From this story.
Apparently, an eight-year old student in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana was suspended for bring Jello Cups from home. The reason? They look like a drug. :rolleyes:
As James Taranto, of the Wall Street Journal points out:
(As an aside, maybe I’m just very naive – but what drug resembles Jello?)
Zev Steinhardt
Ugh. Why do we replace common sense with zero tolerance?
Oh, and have a festive Chanuka, zev.
My question as well, zev- what the hell are they talking about? I’m only 37 and thought I was pretty hip, but I have never seen a drug that looked like a Jell-O cup (and I have seen just about everything, or so I thought…).
Jell-O shots maybe.
Hence the drinking fountain/vodka reference.
OK, I found it (I think). Some booze company is marketing “Jello shots.” Stupid.
It appears from the story they might have thought it was a Jello Shot . . . ? I’m fairly experienced in both arenas and the only thing I could come up with is the alcohol thing.
As a side note: maybe someone is being intelligent for once and calling alcohol what it is . . . a drug.
:rolleyes:
It’s certainly possible, but probably not for such a young kid. I remember when I was in high school, someone in my world history class was drinking a Dasani bottle with vodka in it (as he was telling everyone it was). I smelled the bottle and yeah, it was vodka. I told my then-girlfriend about it as anecdote and she forced me to report it or she’d do it for me. Apparently, not only did they discover vodka in his locker, but about a year’s worth of weed, which he was selling to the Elementary School across the street (luckily, he hadn’t gotten the chance yet).
But yeah, I agree Jello Cups are a little far. Unless there were any reason to suspect it (i.e., it smells odd), then they’re freaking out over nothing.
Wow, and I thought things were bad when I was in high school back in the mid-90’s.
I weep for my unborn children and the world they will grow up in.
OK, OK. I’ve never heard of Jello shots. (I am pretty naive about drugs and such).
But what next? Ban powdered donuts because the confectioner’s sugar resembles a drug?
Zev Steinhardt
Looks that way:
Just another way for adults to absolve themselves of any rational thinking whatsoever.
Zero-tolerance rules can hamstring an administration. Even if they know it’s stupid, it’s policy and they are not allowed to circumvent it by themselves.
It is idiocy.
Thank the school board, this is their baby.
A ‘look-alike’ drug?
Jell-O markets the damn little, one serving cups, specifically to be packed in lunches.
This is fucking ridiculous already.
I’m sure the problem was that it was homemade, cat.
Jello made with vodka, usually in small cups. It doesn’t taste much like alcohol and you can get wasted really, really fast.
Yeah, bad on them for trying to save some money and make their own Jell-O cups and not spend the outrageous prices for the prepackaged ones.
I no longer think society is headed for a nosedive. I think the nosedive has already begun.
Are you kidding? That nose is broken and bleeding.
It’s a conspiracty by Jello brand gelatin. See, if moms are allowed to make cheapie jello and just put it in any old container, Jello could go broke from the losses on their fancy schmancy cost four times as much, hermetically sealed “Jello Cups”.
Too bad they didn’t include a picture of the so called “look alike” drug. What? Did the mom pack it in a shot glass or something?
Good God, I hope she throws an unholy screaming fit and goes all postal on the school baord and all concerned, how ridiculous. Sounds like SOmeONe, has way too much time on their hands.
HUGE GIGANTO rollie eyes…
“The girl told the principal that her mother, who works in a bar, makes alcoholic shots at home and sells them at work. The fourth-grader said her mother had instructed her to take the shots to school and sell them, three for $1, to make some money for Christmas, Nowakowski said.”
Well, in that case BOOOOO on the story in the OP for doing such a crappy reporting job. Still, suspended? An 8 year old?
Okay, see, that makes sense. That’s a wholly warranted suspension. I’m no longer depressed about the state of our schools.
Now I’m depressed by the state of our news media.