plenty of punks that were honor students. I was one of them.
We had anti-social kids, vandals, drug-using kids, nerds, jocks, bullies, and otherwise normal average kids on our honor rolls.
Good grades alone do not mean anything.
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just yet more reason why my kid will never step foot inside a public school.
skittles because of a no candy policy? who is the school to dictate to someone what they can and can not eat?
if i want my kid to have a bag of candy, that is his/her right and my right as my kids parent to let them have it.
it is not my problme that other parents are too lazy to cook anything other than a fattening microwave meal or buy mcdonalds all the time. and it is not my problem other kids are too freakin lazy to do something other than play video games.
schools? they should not even be called that anymore.
skittles because of a no candy policy? who is the school to dictate to someone what they can and can not eat?
if i want my kid to have a bag of candy, that is his/her right and my right as my kids parent to let them have it.
it is not my problme that other parents are too lazy to cook anything other than a fattening microwave meal or buy mcdonalds all the time. and it is not my problem other kids are too freakin lazy to do something other than play video games.
schools? they should not even be called that anymore.
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Originally Posted by thorseshoeing
Everyone knows that Skittles is a gateway candy...I've lost many friends because they went down that path...It always starts out innocently enough, popping some Skittles between classes...and the next thing you know they're in a dark alley somewhere giving hand-jobs for a Kit-Kat...
Tim
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Here the school boards generally prohibit the school from selling junk food. The schools do not dictate what students eat or bring to school. That is up to the parents and the students. The rules are intended to prevent schools from installing vending machines that sell junk food parents might not approve of for their children.
Leave it to big brother to turn the rule on it's head. They should have dealt with the child who sold the candy by taking it away until the end of the day. Not taken it upon themselves to punish children for eating candy.
Leave it to big brother to turn the rule on it's head. They should have dealt with the child who sold the candy by taking it away until the end of the day. Not taken it upon themselves to punish children for eating candy.
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in my opinion schools have over stepped their bounds in many different areas.
schools should be for teaching. that is it. this social institution they have been made into is ridiculous. schools should not be for rasing kids, baby sitting kids, feeding kids, this for kids,. that for kids. reading, writing, math, social studies, etc.. that should be all that is going on.
but what am i saying, they are starting to hand out birth control now days.
schools should be for teaching. that is it. this social institution they have been made into is ridiculous. schools should not be for rasing kids, baby sitting kids, feeding kids, this for kids,. that for kids. reading, writing, math, social studies, etc.. that should be all that is going on.
but what am i saying, they are starting to hand out birth control now days.
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Originally Posted by kermmydog
I thought of this after posting on the home schooling post on the Club Members thread. I spend time as a volunteer at a public school & have around different public schools. My wife is a teacher. One thing I see in public schools is the more parents are involved as volunteers, PTO, or just involved with their children's education the better the education children get. Things like this don't happen at schools were parents are involved. Here in Arizona the public schools invite parents to get involved, A parent who is a licensed teacher but has chosen to be a stay at home Mom comes into my wife's room & teaches spelling with my wife. Her girl is in the class. The school has a welcome mat out for any parent that wants to get involved in anyway. As a result this school is one of the best in the area. I have been in public schools were the parents could give a crap they expect the school to baby sit their children.
So Parents quit bashing Public Schools they are a direct reflection of how much parents CARE. I see it very clearly.
So Parents quit bashing Public Schools they are a direct reflection of how much parents CARE. I see it very clearly.
Sounds like you are involved with a pretty good school system.
I have been involved in schools in several states over a long period of time and I can tell you on good authority that they are not all good. And it is not common for them to welcome parent participation on a day to day basis. In many schools, they are very guarded and in some cases arrogant.
There is no generalizing about public schools because they vary a lot from place to place and change over time. One gereralization that is fairly accurate is that the larger the system the worse they get and the harder to change.
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I used to get caught smoking in school all the time when I was in High School. I'd just get 30 minutes of detention after school. It was worth it because that would be the only time that I would do my homework. Also, on my way to detention I would usually stop for a smoke on the way there.
This wasn't ancient history either. I was in high school from '89 to '93.
This wasn't ancient history either. I was in high school from '89 to '93.
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Originally Posted by preppypyro
What happened to the detention after school, or during dinner time? I didn't get a chance to go through the smacks, and straps in school, but I did spend alot of my noon hours in the detention room.
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