Nothing like our school systems to get a little carried away... 
The teacher would have had to injest some of it for it to take effect, I think there are some individuals in the school district that should be looking for other jobs because of a forced ousting....
N.J. Boy Suspended Over Cookie Threat
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - A sixth-grader was suspended after school officials accused him of threatening to expose a highly allergic teacher to peanut butter cookies, the boy's father said Thursday.
Loubert Gabriel said his son, 12-year-old Jules, had been kept out of class since April 2, after a girl in his social studies class at South Orange Middle School told the teacher that Jules had made the threat.
The father said Jules was carrying a snack packet of Nutter Butter cookies and made a comment about having "something dangerous" but never said he had a weapon. "They mishandled this," Gabriel said.
Gabriel said the boy has not been allowed to return to classes pending a May 13 hearing by the district. The family had believed the suspension would be for 10 days, he said.
School superintendent Peter Horoschak said several classmates who were interviewed said the boy — with the teacher out of the room — waved the cookie over his head and said he would use it against the teacher as protection from receiving detention or any other penalties.
"We're very concerned about the teacher's welfare, and how the teacher was threatened by this," Horoschak said.
So far, Horoschak said, the boy has shown no remorse and refused to recognize the seriousness of his actions. Horoschak and the school principal planned to meet with the boy and his parents Friday.
Ingestion of even a morsel of peanut can cause people who are allergic to suffer severe reactions, from throat irritation to death. Gabriel said the teacher was not exposed to the cookies and had no reaction.
The teacher would have had to injest some of it for it to take effect, I think there are some individuals in the school district that should be looking for other jobs because of a forced ousting....N.J. Boy Suspended Over Cookie Threat
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - A sixth-grader was suspended after school officials accused him of threatening to expose a highly allergic teacher to peanut butter cookies, the boy's father said Thursday.
Loubert Gabriel said his son, 12-year-old Jules, had been kept out of class since April 2, after a girl in his social studies class at South Orange Middle School told the teacher that Jules had made the threat.
The father said Jules was carrying a snack packet of Nutter Butter cookies and made a comment about having "something dangerous" but never said he had a weapon. "They mishandled this," Gabriel said.
Gabriel said the boy has not been allowed to return to classes pending a May 13 hearing by the district. The family had believed the suspension would be for 10 days, he said.
School superintendent Peter Horoschak said several classmates who were interviewed said the boy — with the teacher out of the room — waved the cookie over his head and said he would use it against the teacher as protection from receiving detention or any other penalties.
"We're very concerned about the teacher's welfare, and how the teacher was threatened by this," Horoschak said.
So far, Horoschak said, the boy has shown no remorse and refused to recognize the seriousness of his actions. Horoschak and the school principal planned to meet with the boy and his parents Friday.
Ingestion of even a morsel of peanut can cause people who are allergic to suffer severe reactions, from throat irritation to death. Gabriel said the teacher was not exposed to the cookies and had no reaction.
