Minor in Possession of Tea is Suspended from Cali School
Kimberly Paxton
www.TheDailySheeple.com
October 13th, 2012
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Officials seem to be having a difficult time keeping their hands out of school lunches lately. Recently children complained of being hungry when schools across the nation began instituting caloric rations on cafeteria lunches. Many people said, “If you aren’t happy with what the school is providing, send your child to school with a lunch from home!”
But what happens when that lovingly packed nutritious lunch from home gets your child suspended for violating the school’s “zero tolerance drug and alcohol policy”, due to the ignorance of the educational authorities?
That was just the situation faced recently by a Newport Beach, California family. A 7th grade boy was pulled from class for the entire day after school officials spotted him with a bottle of kombucha, a fermented tea, packed cozily inside a foam sleeve to protect it from breakage. The lunchroom Gestapo confiscated his drink and the next morning, upon his arrival at school, he was sent to the principal’s office.
At the principal’s office, the boy was questioned (without a parent present) by a uniformed police officer. According to the student:
- There was a Police Officer there, who informed him drinking this beverage is against the law. The beverage he has was illegal. AND Tried to enroll his in a AA for kids??!! AND talked to him about Drinking and Medications and asked him right out…If he takes any pills also!!! …
- The school Vice Principle told him they were looking into transferring him out of that school.
- They pulled his school record and went over his “problematic” history. Obviously, trying to make him feel responsible and teach him a lesson???
His mother, like any mother, was shocked and outraged. She describes the call she received from the Vice-Principal of the school:
The phone call I received from the Vice Principle was very abrasive. It went like this: Hello, Gavin had a beverage taken away yesterday at school and we are going to be sending him home today because on the label it says this contains .5% alcohol and this violates our Drug and Alcohol Policy. He will be suspended for 5 days. I then, informed her that Kombucha:
- Is not deemed by the FDA as an alcohol beverage.
- He can purchase it himself at the store.
- The alcohol produced is due to fermentation and that label HAS to be there for FDA.
- I brought it to him for lunch.
Well, I wasn’t getting far. She was not listening to me. Finally, fed up and with my heart beating fast I informed her. “My son will not be treated this way, I do not like the way you are verbalizing this, I will not have you telling my son this is a drug and alcohol when it has not been researched yet and If they suspend him, there will be a fight. She would not listen to me and informed me that I would have to Appeal this considering it was turned into the district.
The worried and angry mother spoke with a blogger who wrote about the issue to publicize how the boy was being victimized by the ignorance of the school authorities. This negative publicity caused the school to refute the incident in a statement, despite the physical evidence of a 5 day suspension form the boy was forced to sign.
“No disciplinary action was taken and the student was not suspended. The parents of the involved student met with the school principal to discuss and resolve any issues that resulted from Wednesday’s incident. No disciplinary action was taken and the student was not suspended. The parents of the involved student met with the school principal to discuss and resolve any issues that resulted from Wednesday’s incident…
…The article also references police involvement. The Newport Beach Police Department provides two full- time School Resource Officers who work with our Newport Beach and Corona del Mar campuses. Police were not called in specifically for this incident. The SRO was already on campus and participated in a routine discovery process…”
The most insulting part of the entire situation is the way the school attempted to downplay the mother’s reaction to having her child questioned by a uniformed officer, sent home from school in shame, and threatened with drug and alcohol classes. In fact, the matter was only resolved when the mother went to the alternative media with the story. The people in charge lied on more than one occasion, only backing down when faced with evidence of those lies.
The school board said in their statement that in the future the discipline process should be more “nurturing.”
Seeing the need to review some of the practices regarding policies and procedures regarding discipline, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District Board of Education has requested the Superintendent to research programs that would emphasize a more nurturing approach to the discovery process and avoid overly aggressive practices when dealing with the discipline process.”
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The Vice-Principal needs 5 days off WITHOUT PAY for being an IDIOT!!! The school board should have “Zero Tolerance” for this behavior from staff. As far as the Police Officer goes …sounds like a TSA reject.
There is nothing really you can say about this stupidity. I bet even at its peak the East German police never persecuted its school kids in this way.
