NJ Students Punished for Penny Payments..
From Associated Press
February 29, 2008 9:57 PM EST
READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - 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.
Do you agree or disagree? Maybe we no longer have all the rights as Americans as we did when I was in school?
February 29, 2008 9:57 PM EST
READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - 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.
Do you agree or disagree? Maybe we no longer have all the rights as Americans as we did when I was in school?
posted by Robert at 3/01/2008 06:31:00 AM
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