Pop Rocks

I normally keep the blog to talking about Brandon, but this story was too good not to mention.

Let me set the stage:

So it is June 4 - the last day of school. The time was 2:00, and the end of the year party was in full swing. I had a wonderful parent bring gifts for the students. It was a cute basket filled with all sorts of goodies. The students eagerly dove into the baskets and began eating the assortment of candy. All of a sudden from across the room I hear a child scream, "Ouch, ouch. It hurts! It hurts!" Of course all of the parents converge on this student. She sticks out her tongue and cries again, "It hurts." We all began to laugh uncontrollably. She had a mouthful of Pop Rocks! Then the kids, begin who they are, all decided they needed to try them too. Pretty soon my entire class had entire mouthfuls. (I mean if you knew a candy was hurting someone would you not want to try it too.) Then one of my students asked, "Can I go to the nurse? I might need stitches! Oh, it hurts so much!" I responded with a baffled, "Seriously?"

And the moral of the story is, never give vintage candy to first graders.

Thankfully it will be another whole year before I have to deal with that again. I hope all of the teachers out there enjoyed this story.