Redefining reasonable - 8th grader suspended for 1 day and kicked off the baseball team for eating somoene elses cookie

[Fischkoepfin 1]

The kid is in 8th grade, so he should know if it's his cookie or someone else's. I'd be pissed if it were my kid, but not just at the school.

I'm fairly easy going but if there's one thing I can't stand it's disrespect for other people's things and that especially includes things belonging to the community.

[Sister Fracas 5]

dang it...I want a cookie now... wonder where I can go knock-up a teachers lounge??

[Kajikit 65]

Zero tolerance policies are just plain insane, no matter what aspect of behaviour they apply to. NOTHING is totally black and white and they just lead to incredible overreactions like this...

[hockeygal 0]

The kid is in 8th grade, so he should know if it's his cookie or someone else's.

I actually meant know better as in making up for it/replacing it etc. He obviously knew he ate someone else's cookie, which is why he TOLD them he did it. I'm not sure what he intended to have happen by telling, but he obviously was trying to make up for his temptation in some way.

I don't think this shows incredible disrespect for other people's things. If he took it and didn't care and said nothing, that would have been more disrespectful in my view. However, the best scenario would have been for him to have just put the cookies back in the jar and not taken any. (but I probably would have swiped one too!)

[Reba 2]

just another example of why I figure school is no place for a kid these days sheesh! One day expulsion and kicked off the team is just a bit harsh IMO. Detention maybe... lines even!

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[almaty 19]

a typical chopf##k thing by all parties

[Marilyn. 340]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Henrico County eighth-grader was suspended from school for a day and kicked off the baseball team for eating a staff member's cookie.

Jeremy Maitland was in the Hungary Creek Middle School kitchen one day last month filling a water cooler for a baseball game. Caryl Maitland says her son told school officials that he ate a cookie after someone knocked over a cookie jar and he tried to pick them up.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=811374

he knocked over the cookie jar and was tempted while putting them back in in. So he said he took one. I think the reaction to that should be a giggle, not an expulsion. That is insane. I would be tempted by freefalling cookies too. And I'd have left a note saying "couldn't resist - will replace tomorrow" He's too young to know better, but his initial reaction to tell was correct. Now they've ruined him. He could have not said a thing and no one would have known.

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Henrico County eighth-grader was suspended from school for a day and kicked off the baseball team for eating a staff member's cookie.

Jeremy Maitland was in the Hungary Creek Middle School kitchen one day last month filling a water cooler for a baseball game. Caryl Maitland says her son told school officials that he ate a cookie after someone knocked over a cookie jar and he tried to pick them up.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=811374

he knocked over the cookie jar and was tempted while putting them back in in. So he said he took one. I think the reaction to that should be a giggle, not an expulsion. That is insane. I would be tempted by freefalling cookies too. And I'd have left a note saying "couldn't resist - will replace tomorrow" He's too young to know better, but his initial reaction to tell was correct. Now they've ruined him. He could have not said a thing and no one would have known.

he's gonna be on the cookie molester list for life too!

[*Robert* 2]

well now.....if they were chocolate chip....he deserved it!!!

Yeah!!! The little chopf##k should have been caned in the playground to set a REAL example of what happens to cookie thiefs!!!

Edited June 5, 2006 by roi_aggie

[onwa 6]

The crime should fit the punishment. If he ate a cookie that wasn't his--I would have him make a few dozen cookies to not only give back to the one he stole from--but he should also give them to a retirement home and eat the cookies with some people who could give wisdom. Why take away baseball privileges--something that will have a positive impact in his life.

[Veiled Princess 1]

Theft is theft plain and simple. If he gets away with stealing a cookie today who knows what he'll steal tomorrow.

I wish someone would get the punks in my apartment complex who go around stealing car stereos and flog them

Seriously though, one of the things kids are supposed to be learning in school is responsibility. He stole the cookie now he has to deal with the consequience. They have to learn how to function in the adult society that they're on their way too. The schools have become way too relaxed on enforcing rules IMO and I can see the difference in the way people behave in public because of that. I'm sure the school has some formal policy regarding theft and they were just following procedure. Rules are apart of our lives from childhood until we die. They are unavoidable. Without rules we would be living in chaos. I think this kid learned a very valuable lesson and he'll think twice about stealing anything (big or small) in the future. Good job school system

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Theft is theft plain and simple. If he gets away with stealing a cookie today who knows what he'll steal tomorrow.

