Student Suspended for buying Skittles

[HAcoreRD]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/200 ... candy.wfsb

I hate America now. I hate Connecticut even more so. Wellness policy, fuck you. The interview also has the kid mention the kid selling candy was "shady". Great, buying candy, or buying drugs?

[BerenTebogo]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/03/13/suspended.buy.candy.wfsb

I hate America now. I hate Connecticut even more so. Wellness policy, fuck you. The interview also has the kid mention the kid selling candy was "shady". Great, buying candy, or buying drugs?

Fucking hate people lol

[Kurp]

This makes CNN now? It's just some dumb local school policy, this shit happens all over.

The only thing I really got out of that was the reporter's 'peanuts' sounds like 'penis.'

[Acturus]

When I was in the fifth grade, a girl in my class had an awesome colored pencil set that would draw on skin. She was a bit of an artist, so she, along with the help of myself and another person, started charging other students for "tattoos" on their arms, legs, or face. We lasted about 4 days and made about $20 ($0.50 a pop) before the teacher caught us. It was all confiscated under the premise that students are not allowed to solicit anything to other students without the school's permission. We were told we could have been sent to the principal's office, but we wouldn't. Lesson learned.

Why this purchasing-student got suspended? I don't know, but I doubt it should have happened, especially if it was a first offense.

Why did CNN.com report this? Because it's a friggin' dot-com site, and they need any little bit that they can get. You can see the attempts at sensationalism by referring the kid as an "honors student." They're trying to paint (no pun intended) the school as monsterous or overreacting for a bit of press.

Did this make any of the telecasts? I highly doubt it.

More specifically, I wonder if the shady skittles salesman punked on Mr. Honor's Student. Sold him a bag, then reported him for buying.

Friggin' narcs!

[Osede]

wtf lol

[Noobta]

>_>...Totally not my state

[Creeps]

That was the stupidest shit I have ever read in my entire life

[pirahna1]

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND!!!!

BUT FUCKING KICK EM OUT IF THEY'RE HUNGRY FOR SOME SKITTLES, SKITTLES ARE THE BEBIL!!!!

Jesus fucking christ, that school needs to be razed to the ground.

[Mizango]

wtf lol

[Misterjingles]

TASTE THE RAINBOW.

Well, gotta get them early, the kid was bound to do something stupid anyway, might as well get them now.

[Cail]

>_>...Totally not my state

[Tricen]

Schools have always kept an eye out (well, schools I have been in) for students selling things. I remember back in middle school when people would sell their pokemon or DBZ cards to other kids, and they eventually got bant. I had my cards taken away from me in the 5th grade and I actually cried. (If that's not sad, Idk what is.) I had like some super rare card thing, idr. Suspending if it's a repeat thing, yeah, but not if it's a one time thing. Hell, I sold a brownie to a teacher once for 50cents.

[Melena]

and to think i got away with selling my typing/keyboarding assignments at school without getting caught. Easiest $200 bucks i ever made.

[Khamsin]

Why is selling (legal) things disallowed in schools, anyway? Is it just soliciting that's not allowed, or can a student who knows that another student has something buy it without solicitation? What's the problem with a little free market capitalism in schools these days? There's some good money that stands to be made, especially if your customer is naive.

[Kiro]

A friend and I in 7th/8th grade used to draw DBZ characters on the back of any shirt a kid would bring us to draw on at $10 a pop. We made an insane amount of money for junior high students, but we never got in trouble for it.

[Tricen]

Why is selling (legal) things disallowed in schools, anyway? Is it just soliciting that's not allowed, or can a student who knows that another student has something buy it without solicitation? What's the problem with a little free market capitalism in schools these days? There's some good money that stands to be made, especially if your customer is naive.

School policy, safety issues with the food part. Hard to say, maybe it could get out of hand and become some kind of underground hardcore school smuggling.

[Correction]

It's much simpler than that. When I was in High School we used to buy big packs of Capri Sun and Muffins from CostCo and sell them at good margin in the mornings out of one of the offices. The Principal caught wind of our operation and forced us underground because the competition with the administration-sanctioned Student Store (that also sold things like P.E. uniforms and pencils) was devastating those profits and taking money away from his pet projects in the school.

I wonder if that school is one of the ones with contracts with Yum Brands/PepsiCo to also supply junk food on campus.

[Tricen]

It's much simpler than that. When I was in High School we used to buy big packs of Capri Sun and Muffins from CostCo and sell them at good margin in the mornings out of one of the offices. The Principal caught wind of our operation and forced us underground because the competition with the administration-sanctioned Student Store (that also sold things like P.E. uniforms and pencils) was devastating those profits and taking money away from his pet projects in the school.

I wonder if that school is one of the ones with contracts with Yum Brands/PepsiCo to also supply junk food on campus.

My old (fucking shitty dump) high school used to have a student store, but they had to take all the non-nutritious items out ever since the school board thing (the big guys of the state) passed some ant-obesity shit. Yet they served the most vile, malnutritious shit ever. The nachos gave me anal leakage

[Ryushii]

Why does our country waste so much time on piece of shit legislation like this?

[Aerin]

How pathetic.