Here’s a crime alert for all 8th graders: If you buy Skittles in Connecticut schools, you might lose everything. It’s a scandal, I tell you — a SCANDAL.

From Consumer Freedom:

What does it take for a school to suspend an eighth-grader, bar his attendance from an honors dinner, and strip him of his post as class Vice President? If you guessed drugs, alcohol, or a firearm, think again. A bag of candy is reason enough. This week, a Connecticut school levied these very punishments on an honor student with no history of misconduct, just for buying a bag of Skittles from his classmate. School officials are hiding behind their “Wellness Policy”—which prohibits bake sales, classroom pizza parties, and the sale of candy—as justification for the harsh disciplinary action.

As the parent of a Skittle-eating 8th grade honor student who does not hold class office, I object to the Wellness police suspending this student and stripping him of his honors for daring to buy a bag of candy from a friend. Let’s see if we can figure out the message this young man received…

All of your hard work to meet our learning objectives and to demonstrate current and future leadership qualities means nothing, because you did not respect YOUR body enough to keep that nasty sugar out of it.

What crack are those Connecticut school officials smoking? Speaking of smoking, I predicted this would happen when they finished with the tobacco companies and moved on to ‘wellness report cards’. My amazingly fit daughter who dances eight hours or more per week has a broken finger to show for the California fitness initiatives. Thanks a whole heap, California. Still, California doesn’t measure up to Connecticut or some other states, who are convinced that the pathway to wellness can only be forged by suspending achieving students for daring to eat a Skittle.

Thank God it wasn’t a Hershey bar. I’ll bet he’d have been expelled. An apology is in order from school officials, who have mistakenly confused this boy’s Skittles with their crack pipes.

(via BoingBoing)

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