LIVONIA, Michigan – Some Michigan parents are upset because their kindergarten children shared a bottle of tequila over breakfast Thursday.
One of the students shared with her classmates a bottle of Jose Cuervo mix with 10% alcohol before a teacher stopped it.
“So many thoughts were running through my mind like, oh my God, you know. What if it was open before the girl brought it to school, how much did it cost, “said parent Alexis Smith.
Smith said Thursday morning that she received a call from her daughter’s school, Grand River Academy. She was told that a kindergarten had brought a pre-mixed bottle of Jose Cuervo to class and shared it with four classmates.
One of them was Smith’s five-year-old child, WDIV reported.
“I asked her, ‘Is my daughter okay?’ And she said, ‘She’s right here and she’s fine,’ and then I said, ‘Okay, okay, how much she drank,'” Smith said.
The school could not give her a definite answer.
“My daughter is taking medication and first of all, no child should drink and you know – that, you know, just the shot, it burns. For example, how do you feel? Like, anything could have happened,” Smith said.
She picked up her daughter from school early. Later that day, the principal sent a letter to the parents of the kindergartens, in which he said in part that “disciplinary action will be taken in accordance with the code of conduct for students.”
As the school closed on Friday, Smith said her daughter would not return on Monday.
“It’s so heartbreaking. “I have a feeling that her first year in kindergarten has already been interrupted because of COVID and situations like this are making it worse,” Smith said.
School officials said they had dealt with the situation, but could not share details due to student privacy laws.
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