Student Suspended for Eating Staff Member's Cookie

[rack'm]

DoWhat, what say you........??

 

[nomoney]

effin hoodlum

 

[SmallTown]

I received a day of in school detention while in middle school for eating a marshmellow. We were baking cookies (yes, it was a REQUIRED class!) and I ate a couple marshmellows while making the cookies. The teacher saw, went off on me for stealing, and was sent to the principal's office.

 

[vraiblonde]

I received a day of in school detention while in middle school for eating a marshmellow. We were baking cookies (yes, it was a REQUIRED class!) and I ate a couple marshmellows while making the cookies. The teacher saw, went off on me for stealing, and was sent to the principal's office.

Our Home Ec teacher always got extra of anything snitchable (chocolate chips, marshmallows, killer peanuts, etc) because she knew we'd munch on them and wouldn't have enough for whatever we were making.

 

[meangirl]

I'm sure he's learned a very valuable lesson. Next time, LIE!

 

[kwillia]

Our Home Ec teacher always got extra of anything snitchable (chocolate chips, marshmallows, killer peanuts, etc) because she knew we'd munch on them and wouldn't have enough for whatever we were making.

Yeah, but that's how nomo got started and look at her today...

 

[rack'm]

Our Home Ec teacher always got extra of anything snitchable (chocolate chips, marshmallows, killer peanuts, etc) because she knew we'd munch on them and wouldn't have enough for whatever we were making.

We used to add..."stuff"....to the cookies we made, knowing that the teachers would be eating it later.

 

[nomoney]

Yeah, but that's how nomo got started and look at her today...

you're either calling me fat or a thief...I'm not sure.....



but either way

 

[kwillia]

you're either calling me fat or a thief...I'm not sure.....



but either way

Neither... I'm simply referring to your habit of "borrowing"... yeah... that's it... borrowing.

 

[LexiGirl75]

I am 50/50 on this. Teachers did/do make big stinks out of things that could be easily dismissed. However, you let one off you let them all off. And stealing a laptop warrants far more than a day of suspension.

 

[nomoney]

I am 50/50 on this. Teachers did/do make big stinks out of things that could be easily dismissed. However, you let one off you let them all off. And stealing a laptop warrants far more than a day of suspension.

I feel the punishment should fit the crime. And kicking the kid off the ball team for eating a cookie is stupid. "hey, lets take away an after school activity that is probably keeping him busy and out of trouble for stealing a cookie"

 

[rack'm]

Suspension For Cookie Theft Upheld

RICHMOND, Va. -- Henrico County school officials have upheld an eighth-grader's one-day suspension for eating a stolen cookie.

Superintendent Fred Morton IV said he can't discuss specifics of the case because of student privacy laws, but he said there's more to it than just eating someone else's cookie.

Caryl Maitland said her son, Jeremy, told school officials that someone knocked over a cookie jar in the Hungary Creek Middle School kitchen and he ate one of the cookies as he picked them up. She said the family received a letter from the assistant principal telling them the cookies were a staff member's personal food. Jeremy was disciplined under the school's theft code.

The boy's mother said she believes he should be punished, but that suspension is going too far.

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