My old roommates and I did this often enough that we had to stop putting soda in the beer fridge.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9445255
whoops-a-daisy!
Zero Tollerance rocks!
That’s dumb. He basically got suspended for giving his teacher a free beer.
I don’t get it. He turned it in to the teacher - it’s not like he was trying to get away with it. He could have shotgunned it in the bathroom and had a small chance of getting caught. I’m OK with teaching that actions have consequences, even mistakes, but three day suspension and two months of alternative school? Pretty over the top if it really was a mistake.
Now if they had caught him shotgunning it in the bathroom, that’s another matter.
Yeah, I think the punishment is a little out of proportion.
Typical. Now the young man will be distrustful of the authorities. Better to learn it now than later.
heh he would have been better off just setting it on the floor in the hall… where anyone could drink it. vs actually turning it in.
I believe the issue was that his teacher is in his father’s brew club. No blue mountains allowed! If it had been a chimay? No problem
Seems like an honest mistake…turned into a real big deal. Whooops!
Funny protest from the students could include all of them bringing a can of beer into school and giving it to their teacher first hour. Whole school to the alternative school for 60 days.
Sadly, this would require somebody to give/sell them beer illegally. That person would probably go to jail.
My first thought was maybe the kid didn’t have a clean record before this incident…
If a teacher came to work drunk, but turned themself in before getting caught, admitting the mistake… would they be disciplined? I don’t know, I’m not a teacher, just curious if anyone knows…
Actually, this happened recently someplace else in texas. Teacher was drinking in the classroom and the kids turned her in.
Most union shops have some kind of “admit it before you’re caught” substance abuse language. But I don’t know about teachers.
Reminds me. In the late 70s I had an older than dirt English teacher who liked her coffee nudges. She got caught and retired when someone super glued her thermos to her desk.
Ummm, yeah. I’m pretty sure that would be a big problem. I’m not willing to test it out for you though!
To be honest, kind of my first thought too. I was thinking - yeah sure Mom, you’re kids completely innocent. Hard to tell what the situation really is from a news story, even though we’re all experts now after reading it on the internet. ;D
To me it reads completely different: I’m fairly sure his naivete demonstrates a lack of prior incidents.
Everyone knows all children are demonic. As soon as they start to exhibit symptoms they must be severely punished. Why do you think the nuns carried rulers on their rosary belts? To beat the hell out of you, of course. ;D
All kidding aside, the teacher needed to keep their job. The superintendent needed to keep their job. The school board and the state are constantly gunning for their jobs. Everyone only did what they had to do to stay employed. No one really cared if the kid had a beer. The new way of education in the US. No child left behind by redefining success.
Paul