Third-Grader Suspended For Sniffing Marker

[The Straight Story]

Third-Grader Suspended For Sniffing Marker


Officials said Ethan Harris was sent to the principal's office after a teacher caught him sniffing his sleeve, which he had colored with the marker, and smelling the marker itself.

The boy's teacher reported Ethan's actions and the principal suspended him for three days.

"They just suspended me for a day," Ethan said. "They didn't even tell me what was wrong."

Ethan's father said the punishment was too extreme. He said the school assumed his son was huffing a marker but said that was not the case.

"He's 8 years old. And I think that's a ridiculous assumption," James Harris said.

http://www.local6.com/spotlight/15810632/detail.html

[JackintheGreen]

1. So they won't be scenting markers anymore?

Ah...purple marker "grape," we hardly knew ye.

[VenusRising]

8. Some days, those markers were the best part of school.

[iris5426]

10. OMG. I loved those markers. n/ t

[leftofcool]

2. Bullshit!

It is not too extreme. Sniffing markers is extremely harmful to the brain and the school would he held accountable if the kid was not stopped. Parents get yer kid some help, stop blaming the school.

[annabanana]

3. It continually astounds me how I survived my childhood. I mean really!

We didn't even have seatbelts.

[damntexdem]

4. You mean, you didn't get to sniff seatbelts, either?

Ah, SEATBELT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

;-)

[annabanana]

6. The gas station attendant used to let me sniff the gas hose!

..loved the smell of gasoline, I did..

[TahitiNut]

16. (lol) I recall loving the smell of transit bus exhaust.

Whenever we'd go shopping, we'd take the bus. When we got off, I found ways to stand at the edge of the curb so I could inhale the exhuast fumes. I was probably five years old or so. It was 1948 or thereabouts.

:silly: :dunce:

[pacalo]

29. I remember sitting in the back seat of my best friend's parent's Rambler station wagon

with the back window open -- the back seat faced toward the window -- & we giggled about how we enjoyed smelling the exhaust fumes. What innocent days the '60s were!

[Mike Daniels]

31. I always liked rainy days when the buses were lined up to take kids home

Same effect - all that exhaust just hovering at below nose level. This was in the early 80's to 85 during my jr. high/high school years.

[The Straight Story]

5. Maybe you didn't survive and this is hell...oh wait, that would be gdp

:)

[annabanana]

7. heehee. . . . .n/t

[MercutioATC]

9. Agreed. No bike helmets, no skateboarding pads...

and we sniffed mimeograph sheets in school like there was no tomorrow.

By all accounts, we should have died in elementary school.

[The Straight Story]

14. And people thought fundies were the prudes

Turns out, a lot of others were.

"Don't tell me how to live, cause it's my job to tell you how to."

[MindPilot]

36. One of my favorite smells (still) is jet exhaust.

When I was a kid, I did some pretty scary stuff to get me some of that. Think Pushing Tin.

[orleans]

39. LOL "By all accounts, we should have died in elementary school." n/t

[walldude]

11. Remember "mimeograph" paper?

I can still remember the smell and the sight of every kid in class sniffing his test as soon as it was passed out to them..

We have gone off the PC deep end...

[leftofcool]

13. And rubber glue

[orleans]

40. and paste! i liked the smell of paste. and i still love the smell of

play doh. (matter of fact, i opened a can and sniffed some yesterday.)

[coriolis]

19. Who could forget that aroma? Some of my friends (never ME) ate the papier mache' paste

:rofl:

[IntravenousDemilo]

37. Those were nice, but what I liked even better was stuff printed with the "spirit duplicator"...

...you know, where they used this ethereal, sweet-smelling alcohol to activate the ink and all the print came out purple -- until the very end of the run, where it was more lavender-coloured.

Somehow we managed to get by without computers and all the stuff that goes with them, such as "desktop publishing" and laser or ink-jet printers that make everything look pretty regardless of content. And we LIKED it! Who needs power point, really, when you can get your point across with an overhead projector (still around) or opaque projector (I haven't seen one of those in years and I still don't know how one works) or roll-down maps? Somehow people think that being able to put one's empty words into a nice-looking publicaton makes those words more legitimate.

I'm afraid that society today is all about the promotion of style over substance.

[leftofcool]

12. I know, no seat belts here either

but these days, the schools are held accountable for everything and damned if they do or don't. back in our day, our parents just kicked our asses if we got out onf line. School didn't have to.

[kestrel91316]

18. Same here. No seatbelts. OTOH, we didn't HAVE "markers".

We had pencils, pens, and crayons. We would sometimes eat the crayons, too. And bits of paper.

