Teachers Pass Out Treats In Pill Bottle to Calm Test Anxiety

get lives, all of you. who cares about this nonsense. GO GET LIVES

GET OVER IT . ITS A MINT IN A BOTTLE . ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

I am a teacher and have been for over twenty years. Creativity is part of the craft of a good teacher and creative motivating activities abound in my classroom. However, I strongly feel that this "creative" endeavor sends a very bad message to young children. I think the teachers should have used a more appropriate way to have the students engage fully in the test. Testing demands are high and it sometimes causes teachers to resort to tactics such as this. The idea is not a good one and next time, perhaps, the teachers will think of another less controversal way to motivate students. How about telling the students how great they will feel when they have done their best and this feeling of accomplishment will live in their hearts and make them proud!!! Teachers need to instill good feelings that come naturally.

I have to say this is total wrong and if the teacher wanted to do something like this she should have called all parents frist . And if they agree then ok, but your a teacher not the parent. I would also be upset. So what the school is saying its ok because there good teachers. Ok thats like saying a kid who maybe did same thing would be ok too because he/she gets good grades. This is wrong we teach kids not to take pill enless a doctor fives then to you or your parents know about it, At are school you cant give asprin enless its given by a nurse and the parent has given the ok. Maybe you all should get a GRIP.. WE teach kids not to take drugs and know teacher can its ok wait becasue it was candy... So next time your kids at the park and someone says want some candy its ok to take because lets how it is only candy , lets hope these kids dont realy bring pills to school/park and give them out , beacuse this will relax you,,, Your all asses at this school the one who made a concern your not you are smart and I feel sorry that the school could care less... WOW . SAD. This is why kids do bad thing because look this is a teacher who did something wrong and nothing happen to her. They blame the parents when a kid does something bad, will maybe it not the parents like we think its the teacher .. Its realy sad that people feel this was ok .... The world has gone to hell.....

I think some people over analyze. I'm 48 years old and remember as a kid when my siblings and I had to do household chores we would say "let's take an energy pill" and we would pop a Sweetart or a Redhot in our mouth ,and then get to work! We didn't have anyone in our life popping amphedimines or anything,it was just play,and made a dreaded chore more fun and less painful. Lighten up. If you are concerned about the message,speak to your child about it. Don't try to made a big issue,and threaten a teachers career.

I am a fourth grade teacher in Florida and think the idea was cute. The kids get so stressed over the writing test and if it helps...great!! I am sure the teachers read the label aloud and of course used it as a teachable moment.

Lisa, your a moron!! your whats wrong with the education system today.

The teachers were only trying to help the students do better on the test. Doctors give out sugar pills for the same reson, to make someone think they are now "Better". I think the teachers were creative thinkers who should be rewarded and not persacuted. Had they actully given the students Valium or any other "Real" drug then it would be a different story. They gave the kids candy! Name them teachers of the year for tryig to HELP students instead of the teacher who only shows up to work to collect a apy check!

yes, because every kid in that classroom is now going to take drugs from a stranger on the street. they took candy from their teacher who wanted them not to worry about the test. i think you need to take a step back. just because you are an army vet does not make you an expert on the matter.

To say that a teacher should be fired over this is rather overreactionary.The teacher should explain,if they have not already done so,that children should never take medicine from a pill bottle or from anyone other than a parent or guardian or an authorized person.The teachers can and should explain the difference between these candy "pills" and real medicine and tell them to never take anything from a stranger be it candy or whatever.The idea that local drug dealers are going to go around and give children pills is absurd.The high cost of prescription drugs on the street would make a dealer lose money by giving away pills to a child or an adult.Furthermore children should be taught by the time the are in school about avoiding strangers and especially the danger of taking a gift of anything from someone they don't know.Prescription drug abuse is at high enough levels that drug dealers do not have to find children to "give" them pills to get them addicted as the market is already in a state of high demand and high costs for illicit pharmacueticals enough so that so many people buy pills of variuos types for large sums of money,money that school children would not have.Even if a child had money to buy illegal pills off dealers then they would most like then not have enough money to buy more of the pills,because if so then they have parents that are much more dangerous to there safety than these teachers.

Maybe YOU need the chill pill, man. Besides that, doesn't anyone realize how stupid the grandma sounded? "If it's in a prescription bottle, it's a drug." So, mints are drugs now, eh? That means I'm an addict. Better lock me up, throw me in rehab. Oh wiat, that makes me a dealer too, because I regularly give them to people who ask.

And another thing: isn't this exactly WHY we pay for anti-drug education in schools? Like, if this is a supposed "outrage", then obviously all our "Just Say NO!" campaigns aren't working. Should we pull funding for that?

AND TYPING IN ALL CAPS DOESN'T MAKE YOU LOOK MORE IMPORTANT, IT JUST SAYS "I'M STUPID BECAUSE I LEFT THE CAPS LOCK ON."

WHOA partner...
Granted, what these teachers did was somewhat inappropriate, and may send a mixed message to the kids, but their imagination and intentions were great. Yes, we live in a society today that sends a message that pills can solve most any problem, but these teachers did this in fun and in an attempt to calm the kids taking a huge state exam. I am somewhat ambivalent in my feelings about it, but overall, I do not believe they intended to hurt anyone and maybe didn't think this all the way thru. Definitely they do not need to be fired or even disciplined. The principal counseled them and that is enough.

You were probably ignorant enough to vote for the republicans, too. I'm sure you NEVER EVER EVER EVER made a mistake in your obviously overly long life!! huh! You're just perfect. lololololololololol