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READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Sometimes a penny for your thoughts isn't a good thing. Readington Township school officials gave 29 students detention after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches. Superintendent Jorden Schiff says it started out as a prank. But as the eighth-graders began to get in trouble for taking up so much time, it turned into a protest about Thursday's shortened lunch period. Schiff said the students were punished for holding up their peers and disrespecting lunch aides. Schiff said some parents think a two-day detention went too far and others think it wasn't enough. The school said it wants students to know they can express themselves without disrupting other people. http://news.aol.com/story/_a/nj-stu...ecid=RSS0001Edited by Forum Mom to move to Numismatic News Forum |
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Pillar of the Community
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So much for freedom of expression or the right to peacefully protest....anyone really miss high school?  I'd like to read more about this, but the link posted above doesn't seem to work. |
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I read about this too....the rest of the school should come in and pay with pennies as well. I'd like to see them try and give the whole school detention hehe
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I just hope they didn't use any wheaties!  |
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If it were MY school. We'd do it again...and again...and again...
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Valued Member
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What...? Why would the students be punished for using a viable form of currency? It's the lunch ladies' fault for not being able to count fast enough. What if all the money those kids had in the world were pennies they found here and there? Would they be denied lunch and suspended then?
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Pillar of the Community
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Superintendent Jorden Schiff says it started out as a prank.
You know, big problems always begin as little things. It's good they clamped down right away, because you never know... One kid brings large cents, then another guy pays in Yap stone currency. Before you know it, it's escalated into a full-scale currency riot. Edited by KurtS
03/02/2008 9:41 pm
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Forum Dad
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I think there's more to it than getting detention for paying with cents. quote:
Schiff said the students were punished for holding up their peers and disrespecting lunch aides.
Those reasons sound totally unrelated to the cents. I think there was probably some nastiness involved over and above the "paying for their lunch". |
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So much for freedom of expression or the right to peacefully protest
If I had the right to protest in high school I never would have gone to class. Kudos to the superintendent for cracking down on those punks! |
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then another guy pays in Yap stone currency
You mean these guys  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Another reason why we should get rid of the penny.  |
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Schiff said the students were punished for holding up their peers and disrespecting lunch aides.
Those reasons sound totally unrelated to the cents. I think there was probably some nastiness involved over and above the "paying for their lunch".
Possibly, or maybe these are trumped up charges... I think the "holding up their peers" and "disrespecting lunch aides" was their way of describing what other might call a minor inconvenience of counting out two hundred cents for each student that chose to participate in this protest. |
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I agree with jbuck.
Authority in this country is getting out of hand. IMO.
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm a little unclear on exactly what is going on here....was it a prank or a protest? quote:
Superintendent Jorden Schiff says it started out as a prank. But as the eighth-graders began to get in trouble for taking up so much time, it turned into a protest about Thursday's shortened lunch period.
It seems convenient that a "prank" would evolve into a protest about shorter lunch periods. Even more so that the protest method seemed designed to lengthen the lunch period. Very smart kids - they know how to get their point across. Too bad they weren't interviewed for this report. I'm actually not too concerned about the peers who had to wait a little longer in line to get their lunches. As long as the protesting students didn't degrade the lunch ladies or harm anyone, I think this is a perfectly good way to allow their voices to be heard. Much in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. Good for these students! Edited by patrick
03/03/2008 02:05 am
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A very unenlightened way of dealing with what I agree is a minor counting inconvenience. Instead, the school could have been smart and put in an automated coin counter to assist the lunch ladies, or something along the lines. If all these kids did was pay in pennies, no matter what their intension, they did nothing wrong or illegal.
The Superintendent and should administration have played it smarter and upheld the students' right to pay in perfectly legal tender, thus turning the students' "prank" on its side. But, far be it for school officials to actually take advantage of a perfect situation to demonstrate educational principles.
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