Did you know that robbing a Smoothie King will get you a slap on the wrist, but eating a cookie gets you suspended and kicked off the baseball team?
Caryl Maitland says 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.
Oh my God, it's like he stole a CAR! That delinquent!
[Superintendent] Morton said he would not support suspending a student just for eating someone else's cookie. "It wasn't just about a cookie," Morton tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "I can't be any plainer than that."
"It wasn't just about a cookie?" Then what was it about? They really had it in for this kid; the "explanation" makes no sense at all. (Is "plainer" even a word? I don't think so. Shouldn't the superintendent of education be able to speak English?)
The punishment doesn't fit the crime. Have the kid bake some cookies and replenish the cookie jar. Have him organize a bake sale. Whatever. But suspension? No way. Granted, we don't know the whole story, but to be suspended over a cookie is stupid.
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Yikes. Evidently Montgomery County isn't the only school system out there which can't define common sense. So, as a public service:
common sense, n. Sound judgement not based on specialized knowledge; native good judgement.
(Source: American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.)
Now can we PLEASE see some sanity in school sports? Sheesh!
Hey man, its about values. Stealing cookies that recently fell on the floor and eating them *following the 5 second ground/dirt count* only leads to other crimes. This is a perfect example of a gateway crime. Cookies this morning, carjackings this afternoon, declare global jihad tomorrow. You don't believe me...ask Bin Laden. We will all be happier knowing that our fine school system disciplines the rule breakers because I can't get taxed anymore for housing and feeding convicts.
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