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> Monday March 17, 2008

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> • Honor student suspended for buying candy

> • Long-missing radio-monitored elk found

> • Three Cleveland candidates have records

> • Amendment would have saved plumber pants

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> Honor student suspended for buying candy

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> NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) -- A New Haven, Conn., eighth-grader was

suspended

> from school and stripped of his class vice president title for

buying a bag

> of Skittles at school.

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> Sheridan Communications and Technology Middle School handed down the

> punishment in accordance with a 2003 New Haven school system policy

banning

> all candy sales in schools as part of the district wellness policy,

the New

> Haven Register reported Wednesday.

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> Sheridan 's suspension was reduced from three days to one,

but his

> mother said she still believes the punishment is too severe for the

crime of

> purchasing candy from another student in the hallway.

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> " It's too much. It's too unfair, " Shelli Sheridan said. " He's never

even had

> a detention. "

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> However, the district said it has been very clear about its policy

toward

> candy sales on school grounds.

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> " There are no candy sales allowed in schools, period, " said school

> spokeswoman Sullivan-DeCarlo.

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