Here's the first (from the Los Angeles Times):
Parents in Oxnard are outraged over allegations that two students engaged in oral sex during class while some students watched and others took video and photos of the incident.
KTLA reports that the incident allegedly took place at Haydock Intermediate School on March 26 and involved an eighth-grade boy and seventh-grade girl during a reading class. The teacher has been placed on administrative leave. The district is investigating.
A parent at the school told KTLA that she saw a video of the incident. She alleges that the teacher knew what was going on, but did nothing.
And here's the other (from the U.S. Constitutional Free Press):
A Texas 3rd grader had to serve a one-week detention after a teacher found a single Jolly Rancher candy in her possession.
Ten-year-old Leighann Adair came home in tears, terrified to tell her parents she’d been slapped with a week’s worth of detention for possessing a contraband substance:
The forbidden fruit: a piece of Jolly Rancher candy.
A teacher at Brazos Elementary School in Wallis, Texas, took the unopened piece of candy away from the third-grader two weeks ago after a friend handed it to her.
Both Leighann and her friend were ordered to serve detention during lunch and recess, and they had to write an essay about what they did and why it was wrong.
“She came home crying,” said her mother, Amber Brazda, explaining that Leighann “has never been in trouble before.” “It’s an extreme punishment for something so small,” said Leighann’s stepfather Michael Brazda.
“What are they going to do, have candy sniffing dogs next?” her mother said.
But school officials are standing by the punishment. They say they have to be strict in order to enforce their no-gum, no-candy policy. Candy and gum, they say, can cause a mess.
Gee, schools have sure changed since I was a kid. Sometimes I have to wonder about school authorities' priorities.
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