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I when to a Vocational School the last three years of HS for half the day every day and we had a fracking coffee pot in class! Not to mention all the candy and mountain dew from the school store. Oh and the Pizzas from the bakery.

I remember the Gym teacher put candy in ballots then attached them to targets for Archery.

Yea we got to train with weapons in my school! Plus we had the Cross Country Skiing and the Under Sea Combat Course (Swim Class)!

Combat training with sugary candy as a reward! Wheatland-Chili HS must seem like an Al Qaeda Traning camp to thease people. :rock:

The school was out of line.

1. The Texas State law does not apply to foods brought into the school, only the food provided by the school

2. The reason the school punished Leighann Adair with a week in school detention, not suspension as fox reported, was because other students' who have been in violation of the policy received lesser punishments and the school decided that a more harsh punishment was warranted.

a. Where was the out cry when the other students were punished for violating the policy.

b. It is rather unfair to punish one person more harshly for a first offense when other first offenders received lesser punishments.

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Brazos Elementary Principal Jeanne Young, said the problem, in this instance, was that the candy was provided by another student – not the girl’s parents.

I don't understand how this can be important.

Another example of schools overstepping their authority. It is time the parents of the students in these schools start making the effort to get these policies changed.

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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1389228)

The school was out of line.

I completely agree with that. However:

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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1389228)

1. The Texas State law does not apply to foods brought into the school, only the food provided by the school
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Another example of schools overstepping their authority...

The school appears to have a rule about no gum and no candy. This is a punishment for violation of a school rule, not state law.

I find the punishment given to the two students involved to be quite harsh, and the school should rethink that policy. But if the students violated the rules that the school has set, they should face punishment.

Personally, I think a fitting punishment would be to spend recess scrapping gum off the bottom of desks.

Furthermore, if your points 2, 2a, and 2b are correct, then the school needs to look into enforcing it's rules consistently, as well.