Mom allegedly has girl sell 'Jell-O shots' at school

[Champ]

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.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1207school-shots07-ON.html

[Book Lover]

1. Testing? Geez, just shoot one down!

Can't be too hard, 'specially in Nawlins (which I say with total love of the city...)

[Nikepallas]

4. I agree. Check to see if it is actually achol before suspending the girl

on that charge. Unfortuantely in most schools kids are guilty until proven innocent.

[Champ]

6. This is what they did

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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.

I really don't understand why they must test her hair for drug use. She is only 8.

[greenbriar]

2. gotta love them there

moral values

[Mojambo]

3. 3 for a buck?

Good deal. I doubt they had any alcohol in them for that price.

[JohnKleeb]

5. I wouldnt been able to afford it if it were three bucks

[vpigrad]

7. Thoughtcrime!

> trying to distribute a "lookalike,"

And the Bushie idiots make this even more like 1984. She's punished for someone else thinking it might be something wrong. Hey, I think Bushie was doing cocaine, does that mean I can have him punished because I think that? That's ridiculous, but so is this case.