AKRON, Ohio – Akros Middle School student Iverson Sibley was busted selling “happy crack” at school.

The eighth-grader wasn’t actually dealing drugs. Happy crack is just sugar and Kool-Aid. And she didn’t really sell it, she traded another student a bag for school coupons, ABC 5 reports.

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That’s why Erika Yarborough, the girl’s mother, is upset that school officials suspended the 14-year-old and several other students for five days for violating school policy on “possession, use or distribution of any substance represented to be a drug or alcohol.”

School treasurer Chris Perin told the news site security cameras showed “what looked like a drug-type transaction,” and they hauled Sibley to the office.

“It’s not a drug. If it was Tylenol and she was like, ‘Hey, give me this for that,’ that’s a drug. Sugar is sugar. Food is food. I don’t care how you take it and twist. It’s food,” Yarborough said.

“We want to encourage our kids to go to school, to better themselves. This is petty,” she said. “She’s out of school for five days, not getting an education, because she had some sugar in her pocket.”

ABC 5 reports eight students were suspended in the “happy crack” ring.

“She tried to make it a bigger deal than what it was, to make it look like we were drug dealers, pretty much,” Sibley said of her principal’s reaction to the concoction.

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Sibley said she doesn’t even know what real crack looks like, and never claimed to be dealing drugs.

“We put our finger in there and lick it off, and our finger be bright red, as well as our tongue,” Sibley said. “It’s sugar, and I didn’t know I would get in this much trouble.”

“If she broke a rule, yes, discipline her. But this is extreme,” said Yarborough, who pulled her daughter out of the charter school and enrolled her in Akron Public Schools’ Buchtel High School Thursday.

Akros Middle School issued a prepared statement about the incident that made no apologies for the suspension.

“Like all schools, Akros has a strong interest in promoting a positive, anti-drug culture for its students, and violations of school policies are addressed consistently through its established code of conduct,” Perin wrote in the statement. “The goal has never been to withhold a Fee Appropriate Public Education; rather (as stated prior), to cultivate an environment where all who are in attendance feel safe and can be receptive to learning.”

“The hope is to partner with our parents (even in regard to discipline issues) to provide an opportunity to learn from mistakes as a student before they suffer more permanent consequences as an adult,” the statement read.