<p>[Middletown</a> Students Suspended For Barbecue In Parking Lot – Courant.com](<a href=“http://www.courant.com/community/news/mr/hcu-midbbq-0925,0,2080024.story]Middletown”>http://www.courant.com/community/news/mr/hcu-midbbq-0925,0,2080024.story)</p>
<p>Thirty HS Seniors were suspended for holding a Seniors only breakfast barbeque on school grounds. I’m curious how their how their GCs will explain the suspensions to prospective colleges!</p>
<p>It almost sounds like they were tailgating prior to the big game (also called school).</p>
<p>I doubt they would have been suspended if their breakfast consisted of Egg McMuffins purchased from a nearby fast food outlet. The problem is probably with the use of cooking equipment on school property, which may be prohibited as a fire hazard. Obviously, the kids didn’t think of that – which is what they will have to put on their applications. They should have checked the school’s fire safety rules first, and now they know that they should have done that.</p>
<p>Was that really just “orange juice?”</p>
<p>I think a warning not to do it again would have been enough.</p>
<p>Suspension sounds like an over-reaction. There’s probably more to the story. (Isn’t there always?) At the very least something like: they asked for permission and were told no, and chose to do it anyway.</p>
<p>At our high school, seniors can pay for a reserved parking space (money goes to project graduation) They line up early. D’s senior year kids were talking about camping out to get a good spot - one mom called the school cop and asked what would be their response if kids were there all night - result was a fun midnight to 8 AM gathering, including a kid with a grill cooking bacon and eggs.<br>
Who knows if subsequent years were as sedate - but that was a great class bonding for everyone from the CC kids, band kids, football players, drama group… somehow the word got out to all.</p>
<p>NewHope33–I think you deserve the “Best Thread Title of the Day” award, previously presented to MidwestMom2Kids for “Tampax Bandit”. Anything with the word bacon in it catches my eye!</p>
<p>At our school, students who have late arrival or early dismissal are not allowed on school grounds during their free period, but punishment for breaking that rule is loss of privilege, not suspension. Maybe the principal is a vegetarian…</p>
<p>…or kosher?</p>
<p>homeschools: Where bacon and learning coexist peacefully.</p>
<p>Based on the cryptic article, I have two not-inconsistent hypotheses:</p>
<p>(1) The critical issue may have been that this was happening while school was in session. Even if the participants weren’t missing class, and weren’t required to be elsewhere, someone may have felt they were disrupting school.</p>
<p>(2) Someone has a stick up his you-know-what.</p>
<p>I sincerely doubt this incident is going to keep anyone out of the college of his or her choice. It may even help some of them get in.</p>
<p>The school acted within its rights. Proper cooking and distribution of bacon raises a number of issues:</p>
<p>Was it thin sliced or thick sliced?
Salted or unsalted? Maple? Hickory smoked?
Was it in fact TRUE pork bacon and not some turkey or soy product falsely labeled?
Were proper steps taken to insure the bacon was cooked to satisfy the needs of all involved? Were ample supplies of crispy and soggy provided, or did one type predominate?
Were garden grown sliced tomatoes, toast, lettuce and mayo available?</p>
<p>Come on people, get real. Far too much at stake here. And if eggs were involved, that raises even more issues.</p>
<p>For all we know, they might have intended to cook bacon naked. Tremendous liability there.</p>
<p>…great essay topic for some creative soul in this group…</p>
<p>and, ellebud: thanks for the laugh this morning…</p>
<p>Well, there’s an update this morning. Yes the cooking equipment was an issue, but it appears the primary reasoning behind the suspensions was June shenanigans by last year’s seniors.</p>
<p>[28</a> Middletown High Seniors Suspended For Morning Barbecue – Courant.com](<a href=“http://www.courant.com/news/local/mr/middletown/hc-midbacon0926.artsep26,0,3183966.story]28”>http://www.courant.com/news/local/mr/middletown/hc-midbacon0926.artsep26,0,3183966.story)</p>
<p>Personally, I think it would have been sufficient to call in FDA inspectors to resolve the questions raised by violadad in post #11.</p>
<p>It would appear that the #2 option in post 10 above is the answer. </p>
<p>Absolutely ridiculous over-reaction.</p>
<p>Do the crime, do the time!</p>
<p>… what was the crime?</p>
<p>Rodney, you’re welcome! And thanks to all who made me chuckle!</p>
<p>I, for one, a fourth generation American Jew, prefer my bacon apple smoked, thick sliced and inbetween soggy and crispy. Unless these kids can deliver the good stuff…I don’t know, I’ll just send mine back…</p>
<p>From the newspaper article:
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<p>The best way to “untaint” the record is to make sure that all of the details, including bacon & birthday & 28 kids, are included in the record. Under FERPA, the parents (or students 18 years old) have the right to inspect their school records and ask for modifications. If corrections are refused, they can submit a statement with their objections into the record.</p>
<p>one word: lawsuit.</p>
<p>Update: The local newspaper has now done an article. There’s a blog attached, and the comments are quite amusing.</p>
<p>[The</a> Middletown Press - 28 students suspended for morning BBQ](<a href=“http://www.middletownpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20136336&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=665530&rfi=6]The”>http://www.middletownpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20136336&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=665530&rfi=6)</p>