Here's your Friday Funny folks!

More Parenting Fun!

So Tuck, my 5-year-old son, was given a small empty baby food jar on Monday, and told to bring it back to pre-school with something that has a strong smell. The little kids would be blindfolded and have to guess what was in the jar by smell. Misty put some peppermint oil in Tuck’s jar, and he took it to preschool, and it was a hit. So yesterday I picked up Tuck at school and he had the jar to take home. Still had the peppermint oil in it.

This morning when I went to drop off all the big kids, I noticed that the peppermint oil/baby jar was left in the cupholder of my Denali. As Eddie, my 12-year-old, was getting out of the truck to walk into middle school, I told him to take that jar and throw it away for me please. No big deal, right?

So at around noon today I get a call from the PRINCIPAL of the middle school. Eddie had been removed from class and sent to the office for “sniffing from a small jar of clear liquid in class”. The principal had been notified and Eddie had been sent to the nurses office for a possible “huffing” incident, and I was being called because the school might have to involve the police department…..

HOLY CRAP!?!!?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME ?!?!?!?!?

I explained to the principal that all that was in that jar was peppermint oil. It had been my 5-year-old son’s pre-school science project, and I had asked Eddie to throw it out this morning. I then asked if Eddie had told them all this, and she said that was beside the point…Eddie had brought a jar of clear liquid to school and that was a major issue.

WOW. After talking to her for a while, she said she wound have the nurse send Eddie back to class, and he would not be in trouble for the incident... I still have not talked to Eddie myself yet, but hopefully when I tell him to throw something away, he will next time…

Peppermint oil….what is the world coming too?? Is everyone going insane?? It was really hard not to laugh out loud on the phone.

-Mike

 

I don't remember grade school being like that?
I remember a few times when a little Chinese guy came on the play ground to demonstrait yo-yos and a lot of kids bought one.
I remember another man brought small knives to sell.
I remember when there were no tall fences and rarely was anyone outside to guard us kids from an evil world.
I remember when people who lived on one side of the school just walked thru the school ground to get to the other side.
I remember when we took our lunch in a big dangerous metal lunch box, often with a picture of a cowboy holding a gun.
I remember when we had to cross a busy highway with just another little kid as a crossing guard.
I remember waiting for a big black smelly smokey old locomotive to pull a train down the tracks.
I remember strangers living on the way to school giving us kids fresh fruit off their trees or candy.
I remember playing on swings, monkey bars, a merry-go-round, and a tall sliding board.
I remember playing with neighborhood dogs during recess.
I remember kissing little Nancy and getting spanked by the principle.
I remember my female teacher hugged me.

 

Zero tolerance for common sense (from those who ironically claim to be the most tolerant). Be sure to teach the kiddies the proper way to eat a pop tart.

mike

 

I remember a lot(very similar) to what CAT SAID, I'm younger but.....now your son is "huffing"..“sniffing from a small jar of clear liquid in class”.??:banghead3: Maybe this time you should make a stand, after all your 5 year old son's teacher is/was teaching them to put things in a jar and 'sniff' what next teacher, some spray paint?.....time to get that teacher fired!!!!!!

Stuff that up the principals ___________ with peppermint, minus the mint before they go after your son! ....................

REALLY!

 

Poor Eddie, he must have been so embarrassed. However it's to bad Tuck isn't old enough to appreicate the trouble is experiment caused his brother.

The teachers have to be so careful these days. I'm not sure what she thought Eddie was up to but I guess they have seen alot of stuff. I'm sure Eddie won't be trying any huffing at school anytime soon.

 

Those three little pigs would be in a lot of trouble now days.

 

Candy corn is bad too.

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/watercooler/article/260500/108/Candy-corn-banned

 

The answer is - yes! Might hurt someone's precious feelings. Might actually make some kid feel bad when he gets caught in a game of dodgeball or tag. Might point at someone with a finger extended that might look like a gun gesture. Common sense is gone. I'm so glad my kids are no longer a part of the government schools and we are finished with a school system that is flawed nearly beyond repair. Schools claim to want and encourage parental involvement in the schools, when reality shows the last thing they want is a parent actually involved and questioning what the schools do...or don't do. They really want parents to STFU, mind their own business and be compliant little drones.

 

With the strong scent of peppermint oil, you would have HOPED the teacher would have noticed that there was some peculiar odor there, and determined what it is! I shudder to think what they would do if I showed up wearing "Great-Grandpa's Chest Rub" for a chest cold! Heavens above, camphorated oil and oil of cloves? Frightening!

 

Crazy indeed, but this came on the heels of girls close in age having "blotter meth" in school in Houston.

And... Brace yourself... Huffing begins at an early age.

I don't have children but I think I can easily side with the school for being safe and side with Mike that they could have determined the what it was without all the drama.

Now back to my peppermint flavored plastic cement!

 

1964countrysedan wrote:"Now back to my peppermint flavored plastic cement!"

Don't be giving us any crazy ideas!

 

I can understand the schools being concerned. Things really are different now days and kids are led astray at an early age. It's sad.
Now if you will excuse me I'm going to dip my candy corn in some peppermint oil and stick it up my nose.

 

...that's gonna burn and get stuck.

 

No, no no! I like the smell of model cement......

 

Well this is definitely not a thread to sniff at,..