<p>One more thing: While the treats are exchanged at the football games, they are rarely eaten and if they are distrubuted, they can’t be eaten at the games. Our girls are not permitted to eat anything in their uniforms and can only drink water or, during the 3rd quarter, Sprite.</p>
<p>Sounds like a waste to bake goods that won’t be eaten–perhaps the idea was good & quaint in safer days gone by. Perhaps they should figure out something that could be exchanged that could actually be used–nice handwritten, handmade note cards saying something good/nice about the opposing school or community or team? </p>
<p>I can see why bake sales are not too popular these days either–the DOH requires things only be baked in a certified, inspected kitchen with everyone prescreened for TB & other regs & rules. Important but puts a damper on homemade goodies.</p>
<p>Yeah, sounds like they should just go visit each other without food involved. They have these little cheers they do for each other. </p>
<p>Of course, the going to visit each other on the opposing side can be fraught with peril, too. The drill teams all have “honor guards” which are boys who walk with the girls when they are crossing over the other side (to visit, enter the field, etc.) to protect them (from thrown objects and the like). I’ve never seen the protection be necessary at our school, but there must be a reason for it.</p>
<p>When I was in HS in NJ, toward the end of our senior year, a boy put Ex-Lax in the coffee in the teacher’s lounge. Several teachers drank the coffee, with the expected results. What the student didn’t know - we had a diabetic teacher on staff, as well as a teacher in the early stages of pregnancy who had experienced previous miscarraiges. The kid was bragging to other students, and someone ratted him out. He had been voted by the students to speak at graduation (he had a well-known sense of humor, and was a top student), but as his punishment he was not allowed to speak at graduation and was suspended for 2 days. That was it. He wasn’t even kicked out of NHS! No teachers had any long-term health consequences, thank heavens. </p>
<p>As an NHS member, I was ticked off. I felt that the “character” part of “character, scholarship, leadership, service” was meaningless if this kid was allowed to remain as an NHS graduate.</p>
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<p>Hey. We take our sports seriously here, okay?</p>
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<p>^^^ Yeah I guess so!! 
We don’t even have cheerleaders or dance teams at our high school!</p>
<p>I agree with the posters who do not classify this act as a “prank”. If an OTC medication and rat poison were in fact involved, that smells like a criminal act to me. Somehow I doubt the part about Chlorox bleach being in the brownies - more like products of its violent reaction with the brownie mix. Mixing an oxidizer with a bunch of organic matter - well, that was a really dumb thing to do!</p>
<p>Hisgracefillsme, our state routinely prosecutes teenagers as adults. Recently, three 14 and 15 year olds beat several homeless men. Two of the beating victims died as a result of their injuries. The teens are being prosecuted as adults. </p>
<p>In the case of these girls, I hope the reports of poison and Clorox are wrong. If not, their actions are indefensible - teenage girls know that ingesting poison and Clorox can be fatal. If it was “just” laxatives, that would be stupid, and it should be punished with something a bit more stringent than a couple days off school.</p>