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    NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Parents in New Jersey are firing back at school officials for what they say is excessive punishment for a innocent prank.

    More than two dozen eighth graders were given two days of detention after they paid for their lunches entirely in pennies.

    It happened in Whitehouse Station.

    Eyewitness News reporter Carolina Lied has the story.

    Some kids brought 200 pennies to pay for their lunches Thursday. They walked away with detention slips instead of lunches.

    Student Amanda Wolfenden never thought a bunch of coins would put her and 24 of her classmates in hot water.

    The Readington Middle School eighth graders put together the penny prank in mere minutes, and now they're looking at two days of detention.

    "When the lunch ladies caught wind that we were all trying to pay in pennies, they were very aggravated and thought they were disrespected," Wolfenden said.

    The students arranged the prank through text messages, online blogs and the good old fashioned telephone line.

    But what they thought was a joke was anything but to the lunch staff who had to count the coins.

    "I don't think it was their intention to do much harm, but there's consequences for the behavior when other kids are inconvenienced that way and couldn't get through the lunch line," Superintendent Dr. Jorden Schiff said. "Or the lunch ladies having to count thousands of pennies."

    "There's no rule in the rule book that states that pennies can't be used to buy lunches," eighth-grader Sarah Henschel said. "We never thought they would do this. We thought they would give us a silent lunch or just yell at us."

    But some parents are sticking by their kids, saying the punishment is too harsh.

    "Two detentions is way too much," dad Tom Henschel said. "They don't get anything out of it."

    The kids say a half an hour is not enough time for 250 students to get through the line and eat lunch. They say they just wanted to send a message, one penny at a time.

    The superintendent says the district responded, one detention at a time.

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    I'm with the parents on this one. The kids didn't deserve a detention at all, much less two.
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    That's so not fair...it seems like a harmless prank. And since when did it become a crime to pay for something with pennies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by veronicavale View Post
    That's so not fair...it seems like a harmless prank. And since when did it become a crime to pay for something with pennies.
    In Canada pennies are legal tender, at least up to 49 of them. If you give 50 or more pennies, they must be rolled.
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    Actually, 25 pennies is legal tender in accordance with the Currency Act, but common practice is to accept loose pennies up to 49.
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    I know, seems a bit much. Besides like Veronica said is it not money? it's perfectly legal.

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    I bt the gas attendants hate me at times. I will count and put change in a little zip lock bag and give it to them, only if I have like no $$ but they give me the look of death, dude it's money and I can wait for you to count it.

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    that's rediculous, those kids really did nothing wrong. If I was their parent I'd fight the punishment.

    We try to teach kids to stick up for themself, but when they do, it's detention time? WTF kind of mixed message is that?

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    I love what these kids did! Detetion is uncalled for. So the lunch ladies go a little flustered, get a hold of yourself already. I think the kids were pretty damn creative when they thought this up. Shit, I think they should get extra credit for it!

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    All I can say is, this is news?
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    Quote Originally Posted by VegasPrincess View Post
    All I can say is, this is news?
    Well it's local news, which opened the discussion that to make a penny it actually cost 1.5 cents to make so it opened a debate on weather to just take the penny out and transform the currency just to a dine or nickle and eliminate the penny.

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    last summer i read a news article that they were planning to stop production of the penny in dec of 07. don't know if its true or not or if it actually happened...

    and fuck the school board! if i was a student i'd pay in pennies EVERY GODDAMNED DAY just because of this!

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    I dont' think it's right that they got detention, but I do think it was disrespectful, and not cool. Who has time to sit and count 200 freaking pennies when there is a lunchroom full of kids?!







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    That is awesome! These kids were staging a protest, and their message sure did get out. Too cool!

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    I think they deserved detention. It caused a lot more work and was disrespectful...and innocent prank though it was..it was MEANT to cause trouble. It isnt like this was the only way the kids had of paying for lunch. If your kid didnt get lunch that day because the line was held up so long I bet you'd be throwing a fit. Esp if they got away with it and started doing it every day.

