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Jolt Gum has 45 mg of caffeine per serving. For comparison, consider that a Hershey's chocolate bar has 9 mg of caffeine and a 12-oz. Coke has 34 mg (Diet Coke has 45mg).
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6-07-2006 @8:13AM Brad said... Weak excuse. Very, very weak! I wish education would spend more time worrying about education, than what some kid is chewing in class. Maybe this principle needs a wake up call.
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6-07-2006 @12:31PM Hawk said... Once again, time for my Completely Unreasonable Administrative Bullshit comment to come out.
Stimulant with no redeeming value, huh? what about BLACK FREAKIN' COFFEE? I bet the person who doled that punishment out had had their 5 cups of coffee already that day.
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6-07-2006 @5:39PM Mike said... Yeah, this is nuts. But then, so is their ban on all stimulants. It's not clear in the Candy Addict article, but if they also prohibit caffeinated drinks to be brought in your lunchbag, then the gum issue would be consistent. Funny, it would have got you in trouble in my (private) high school as well. Not for the caffeine, but since gum wasn't allowed at school.
If the school prohibits students from bringing in caffeinated beverages, then the student had to know that the gum wasn't going to be allowed either.
It just sounds like the Burrell School District took this whole "zero tolerance policy on drugs" thing Way, Way too far.
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6-15-2006 @1:43AM Fiss said... Jolt is the life-blood. I'd simply move my kids out of a school that was so anal about food that they ban it.
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