Source: https://local12.com/
Some Michigan parents are upset because their kindergartners shared a bottle of tequila during snack-time on Thursday.
A Livonia child shared a bottle of Jose Cuervo mix with 10% alcohol content with her classmates before a teacher stopped it.
“It was so many thoughts running through my mind like, ‘Oh my God, you know, what if it was open before the girl brought it to school, how much was it’?” said Alexis Smith, a parent.
Thursday morning Smith got a call from her daughter’s school, Grand River Academy. A kindergartner shared the drink with four classmates. One of them was Smith’s five-year-old.
“I asked her like, ‘Is my daughter okay?’ And she said, ‘She’s right here and she looks okay.’ And then I said, ‘Okay, well, how much did she drink?'” asked Smith.
The school couldn’t give her a definite answer.
“My daughter takes medicine and, first up, no case should be drinking and you know that, you know, just the shot itself, it burns. Like how do you feel? Like anything could have happened?” said Smith.
She picked up her daughter up from school early. Later that day the principal sent out a letter addressed to kindergarten parents saying, in part, disciplinary measures will be taken in accordance with the student code of conduct.
And while school was closed on Friday, Smith says her daughter will not be back on Monday.
“It’s so heart-breaking,” she said. “I feel like her first year of kindergarten was already cut short because of COVID and situations like this is making it worse.”
School officials say they have addressed the situation, but can’t share the details because of student privacy laws.