Personally I’d enroll these ‘enlightened school admins’ in an “Asian culture sensitivity’ class. Basically force feed them natto & kimchi until they figure out that fermentation does not equal intoxication.
Oh wait. Don’t most adults even my old age understand this? No?
-Leo
Americans. Too dumb to realize that they have been enslaved! These “authorities” are typical of the Crackers our Masters have managing us cotton pickers. These “authorities” are the “House Niggas” doing the Masters biding. They are unable to think outside the box that has been constructed in their minds by the Masters. One thing the Masters do not tolerate is “uppity slaves”. We must learn our place.
Obama would not like the way you guys are talking about the school system which his rules are inforced and the future will be more rules like this that needs inforced …please leave your phone number and house address so homeland security does not have to look up your facebook to find this information we want to detain you in one of our fema camps for reeducation services free of charge thanks to our master i mean president….
“Inforced”. Is that anything like “Enforced”????? Your ignorance is even more obvious than your poor spelling.
But where is the threat? The school did not have to call police.
I think people feel if their life is made miserable by government they can make everyone elses life miserable also.
School teachers and personnel are not appreciated.
Thats true, most teachers are unappreciated, yet that has nothing to do with this story. These administrators were obviously misguided in their judgements…
Zero tolerance…for free thoughts and actions.
Protest this matter directly to these Board Members of the School..
Ring them at 4 am and get them upout of bed to listen..
The family should be given an un enequavicle
PUBLIC apology.. and shoiuld also consider legal action for Defamation
SUE THE BASTARDS
http://web.nmusd.us/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1220710404290
Do they suspend kids for bringing soy sauce too? According to Kikkoman’s website, “Kikkoman Soy Sauces contain greater than 2% alcohol by volume. The alcohol is not added, but is a result of the fermentation process”.
That this story (and countless others of excessive force, police brutality, murder by police – without repercussions for the officer; lack of prosecution for evil, spurious accusations and false charges [anyone been through divorce here? If not, see "false Rape Society", "shattered men", etc.], and zero-tolerance applied to children with G.I.Joe figure guns, or those who draw guns, or – since it’s personal, it’s a favorite – the anti-bullying BS, where the school needs to “build a case” against the bully, until the bullied child fights back, and then the bullied child gets thrown out)
To be blunt, as long as we accept this sort of violence against our person, we get what we deserve.
Fatal doses of lead should be applied liberally, and frequently, to such terminal stupidity.
But keep in mind: that is what the system WANTS. Either way, “they” win: you accept it, your child is indoctrinated, you are undermined, your influence countermanded; fight, you are violent, and cannot have your children (actual violence), or are a “political agitator”, and probably a “drugie”/hippie/commie/pinko/fascist/ (insert locally hated group here) who deserves to be harassed by the police, even to the point of having your house violated (broken into) by police in search of (insert illegal item here) based on (insert source / cause for suspicion). And you may end up dead “because the cop feared for his (her) life.” “Furtive Motions,” “I thought he was going for a weapon,” etc.
Only solution is to resist en masse.
(and hence I leave no email, though writing analysis and TCP/IP logs would leave positive ID since I’m not running an anonymous browser here.)
Big Brother is watching, and unless you lie back and watch the circuses and eat your bread and soma and get lost in the information overload, you’re an enemy of the people….
{eh, I’ll take off the tinfoil hat now, but reading sites like CopBlock, Chateau Heartiste, Hooking up Smart, Mens News Daily, and Yahoo News or MSNBC…? It’s not “CONSPIRACY”, it’s just a series of individuals doing what’s “right”, “for the Children”… Everyone has to know what I mean, seriously.}
One of the forms of discipline at my sons school is to pull kids out of regular class time and put them in OCR….basically a class room with a babysitter where they learn nothing and are supposed to write about what they are there for.
My son has been interrogated in the vice principles office a few times with no other adult present…..this even happened after I told the principle that i DO NOT want my son questioned without me present. I told my son to NOT answer any more questions in that mans office until i am present. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS SCHOOL AND ITS DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS….South Lake Tahoe Middle School…..so close to pulling my son out.