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Two Louisiana high school girls are fighting their expulsion and criminal charges after officials discovered laxative-laced cupcakes left in the teachers' lounge. Jeannie Nguyen, 17, of Kenner, and Kamrin Kennedy, 17, of Marrero, were expelled from Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy after their principal, Kristi Phillippi, found 22 cupcakes made with the over-the-counter laxative MiraLAX, The Times-Picayune reported. Authorities said that Nguyen and Kennedy made the cupcakes as a senior prank, but other students warned a teacher to avoid the treats, the New Orleans paper said. The girls admitted adding the laxative to a cupcake mix and icing, according to a police report. They were booked on charges of mingling harmful substances, which carries a two-year prison sentence and $1,000 fine as punishment, and were suspended for the rest of the school year, The Times-Picayune said. It's a punishment that parents are calling too tough. "We're not justifying what these kids did," Kamrin's mother, Marietta Kennedy, told the paper. "But the thing is, we just think the punishment doesn't fit the crime."
Can people have an allergic reaction to this laxative? Is it potentially fatal? If no to both questions then all these girls deserve is a slap on the wrist.
They deserve to be exposed and self-humiliated for doing something that they later realized was show-offy stupid. When I did stupid things, that's how I learned not to be a stupidity-recidivist. Nothing more need be done. They will not re-offend, and the matter settled as soon as they got summoned to the principal's office.
And a major daily newspaper of the integrity of the Times Picayune has no business covering a story like this., For their information, the newspaper was named after the small coin of the French colonies that was once the newsstand price of the paper, not after their journalistic aspirations.
I have to disagree; I can see them being suspended, yes. Expelled for a stupid prank that intended no real harm, no.
I think they completely intended to do some real harm. I suppose it could have been *worse* (as in, the could have laced it with psychotropic drugs or crushed glass...), but as it is, they chose to do something they were well aware could cause someone to have a bad reaction. Be it on a dare or not, the actions of these 2 put other people in danger of physical pain. And at 17, they *really* should have known better.
If it wasn't to cause physical pain and/or discomfort, then what do you think their intention was?
If a teacher or other students can be fired or expelled, respectively, for giving a student an aspirin then these girls deserve no less than an expulsion.
In a school setting there is Zero Tolerance and that extends to over the counter drugs. This action is considered assault.
We don't know what type of laxative this was. Many people may not be allergic to the active drug itself but could be allergic to the type of vehicle in that drug.
I am highly allergic to perfumes, colognes, air fresheners and scented deodorants. In the beginning of the school year my students' parents were given a letter that stated this fact and were alerted that they as well as the child could be held responsible if I was subjected to same. In all my years of teaching I only had a problem with it once and the student was expelled and criminally charged. He didn't take it seriously and sprayed his cologne around the room. I was hospitalized with an asthma attack. That student, also, was high school student.
At age 17, if they are to stupid to know that they could do damage to another human, they should suffer the consequences.
After all, when they turn 18 they get to vote!
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