In New Haven, CT, an eighth grade student has been punished for violating a 2003 ban on candy sales by purchasing a bag of Skittles candy from another student. Micheal was an honors student and class Vice-President. He was suspended from school for one day, not permitted to attend a dinner for honors students, and stripped of his title.
Weeks after the incident, school officials backed down, reinstating the student to the student council and erasing the incident from his record- presumably after he already served the suspension and missed the honors dinner.
I applaud any school district that chooses not to place candy or soda vending machines in school or use students peddling candy bars as a fundraiser, provided such a policy has local community support. This incident, however, wasn't anybody's business but that of the two students involved. Trading at the lunchroom table has been going on since plastic children's lunchboxes were invented. Whether a student trades his Skittles for homemade cookies or two shiny quarters should be none of the administration's concern.
I suppose I should be happy that public pressure forced the school to its senses, but really, why did this student have to go through all this nonsense in the first place?
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