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A few weeks ago, we heard about a child being disciplined for eating lunch with a spoon, instead of a fork and knife. Continuing the trend of what seems to be huge overreactions, a student in a Virginia school was suspended for taking a cookie. Jeremy Maitland, an 8th grader, was filling up a water cooler after his team's baseball practice and saw that someone had knocked over a container of cookies near the fountain. He picked them up, putting them back into their container, and ate one as he did so (the 5 second rule in action!). The cookies, as it turned out, belonged to a teacher and the boy was suspended for violating the school's no-theft policy. He was also kicked off the baseball team.
Making the situation even stranger is the fact that another child was suspended, as well. Convicted of cookie conspiracy? It doesn't appear that anyone else consumed any cookies, though a superintendent said that the punishment was reasonable under the circumstances.
One would assume that if there was a valid reason for this boy's suspension, like a fight or the theft of a non-baked good, that it would have been cited as the reason for the discipline, not eating a cookie.
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6-06-2006 @12:17PM Hawk said... Without more information, this is Such Bull Shit. Can I say that word? Not as in fake, but so assinine it needs a strong, immediate reaction.
Zero Tolerance is not a good idea. Why is it not a good idea? Use your brain for more than getting scared at the television and you'll find out.
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6-06-2006 @1:05PM Jill said... I'm sure this child learned a lesson...the next time you see something that needs to be picked up, helped or assisted in any manner...be it a cookie or a person...walk on by. As the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.
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6-06-2006 @2:39PM Trixie said... Les Miserables anyone...? Being thrown into jail for life over a loaf of BREAD?!?! And besides.. it's a kid... kids=cookies. Instead of mentioning that while the kids was doing a GOOD thing by picking up cookies that HE knocked over, and maybe just mentioning (not punishing.. and overly punishing in this case) that taking something isn't yours isn't good... kicking him off the baseball team and suspending him... OVER A COOKIE?!?!?! c'mon...
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6-06-2006 @5:35PM Brian said... Don't forget the girl who got suspended for sharing Jolt Gum:
http://candyaddict.com/blog/2006/05/29/student-suspended-for-sharing-caffeinated-gum/
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