    They didnt get suspended or expelled..its just detention. Kids get detention for all kinds of acts of disrespect. I think it was appropriate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lola Rose View Post
    that's rediculous, those kids really did nothing wrong. If I was their parent I'd fight the punishment.

    We try to teach kids to stick up for themself, but when they do, it's detention time? WTF kind of mixed message is that?
    I agree. It was money. They paid with money. Unless there was some sign or notice posted that is is not allowed then wtf

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    It's just detention. It's not going to kill them. They made their point and now there are consequences, just like with any civil disobedience. If my kid was one of these, I'd be proud she took a stand for a cause and I'd make her a good dinner when she got home from detention, but I wouldn't fight the detention.

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    Make your point, do your time, take the high road. More often than not your point will be taken better if you're not whining about the consequences.

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    If it was too many pennies, they could've just refused them. That's what many restaurants and businesses would do. I don't know if the kids acted in a disrespectful manner, but two detentions seem too much. If that was my kid, I would tell them not to serve it.

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    Sorry but I miss what exactly they are "protesting"???That lunch isnt long enough? Come on...lunch was always 1 period..same as any other class.It seems like they are just playing a prank and being typical a-hole kids...not protesting anything. We used to do this in school...everyone would drop their books at exactly 1:14...stuff like that. We werent protesting..we were just being jerks. It's what kids do. And yes, a lot of us got detention for stuff like that and we deserved it and took it.
    My parents were the first to complain when I was mistreated... I actually got into a fistfight with a teacher when I was in 8th grade...and SHE started it. My mom was at the school in a hot minute to dispute my punishment in that incident since it was clearly the teacher at fault and got me pulled from her class and put in differant one. But silly pranks? I deserved the punishment I got for those and I knew before doing it that it was a possibility.

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    If they were protesting that the lunch period wasn't long enough to get 250 kids through the line like it says in the article, I think that's valid. When I was in public school, our lunch was never long enough to get everybody through and sometimes I would only have two or three minutes to choke down my food before it was time to go back to class. I'd spend the whole lunch period standing in line for food I never got to eat. So I think that's a perfectly legitimate reason to protest, and I think holding up the line with pennies is a great way to do it.

    But just because the protest isn't legitimate doesn't mean they shouldn't have to serve their detentions. Like it or not, the adults are still authority figures and if they assign a detention then you serve the damn detention.

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    Detention won't kill them. They need to learn that you don't get your way by punishing the lunch ladies. There are other ways to get your point across.

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    School could be in trouble on this one... Not only was there no rule against it, legally there are rules about refusing legal tender.

    It was mischeif nobody said hey "lets go punish the lunch ladies" they said "this will be funny"... two days is excessive.

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    I think the school should think abouit the WHY a little. I HAD to pack my lunch in school, I had no time to wait in line, my class before was completely across campus, and if i didn't pack, I couldn't eat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andygirl View Post
    Detention won't kill them. They need to learn that you don't get your way by punishing the lunch ladies. There are other ways to get your point across.
    Exactly. Those lunch ladies were just doing their job and they deserve more respect than to be hasseled by a bunch of eigth graders!! Imagine if somebody paid for a lapdance in pennies.... Come on now. We deserve respect and so do the women working in the cafateria......Everybody, even a 12 year old, knows it is just plain disrepectful to make somebody count out 100s of pennies....
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    Just because its legal tender doesn't mean they legally have to accept it. I mean, parking meters don't accept pennies.

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    I remember being in school and 30 minutes for lunch was never enough. If the line was real long, I might get my lunch right before the bell rang and then I'd have a teacher threatening me with detention if I didn't leave for class, lunch finished or not.

    I dunno if protesting with pennies would be the way I'd go though. If anything, it just gave other students less time to eat.

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