Eighth graders get
detentions
for paying for lunch
in pennies
By John Holl, nj.com
from the Web, February 29, 2008
Twenty-nine eighth graders at a
Hunterdon County school received two days detention after they paid for their $2
lunches with pennies, officials said.
The 8th graders at Readington Middle School were protesting a shortened lunch
period on a half-day of school, and received detentions for slowing the
cafeteria line and disrespecting lunch aides, who had to count the 5,800
copper-plated coins, said Superintendent Jorden Schiff.
There were approximately 200 students in the cafeteria during that lunch period,
Schiff said. The detentions called for spending an hour of silence in a
classroom after school.
"Most reasonable people understand that the school needed to respond to this,"
he said.
Schiff said school officials would work to harness the organizational power and
desire of the students and channel it towards something that could impact the
greater good.
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