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An 8th-grader at a Connecticut middle school was suspended for three days for buying something from a classmate. What did he buy, you want to know? It was terrible, certainly. Something illegal? Immoral? Cocaine, alcohol, angel dust, Playboy?Oh no, much worse than that. Michael Sheridan bought…Skittles.
Yes, your monitor is working. All candy sales were banned at Sheridan Communication and Technologies Middle School. For buying a bag of Skittles, Michael—who is an honors student, class vice president, and has never even had a detention—has been suspended, stripped of his title as class VP, and barred from attending all honors classes.
I personally think it’s a dumb idea to ban all candy sales in schools. Having once been a school-age kid myself, I can vouch for their ability to find candy anywhere if they want to badly enough. But this school did suspend candy sales, and Michael Sheridan transgressed those bounds. But honestly, isn’t all this hoopla just a small overreaction?
I’m not saying Michael shouldn’t have been reprimanded. But the school staff should consider what they would do if a kid actually did buy something harmful. For buying Skittles, they came down on this kid like a ton of bricks. If he’d committed a more serious offense, what else could they have done to him?
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