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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mini D on March 13, 2008, 09:07:06 AM
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...of skittles. A candy deal went bad:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/skittles.suspension.ap/index.html
I am in awe of the prowess of the education system and it's concern for children at all costs.
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Well, this bright young many just learned a good lesson that in life -- you'll often be under the dominion of morons. Life is not always fair, and often doesn't make sense and people don't much care if it does or not, because them's the rules and I get off work in two hours.
Charon
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Actually, the lesson is much bigger than what the kid learned.
Candy was banned. A rule created for completely arbitrary non-legal reasons.
Kids start dealing candy.
A school is willing to trash a kid's transcript because he was in possession of candy.
I dunno, but the more I read the more fascinating this one became. Should a school be soooo concerned about a child's welfare that they ban him from absolutely everything they deem harmfull? I'm all for following the rules, but am somewhat miffed at the reasoning behind this and the reaction to it.
I think back to the movie "Christmas Story" and the scene where the kids all have the fake teeth. The teacher confiscates them and puts them in the drawer with all the other crap she's confiscated from them over the year. Whomever caught this individual buying candy had a perfect opportunity to score some skittles but opted to pursue a much more damaging course of action.
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Well, this bright young many just learned a good lesson that in life -- you'll often be under the dominion of morons. Life is not always fair, and often doesn't make sense and people don't much care if it does or not, because them's the rules and I get off work in two hours.
Charon
Very well said Charon, many morons all agreeing on a topic still doesn't make the topic right! :rock
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Actually, the lesson is much bigger than what the kid learned.
Candy was banned. A rule created for completely arbitrary non-legal reasons.
Kids start dealing candy.
A school is willing to trash a kid's transcript because he was in possession of candy.
I dunno, but the more I read the more fascinating this one became. Should a school be soooo concerned about a child's welfare that they ban him from absolutely everything they deem harmfull? I'm all for following the rules, but am somewhat miffed at the reasoning behind this and the reaction to it.
It's kind of like the big stink about video games. Some(grand theft auto), I agree are completely useless and quite harmful, yet others have been proven to educate, and even improve physical skills. Some day, video games will be the best teachers we have.(In the Matrix movie, they just downloaded knowlege)Now I'm not willing to go that far, but in the future, the best way to learn something will be to interact with it virtually, then test in reality.
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We had rules against eating in class when I was in high school. Anyone caught had to throw away what they were eating. I do not recall a single suspension over it the whole time I was in school. This is akin to jail time for a speeding ticket.
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Maybe its this huge a penalty is what it takes for a kid to realize breaking the rules have consequences? I don't know. We have a pretty soft generation and it seems to take some extreme measures to make things sink in at times.
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Social behavior should be dictated on a more social level and less on an administrative level. I think you need to take a deeper look at exactly what this is telling children.
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I remember when I was in high school, a bunch of kids started selling candy bars and stuff to make extra money. I think they got the idea from the "official" school candy selling drives.
Anyway, it got kind of out of hand.
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Theres no way to justify possible ruining the rest of this kids life over buying a bag of Skittles. If they had stuck with the punishment he was given it could have been very harmful to his chances of getting into a good college, because for one he would have a suspension on his record, and secondly he was removed from his position of class vice president.
When I was in high school on each floor during the passing period a teacher would be standing in the hallway selling candy.
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Wat ever happened to COMMON SENSE???? The priciple of that schools needs to have his butt dragged out behind the gym and the crap knocked out of him.
News flash.....kids eat candy. Oh it's against the rules to have candy in school, well take it away from him and be done with it.
I swear if some teacher or principle ever tried something like that with my kids I'll have their arse.
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This is what happens when you create prohibition.
Skittles is the new gateway drug.
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This is what happens when you create prohibition.
Skittles is the new gateway drug.
thats what happens when a law is passed.
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Maybe its this huge a penalty is what it takes for a kid to realize breaking the rules have consequences? I don't know. We have a pretty soft generation and it seems to take some extreme measures to make things sink in at times.
consequences? 3 day suspension over a bag of skittles? On one hand, I understand the policy, but a 3 day suspension is a level 3 offence or higher in our district. Give the kid a choice between 3 licks or one day of in-school suspension.
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Maybe its this huge a penalty is what it takes for a kid to realize breaking the rules have consequences? I don't know. We have a pretty soft generation and it seems to take some extreme measures to make things sink in at times.
Screw that. Again you attach morality to legality. Rarely are they one and the same.
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What a load of red tape... Just confiscate the candy and put a bad mark on his report card.
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there are too many idiots making too many rules.
"land of the free and home of the brave" are just words to some song they play before the "big" game.
wellcome to the United Nanny States of America.
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Shouldn't that be the USSA?
Papers please...
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What next? Teenage girls exchaning sexual favours for M&Ms?
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Bah, teenage girls were trading sexual favours back when I was at school.
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Quite a freedom you got there. Over here we have candy and soda automats at school. Nobody could care less if kids would be selling candy to each other. Of course there's limits to WHEN it's acceptable to munch candy, but violating the rule is not punishable by suspension.
Suspending even for half a day for having candy or selling it to other student is stupid. OF COURSE kids do have candy and they will have it even if they'd be thrown to jail for it.
...or are they trying to teach the students how to sell crack under the scope? That could come handy in the future; Once you get out of school you're already a fully qualified crack dealer who knows all the tricks.
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Lol... surprised the kid didn't get his gun from his locker.
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consequences? 3 day suspension over a bag of skittles? On one hand, I understand the policy, but a 3 day suspension is a level 3 offence or higher in our district. Give the kid a choice between 3 licks or one day of in-school suspension.
Y'all still give licks? Would be nice if they did that here.
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LMAO. In HS, we had a single vending machine. The slot in which the 3 Musketeers bars were in was malfunctioning all of the time. I'd put $.35 in and get the whole row of bars. I'd sell em for $.35 to my buddies and did it for 5 months. We'd often tell anyone who would listen that the slot was broken as you'd put in the money and get the whole row.
Then, a teacher approached me about charges. I said "Go for it, Please I implore you to do that. We've told the Principal, various teachers, custodians and they ignored us." Never heard from anyone again. The slot was fixed shortly thereafter.
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Its better the kid learns to pick and choose what rules he feels like following...that way, he'll be all set for adulthood
Tronsky
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When you buy Skittles, you're supporting terrorism.
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Its better the kid learns to pick and choose what rules he feels like following...that way, he'll be all set for adulthood
Tronsky
I agree. A regular part of my adulthood has been spent pushing the limits of or working around stupid pointless rules. I don't think I'm alone in that.