Background
A boy bought a bag of Skittle from another boy in New Haven, Connecticut. The candy-crazed buyer was stripped of his title as vice-president of the student council, banned from an honors dinner, and suspended from school. The system has a no-candy policy. The seller was also punished. Below - the effect of one commentator's remarks can be seen.
THE SKITTLES AFFAIR
Give props to legal eagle and radio host Mark Levin. At the opening of his show Wednesday, he highlighted the plight of New Haven, Conn., eighth grader Michael Sheridan, an honor student and school vice president who was suspended and stripped of his honors for buying a bag of Skittles candies from a classmate.
Levin gave out the phone number of the spokesperson for the New Haven school district, but asked his listeners to be civilized about the calling. The civilized part was easy. Getting through was another matter. Within ten minutes of the number's being given out, the New Haven school district's phone system crashed, as did its website.
Within an hour of that, the wheels were already in motion to clear Sheridan's name and restore his and the other student's good standing.
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GJ - The moral of the story? If people stand up to evil and corruption, wisdom has a decent chance of prevailing. Few people want to say anything today. Perhaps Lutheran will rouse themselves from slumber after they read the Tinky-Winky ELCA Report.
