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Big Food Fight Leads To Suspensions

Posted by DFO

May 14, 2009 1:16 p.m. • 8 comments

Item: Huge food fight at Washington school/KING5

More Info: At least 15 students are being expelled after a huge food fight at Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek, Wash., Thursday. The fight happened around 11 a.m. One student told KING 5 News that several hundred students were involved. Everett School District spokesperson Mary Waggoner says 15 or 16 students will be expelled on an emergency basis. Nobody was injured.

Question: Have you ever been involved in a food fight? Describe it.

Eight comments on this post so far. Add yours!

pthompson on May 14 at 2:00 p.m.
This is too funny someone must have rented an old VHS of Animal House. Expulsions seem a bit harsh.
Kibby on May 14 at 2:16 p.m.
Yup….as a 6 year old in a Paris France elementary school. I remember the teachers, at first upset, finally joining in. All 100 something of us laughed until our sides hurt. Not sure who got to do the clean up, but the fact that the adults joined in and laughed With us rather than punishing us left a big impression on me.
Liz on May 14 at 2:17 p.m.
OMG. When I was at Cal Poly back in the late seventies, the dorms reluctantly held a midnight feed during finals week. They were afraid, very afraid to do this for us due to, well, food fights. They spent an entire week threatening the students about what would happen if a food fight broke out. Yup. you guessed it. There I sat, minding my own business and suddenly there are waffles and whipped cream and strawberry syrup flying through the air.
I ducked under a table.
JeanieSpokane on May 14 at 2:42 p.m.
Never.
Frum Helen Back on May 14 at 3:08 p.m.
I’m with Jeanie. I’ve NEVER even been tempted since I figured I’d have to clean up the mess as punishment.
raymond_pert on May 14 at 3:44 p.m.
There’s gotta be Scoop Jackson pun here somewhere, but I can’t find it.
florined on May 14 at 4:21 p.m.
Marianne Love (of Slight Detour) describes the only one I was ever in in one of her books. Her lesson: don’t stage pie-eating contests in a high school gym. My lesson: if you’re monitoring, and holding a pie pending the next contestant’s need, never mind the students. It’s the teachers ya need to watch out for.

And I agree that suspension is perhaps not the correct consequence. They should have been made to clean up the mess, ever crumb.

A little sidebar, it was interesting to see Mary Waggoner’s name in the story. Some of you may have happy memories of her from when she lived here in CDA (and was the PR person at Silver Lake Mall, among other things.)
JarodS on May 15 at 12:08 a.m.
Wow, these students must have been using hand grenades as food if they’re being EXPELLED from school for a food fight. Overkill, much?

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