Jules....put the Nutter Butter DOWN!!!

[Reephdweller]

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - A sixth-grader was suspended after school officials accused him of threatening to expose a highly allergic teacher to peanut butter cookies, the boy's father said Thursday.

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The father said Jules was carrying a snack packet of Nutter Butter cookies and did make a comment about having "something dangerous" but never said he had a weapon.


Full story.... (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040422/ap_on_re_us/cookie_suspension_1)


This is just crazy to suspend a kid over cookies. You could even say it's NUTS!!!

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[Reephdweller]

I'm surprised that no one has a comment on the fact that a kid was suspended basically because he brought a cookie to school.

As crazy as Columbine was, this whole attempt from the various school systems around the country to nip every little problem child in the bud and act like negative comments, or negative things written on paper and whatnot are all the seeds of the next Columbine are just silly to me.

I don't want kids killing other kids (or anyone killing kids), but I think when we get so crazy that we cannot make the distinction between an unhappy child and a murderous child we have serious problems. In the case of this story, while somewhat humorous it strikes me odd that there's no in-between level of dealing with kids other than to suspend them and publically embarass them.

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[sr71blackbird]

I guess they want to make a point that if kids try and say they have "something dangerous" in their pocket or whatever and they use the phrase in a way that makes people think it is a serious threat, they dont want to have kids thinking that it is ok to do it even as a joke. Granted its just a cookie, but they are trying to get it out of their heads that threats wont be tolerated. Now dont anyone give me the "freedom of speech" line, because any threat, even if it is a fake threat, still has the potential to cause harm, when it's issuance goes unpunished. By that I mean that if a kid says he will do a bad thing to someone else, and no one intervenes, or if it is found that the intent was to simply put a "kick me" sticker on the other kids back, the school has the obligation to take action so that in the future if another kid says he will harm someone and they dont do something about it because they thought it was a prank and something horrible happens as a result, the district or school or whatever will be held accountable. The kid here was just suspended, it isnt like he was put in jail or anything. To me it is just sending a message to the other kids that any threat will not be tolerated. I agree with that.

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