I wish someone would get the punks in my apartment complex who go around stealing car stereos and flog them

Seriously though, one of the things kids are supposed to be learning in school is responsibility. He stole the cookie now he has to deal with the consequience. They have to learn how to function in the adult society that they're on their way too. The schools have become way too relaxed on enforcing rules IMO and I can see the difference in the way people behave in public because of that. I'm sure the school has some formal policy regarding theft and they were just following procedure. Rules are apart of our lives from childhood until we die. They are unavoidable. Without rules we would be living in chaos. I think this kid learned a very valuable lesson and he'll think twice about stealing anything (big or small) in the future. Good job school system

Damn, lady, yer nuts

[almaty 19]

Theft is theft plain and simple. If he gets away with stealing a cookie today who knows what he'll steal tomorrow.

I wish someone would get the punks in my apartment complex who go around stealing car stereos and flog them

Seriously though, one of the things kids are supposed to be learning in school is responsibility. He stole the cookie now he has to deal with the consequience. They have to learn how to function in the adult society that they're on their way too. The schools have become way too relaxed on enforcing rules IMO and I can see the difference in the way people behave in public because of that. I'm sure the school has some formal policy regarding theft and they were just following procedure. Rules are apart of our lives from childhood until we die. They are unavoidable. Without rules we would be living in chaos. I think this kid learned a very valuable lesson and he'll think twice about stealing anything (big or small) in the future. Good job school system

Damn, lady, yer nuts

a good flogging is in the bible isn't it...

[sparkofcreation 0]

Theft is theft plain and simple. If he gets away with stealing a cookie today who knows what he'll steal tomorrow.

I wish someone would get the punks in my apartment complex who go around stealing car stereos and flog them

Seriously though, one of the things kids are supposed to be learning in school is responsibility. He stole the cookie now he has to deal with the consequience. They have to learn how to function in the adult society that they're on their way too. The schools have become way too relaxed on enforcing rules IMO and I can see the difference in the way people behave in public because of that. I'm sure the school has some formal policy regarding theft and they were just following procedure. Rules are apart of our lives from childhood until we die. They are unavoidable. Without rules we would be living in chaos. I think this kid learned a very valuable lesson and he'll think twice about stealing anything (big or small) in the future. Good job school system

Well, I would guess he's just learned a very important lesson: never confess your mistakes, because people will make your life a living hell. Instead, lie, cover up, blame someone else, do whatever you can to make sure you never get caught. Look out for number one, to **** with doing the right thing.

Edited June 6, 2006 by sparkofcreation

[Veiled Princess 1]

Theft is theft plain and simple. If he gets away with stealing a cookie today who knows what he'll steal tomorrow.

I wish someone would get the punks in my apartment complex who go around stealing car stereos and flog them

Seriously though, one of the things kids are supposed to be learning in school is responsibility. He stole the cookie now he has to deal with the consequience. They have to learn how to function in the adult society that they're on their way too. The schools have become way too relaxed on enforcing rules IMO and I can see the difference in the way people behave in public because of that. I'm sure the school has some formal policy regarding theft and they were just following procedure. Rules are apart of our lives from childhood until we die. They are unavoidable. Without rules we would be living in chaos. I think this kid learned a very valuable lesson and he'll think twice about stealing anything (big or small) in the future. Good job school system

Well, I would guess he's just learned a very important lesson: never confess your mistakes, because people will make your life a living hell. Instead, lie, cover up, blame someone else, do whatever you can to make sure you never get caught. Look out for number one, to **** with doing the right thing.

The "right thing" would have been NOT stealing the cookie.

Theft is theft plain and simple. If he gets away with stealing a cookie today who knows what he'll steal tomorrow.

I wish someone would get the punks in my apartment complex who go around stealing car stereos and flog them

Seriously though, one of the things kids are supposed to be learning in school is responsibility. He stole the cookie now he has to deal with the consequience. They have to learn how to function in the adult society that they're on their way too. The schools have become way too relaxed on enforcing rules IMO and I can see the difference in the way people behave in public because of that. I'm sure the school has some formal policy regarding theft and they were just following procedure. Rules are apart of our lives from childhood until we die. They are unavoidable. Without rules we would be living in chaos. I think this kid learned a very valuable lesson and he'll think twice about stealing anything (big or small) in the future. Good job school system

Damn, lady, yer nuts

Why? Because I don't think the kid should get away with theft?