And we made mudpies outside and played with them; one of the neighbor kids ate dirt. And we all grew up normal.

[The Straight Story]

20. Well, I wouldn't say you are 'normal'

but ya turned out ok :rofl:

[kestrel91316]

25. Ok, where's the "slap-upside-the-head" smilie??

[coriolis]

21. I think mud is illegal these days.

It's dirty.



:shrug:

[walldude]

22. There was a kid who lived up the street from me

he used to come to my house and steal my dogs milk bones. He just loved those bones.. yuck!

[kestrel91316]

28. My sister dared me to eat one once and I ate a tiny piece. No thanks.

[Winterblues]

42. Definitely ate the paste, it was so delicious

No wonder I hang out on this board..

[kestrel91316]

47. I tried the paste once, didn't care for the taste. But I liked to sniff it.

[walldude]

17. You are talking about a thrid grader...

Get him some help? Because he likes the smell of marker? How old are you? Do you know in schools we used to get our tests from "carbon or mimeograph paper" and every kid in the class would sniff his/her test when it was passed out. Not only that but the kid was sniffing his sleeve, that had marker on it. I don't think this kid needs help. I think the school needs to lighten up.

edit: Go to the link and look at the kid. Tell me again how this is a kid who needs help because he's getting high from markers :rofl: He probably doesn't know what "high" is. I can't believe this happened my state :eyes:

[Mike Daniels]

30. Six year olds labeled sexual offenders and kids being suspended for sniffing art supplies

The lunatics have really taken over the asylum in the public school system.

[MindPilot]

33. If they are that dangerous then they shouldn't be accessible to the kids

[lpbk2713]

15. Well, OK, if that's the way they want it ...

... then it's only right if the school officials should be held
accountable for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

[TechBear_Seattle]

24. Excellent point

If the school is going to insist on treating this as a drug-use situation, shouldn't the drug distributors be held accountable for putting a toxic substance into the hands of a minor?

[walldude]

23. Hey Straight, I don't know if it was your intention

but this thread is bringing back many fond memories. Thanks!!!

[Romulox]

26. How is this any more crazy then bring dogs into the school

Or collecting everyone's urine? :shrug:

[LibertyLover]

27. My mom was a teacher and had a small home mimeograph

machine that she would run tests off on. I can still remember the smell. And yeah, I loved the smell of some gasolines, but not all brands. Amoco was good and so was ESSO but I didn't like Shell or Texaco. Bike riding, skating and skateboarding without helmets or pads. Long car trips without seatbelts. I remember sometime crawling up on the ledge of the back window in the car and taking a nap. All things considered, it's amazing that any of us of a certain age survived our childhoods. Now I look at my daughter, aged 5, and wonder what fun things are there left for her to do that when she is my age she'll look back on and wonder how she survived her childhood.

[MindPilot]

38. I did that riding up on the package tray thing too!

And horrors of horrors, both my parents were up there in the front seat...









SMOKING!!!

[lonestarnot]

For shit sakes!

Nothing like the destruction of the natural curiosity of a child. :thumbsdown:

[callous taoboy]

32. This IS a problem in the Dallas area- Sharpie pens and dry erase mostly.

[juno jones]

34. Ahh, second period art class with the rubber cement.

We didn't just inhale, but we rolled the stuff up in our palms for hours, absorbing tons of it thru the skin, making perfect projectiles to launch in study hall....

[MindPilot]

35. Markers? Meh! I spent a good part of my childhood huffing DDT.

The spray truck would come around in early evening and us kids would ride our bikes behind the truck pretending we were fighter pilots zooming through the clouds.

One of the dads in the neighborhood had a pickup truck and he would tow a half-dozen of us around in my wagon; he'd take the turns faster and faster until the wagon overturned and a pile of kids fell into the street.

If kids today did a 10th of the shit we did 40 or 50 years ago, we'd be in foster care and the grownups would be in jail!

[Dr Fate]

41. I heard that markers make you see colors. n/t

n/t

[orleans]

44. LOL

:rofl: :spray: :rofl:

[appleannie1]

43. I,m older. I remember loving to sniff the purple ink they used to make copies.

[MindPilot]

45. Paging Sniffa, paging Sniffa. DU poster Sniffa, please come to the

white board.

[AzDar]

46. I used to eat Play-Doh in Kindergarten. Probably have a rehab for that these days......

:rofl:

Jeebus.

[Quantess]

48. I am not at all surprised.

Schools take huffing behavior seriously.