Ga. School Suspends 8-Year-Old Girl

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By DOUG SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer

December 7, 2004, 4:27 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS -- An 8-year-old girl was suspended for nine days for bringing to school what appeared to be about 30 "Jell-O shots" -- though it was unclear whether they contained alcohol.

The incident occurred Nov. 29, as the girl stood after classes outside Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School in Terrytown, a New Orleans suburb. A teacher spotted liquid dripping out of the student's bookbag and found what looked like the small cups of alcohol-laced gelatin that are sold in bars, schools spokesman Jeff Nowakowski said.

The girl told the principal that her mother, who works in a bar, makes alcoholic shots at home and sells them at work. The fourth-grader said her mother had instructed her to take the shots to school and sell them, three for $1, to make some money for Christmas, Nowakowski said.

The gelatin was turned over to the sheriff's department for testing to see if it contained alcohol.

The girl was suspended for violating school rules against possessing or trying to distribute a "lookalike," or something that appears to contain drugs or alcohol.

Under the lookalike rule, the girl's suspension will stand no matter what the sheriff's department finds.

"The school system's position is, it doesn't matter if it had alcohol in it or not," Nowakowski said.

The names of the girl and her mother were not released.

The mother must also allow school officials to test her daughter's hair for signs of drug use, Nowakowski said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationw...print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
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Reminds me of the time when i was 9 and i brought powdered suger too school in a ziplock bag and pretended it was cocaine. This is what happens when you let your gradeschooler watch Miami Vice.
 
Under the lookalike rule, the girl's suspension will stand no matter what the sheriff's department finds.
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Isn't a jelloshot ,just jello-alcohol in a small cup? ,so therefore any jello in a small container would be a lookalike ,wouldn't it.I think the worst part is the mother asked the girl to sell them ,but I can't see that as being grounds for suspension,as the school around here are always getting the students to sell stuff (magazine subscriptions/chocolate covered nuts /etc...)
 
Inkara1 said:
...but see, the school wouldn't amke any money off her selling the Jell-O.
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Actually I think the faculty just felt gyped when they discovered it was near-Jello.
 
I just woke up and may be a little dense for it... but the title line says Ga. school. That makes me think its a Georgia school when it is actually one near New Orleans. Unless Ga. is shorthand for the name of the parish she lives in, I start to think that it is a typo and they meant La. school.
 
Oh for crying out lod, the girl was eight, and doing what her mother told her to do. Hand-cuff the mom, soak her in meat-sauce, and drag her behind a car through a district packed with rabid stray dogs for all I care. Suspending the girl is nonsense in my opinion.
 
These lookalike laws and rules puzzle me sometimes. A few years ago, while on the job as a probation officer, I was in court. I was assigned two new cases. One was a young man convicted of possession of X amount of Marijuana. He received a two year sentence, suspended to two years probation. The other was a young man convicted of possession of counterfeit controlled substance - he was selling oregono and claiming it was pot. He got a four year sentence suspended to four years probation.

The moral? 'Tis better to sell pot than to sell what's not pot and say it's pot. :confused:
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
These lookalike laws and rules puzzle me sometimes. A few years ago, while on the job as a probation officer, I was in court. I was assigned two new cases. One was a young man convicted of possession of X amount of Marijuana. He received a two year sentence, suspended to two years probation. The other was a young man convicted of possession of counterfeit controlled substance - he was selling oregono and claiming it was pot. He got a four year sentence suspended to four years probation.

The moral? 'Tis better to sell pot than to sell what's not pot and say it's pot. :confused:
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That doesn't surprise me at all. :shrug:
 
All depends on the judge you have and how competent your lawyer is......if there is such a thing.
 
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