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Title: Student Punished for Bringing Hot Pepper to School
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Infowars
URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/student-pun ... bringing-hot-pepper-to-school/
Published: May 28, 2015
Author: Adan Salazar
Post Date: 2015-05-28 19:27:26 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 2540
Comments: 10
The mother of Nick Lien, a 10th grader at Centereach High School, says her family has a healthy appreciation for spicy food. “I eat hot food. My family eats hot food,” Nick’s mom, Sharon, told CBS New York. “It’s just in our blood.” So imagine Sharon’s confusion when she was summoned to school over a food item her family regularly consumes. “I ran to the school to wonder why. I didn’t know what it was,” Sharon said. “I asked if it was pepper spray, peppers on sandwiches, and she said it was my son brought a pepper to school – which I happen to have. We eat hot peppers, so it’s, like, no big deal.” Nick had brought ghost peppers to school and made the mistake of allowing his less-spicy-tolerant classmates to try them. “My friends saw that I had the new ghost pepper with me, and they all wanted to see how spicy it really was, because everybody thought that basically they could handle it and it was nothing,” Nick described. “So they all tried a piece.” Bhut Jolokia, also known as ghost pepper, is one of the hottest chili peppers on the planet, measuring in at over 1,000,000 units on the Scoville scale. Nick buys them online, three for $12. In comparison, the jalapeño pepper measures in at anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000 units. Unfortunately his classmates couldn’t handle the heat. At least two of his buddies had to go see the nurse, red-faced and complaining of stomach pains and fiery tongues. “One ran to go get milk. Two were standing trying to fume it out and then they went to the nurse. They aren’t mad at me but they were in the moment,” Nick told the New York Post. Subsequently, administrators issued Nick the option of two days of after-school detention, or one day of in-school suspension. “I was told that it’s equivalent to giving someone LSD,” Nick said. “I was shocked, because I didn’t realize that giving someone a pepper could get me into as much trouble as I was in.” The Liens’ attorney asserts the school overstepped their boundaries in attempting to regulate the type of foods a student can bring to lunch. “Students’ rights cannot be violated by dictating to them what they can and can’t bring in for lunch, so it’s an outage,” the family’s attorney Ken Mollins said. Despite ghost peppers already beginning to appear at fast-food restaurants like Wendy’s and Jack in the Box, the district superintendent has stood firm saying the peppers pose a risk to students. With summer break fast approaching, Nick says he fears serving the detention will affect his grades. “All the work that we have now is all getting bunched together, and if I lose two days of school, then it’s really going to affect my grades,” Nick claimed. CBS New York notes there are no state laws prohibiting students from bringing peppers to school.
The family of a Long Island student is suing his high school after administrators punished him for bringing hot peppers to lunch.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
I remember when I went to elementary school, they actually had bottles of hot pepper vinegar on the tables that the students were free to use. A common joke was to pour a little in some unsuspecting victim's bottle (yes glass bottle) of milk. Nobody thought it was anything more than harmless fun.
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Ah. But he shared that "food" with others. And they got sick. So sick they went to see the school nurse. So according to his lawyer, he can bring peanuts to school and share them, too? Eggs? Soy products? Shellfish?
Yes, hot peppers are the exact equivalent of LSD. Makes sense to me. Maybe officers should just use LSD instead of pepper sauce in detainment efforts. It would probably be cheaper
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
No one forced them to eat the peppers.
An exact equivalent. Is that like an only choice? Growing smaller? A conspicuous absence? Loosely sealed?
Well, the school official (yes, allegedly, but I have no reason to doubt it) said it was. Hot pepper sauce never hurt anyone. The sauce police spray into people's eyes is much more potent than a ghost pepper and know no one has ever been blinded or killed by it. The kid was just sharing food he eats. This is all too stupid.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
And if he shared his peanuts with a kid who was allergic to them? And the kid went into anaphylactic shock and died? Hey, he was just sharing.
What's your point? That kids can bring any substance to school to share with other kids as long as they're not forced? "No one forced them." What a childish justification.
The article omitted the fact that three students choked to death on those dangerous peppers. Better take guns to school....less dangerous.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
"The Liens’ attorney asserts the school overstepped their boundaries in attempting to regulate the type of foods a student can bring to lunch."
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
I was told that it’s equivalent to giving someone LSD
#4. To: misterwhite (#2)
Ah. But he shared that "food" with others.
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#5. To: no gnu taxes (#3)
"Yes, hot peppers are the exact equivalent of LSD."
#6. To: misterwhite (#5)
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
India deploys world's hottest chilli to fight terrorism
Bhut jolokia, or 'ghost chilli', to be used for teargas-like grenades to immobilise suspects, defence officials say The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
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#8. To: no gnu taxes (#6)
"The kid was just sharing food he eats. This is all too stupid."
#9. To: Deckard (#4)
"No one forced them to eat the peppers."
#10. To: Deckard (#0)
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