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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