This is just WRONG (part II, real stuff)

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WTF???




Ninth Grader Punished For Taking 40-Cent Lunch

GALLATIN, Tenn. - A Sumner County ninth grader is charged with theft and sent before a judge for taking a 40-cent lunch without paying.

Krista Goetleuck thinks her son's school went way too far. She said her son is not a troublemaker, he was just hungry.

"Our last hospitalization was $78,000," said Goetleuck, who moved to Nashville a few months ago.

She said her youngest child has had brain surgery.

With a family of six and a sick child, every penny counts for her family, Goetleuck said.

She said her 15-year-old son John Riker receives a reduced lunch at Gallatin's Station Camp High School. One day during the last semester, she forgot to give him 40 cents for lunch.

"He was hungry so he went through the lunch line and didn't pay and the SRO (school resource officer) charged him with theft for a 40-cent lunch," Goetleuck said.

John received a three-day in-school suspension and a court date.

"He was humiliated," Goetleuck said. "He was called a thief. He was treated like a thief."

Jeremy Johnson, Sumner County Schools spokesman, said the school has dealt with a lunch theft problem. Johnson said Goetleuck's son was one of seven students caught stealing.

"We have a zero-tolerance policy, which means if the SRO's see any theft or crime they are told to prosecute," Johnson said.

But Goetleuck believes John is guilty of no crime and that the policy goes too far.

"I think the school was heartless," she said. "Every child has a different situation and they didn't take that into account."

Her son appeared in juvenile court Tuesday morning and settled his case. The theft charge will be wiped from his record as long as he goes to school and behaves for the next six months.

His mother said that won't be a problem because he's never been in trouble before this incident.

Goetleuck said she hopes the school will evaluate future incidents such as her son's on a case-by-case basis.

School officials said they do not plan to change the current no-tolerance policy on lunch thefts.

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If that STATE was closer to me,
I'd be right there.....
PROTESTING!

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Boys Kicked Out Of School for Taking Viagra

TWO 14-year-old boys were caught taking Viagra in school.

Police are investigating after the second-year pupils were hauled before the headmaster after other children tipped off teachers.

Both boys caught with the male impotence drug were excluded from St Matthew's Academy in Saltcoats, Ayrshire.

A source at the school said: "The boys were caught after reports they had taken a number of the pills each.

"They were pulled into the headmaster's office and found to be in possession of prescription drugs including Viagra.

"The boys have claimed not to have taken any of them but there has been good reason to believe that was not the case.
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Uh.... don't 14 yo live with a perpetual erection anyway? Why in the name of Sam Hill would they even THINK they'd need it? Even out of curosity? Who the hell wants to suffer from priapism

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School Took Girl's Crutches