Ga. School Suspends 8-Year-Old Girl (actually, LA)

[Rose Siding]

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.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-school-jell-o-shots,0,3119772.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[one_true_leroy]

1. How's that GA?

[TahitiNut]

14. Newsday editor thinks New Orleans is in Georgia.

It's hard to get good help these days. (When you're only hiring right wingers, that is.)


I really dislike the two-letter state abbreviations.

[Bronco69]

2. Shouldn't that headline read

LA School Suspends 8-Year-Old-Girl?

[VegasWolf]

22. Nah! She was nowhere near CA! n/t

[RubyDuby in GA]

3. Very enterprising

And don't foist this off on GA. We got enough problems of our own here.

Although, I'll take liquor at school any day over stupid ass stickers talking about "theories" any day.

[rodeodance]

4. so they punish the child for the sins of the mother??!!!!!

idiots!!!!

[sweetladybug]

5. This is just some of the good family values in Georgia

n/t

[Demrock6]

6. Teacher probably ate the evidence. n/t

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Imagine that...more knee-jerk South-bashing. Go figure....

My advice to you is to look at the dark underbelly of your own neighborhood/town/city before you start looking down your nose at crimes committed in the South.

I've lived all over the country and I can tell you for a fact that after you scratch the surface everything is the same.

[Poor Richard Lex]

18. agree that everywhere is mostly the same

but I live in the south and I can tell you there are some real idiots down here. I'm related to some of em.

[calimary]

28. True enough - we've got bush/cheney stickers riding around the

otherwise liberal neighborhoods here in West L.A. too.

(You'll recognize some of them when you see them parked - not only because of their bumper stickers but also because of the "well, then, why don't you enlist?" flyers I put on their windshields!)

[QC]

8. New Orleans is not in Georgia. n/t

[one_true_leroy]

9. We never annexed New Orleans....

yet!

[Swamp Rat]

11. Go ahead and try sucker!

:D

[one_true_leroy]

25. eehhh...

we got our own mosquito problem, and it's drier here.

(glad we didn't lose you guys to the hurricane, though)

[Swamp Rat]

30. Thanks

We are a sitting duck though. GW doesn't give a "rat's ass" about our barrier reefs being washed away nor does the federal government plan to prepare our city for a direct hit that may kill thousands. All of our escape routes are long bridges over water. The only one headed West on I-10 dips down below sea level to get past a train bridge, and that's before you even leave Orleans Parish. The other alternative route going West, Hwy 61, that is always shut down since it is usually underwater by the time folks can escape... which hundreds of thousands of poor folks cannot do.

When New Orleans goes, so does one of the oldest and most unique American cultures. No more Mardi Gras, French Quarter, Jazz Fest, etc. The University of New Orleans is the most racially integrated in the South, and Tulane University has some of the best medical research on the planet. I could go on...

Come to Mardi Gras this year! It starts very early - Fat Tuesday is on Feb. 8th.

:hi:

[calimary]

27. Are those the "morals" and "values" on which they based their vote?

Enough to drive ME to drink - and I tend not to touch the stuff. Not into the taste, and too fattening, mainly.

[Ediacara]

10. How is this the girl's fault?

Shouldn't the mom be headed to court for forcing her EIGHT YEAR OLD to do this?

[Swamp Rat]

12. Don't act all surprised y'all. Alcohol is a staple of our diet here.

I used to go to bars when I was her age. We still have children selling alcohol behind the bar in restaurants.

Want alcohol 24/7? Come to New Orleans.

Want to buy alcohol and not leave you car? We have drive thru daiquiri stops and in many small towns in Louisiana you can buy hard liquor at drive thru gas stations.

[WhiteTara]

13. now, that's what I like to see! Victimizing the victim!

where is social services on this thing?  What else is a nine
year old girls supposed to do but what mommy tells her. This
is one sick world all the way around.

[sakabatou]

15. Both should be punished

Mother and daughter.

[Rose Siding]

19. That's ridiculous.

The girl is eight. Do you think they instruct 4th graders not to bring anything that anyone could ever think looked like a shooter to school? It's an absurd punishment.

The district should, however, check to see that the mother isn't really desperate for cash so the girl is well cared for.

[sakabatou]

20. Let me clarify

The girl should get a punishment... of oh, a harsh talk. The mother however, should be fined.

[Rose Siding]

24. Why harsh?

Suppose she didn't know she wasn't supposed to do that? It's possible that she just thought she was selling jello. Do children really know what alcoholic jello shooters are?

If they actually do need money, how would the mother pay a fine? Maybe the mother was just foolish. Maybe she didn't realize that the item would be considered too alcoholic-looking.

[sakabatou]

31. Perhaps you're right

my mistake for not knowning all of the facts.

[MGKrebs]

16. Who the hell was this fourth grader supposed to be selling them to?

Other fourth graders? The sixth graders?

Mom forgot to say- "Oh, and don't let the teachers catch you"?

Sheesh.

Although, if I was a fourth grader right about now, I'd be tempted to start drinking too!

[DS1]

17. Bullshit, 3 shots for a dollar isn't profitable at all

And no kid is gonna be able to come back for seconds.

This business plan just sucks, I don't believe it.

They should be three for 5 dollars, so you can clean them out before they drop dead :eyes:

[VegasWolf]

23. LOL. Too damn funny! Need a new business plan! n/t

[Samurai_Writer]

21. The article says there might not even be alcohol in them!

Rush to judgement, anyone? If the mother is having her sell them three for a dollar, I bet there wasn't any alcohol in them. But even in that case, it was poor judgement on the mother's part. If there WAS alcohol in them, she should be turned in to CFS.

[toopers]

26. I guess they are going to ban individual, jello brand, jello cups.

They are a complete cocktail and not just a shot!

[Megahurtz]

29. Wow, that's crazy.