In local news: When children poison

Two local teen girls brought a cake to school and served it too thier classmates at lunch. It didn't look necessarily appealing, but several classmates ate some and got sick.

It turns out the cake was made from cornbread, and had bleach, tobasco sauce, and playdoh in it. How anyone could digest that is beyond me, but there must have been other ingredients that made it taste good enought to eat.

The father of one of the girls claims she has a condition that causes her to make poor judgement calls and the school needs to find a way to deal with this. I have a problem with his statement. Schools are for learning. If a child has a special problem, the schools should not have to take time away from teaching to monitor a child. This is the parents duty. If someone has to escort this child every time she leaves a classroom, as had been happening up until last week, then perhaps the parents should hire someone to do it. By giving so much attention to one child, other kids with less obvious problems get swept under the rug.

This is one of the reasons I homeschool. The problem kids run the schools. All of the teachers energies are on them. How can an average or non problem child get any attention.... and even with so much focus given to this problem child, she was still able to poison her classmates. Where was the father when she was making this cake. Perhaps a school official should have escorted her home as well?