Jacksonville, FL — During a Holocaust presentation for an 8th grade class at Oakleaf Junior High, students said a fellow classmate brought in home-cooked bread for a presentation. Following this class, parents said their children became sick.
Action News Jax spoke to three different sets of parents who said their children became ill after eating that bread and all tested positive for THC. Each showed the test results from their individual hospitals.
Parents are demanding accountability and asking the school about protocol for bringing in home-cooked food.
Clay County School District officials told Action News Jax they are investigating the incident, but cannot comment further.
“Friday, at about 1:30 p.m., I got a call from the principal at our son’s school," Alysha said. “She was informing me that some kids started going home feeling sick after their first and second periods. She told me she felt as though it was food poisoning. But she did allude to the project, the Holocaust project due at school and someone brought food.”
Later that day, Alysha, the student’s stepmother, and Lekina, the same student’s mother said they both found comments in a private Facebook group for Oakleaf parents. It was posted by another mother, which said her daughter tested positive for THC after eating her classmate’s bread during the presentation.
“I got scared,” Alysha said. “I took him to the hospital at 8 o’clock Saturday morning, and he too tested positive for THC.”
“You send your kid to school thinking everything going to be okay, that’s the last place I thought something like this would happen,” Lekina said. “It’s just scary, as a parent it’s a real sickening feeling.”
Alysha and Lekina said they met with their son’s principal and school police officer Monday. They said the school is investigating students, teachers and parents to find what happened with students.