So, does this count for science credit, or no?

Students in Zimbabwe are now banned from having a popular breakfast cereal at boarding school this year because some of them are using it to make prison-style hooch — thus perpetuating the growing online trend of #BoardingSchoolGoals …

No, there isn’t any viral hashtag campaign like that going around just yet, but it may if the story from the country’s paper, The Chronicle, catches any more online steam. What the outlet reports is that certain schools in the area are confiscating specific types of cereals from students because a few of them are mixing ingredients (which include sugar and sorghum from the cereal— key ingredients that can be used to make beer) with brown sugar and yeast — then allowing the mixture to ferment. Making booze. Brilliantly.

School officials have so far been moot about the situation, but parents confirmed the actions with local media. One area chemist explains to the Chronicle the ingredients can  be used to make a type of opaque beer, also adding the dangers of making hooch include not having control or relevant knowledge of the resulting alcohol content, and reiterating of course how bad it is for kids to be drinking in the first place.

No word yet on if the offending students will get credit in their sciences for achieving at least basic knowledge of a pretty technical reaction to everyday sundries. One can only hope there's a lesson to be learned from the event. Snitches, the world is full of snitches, that's the lesson here …

– Body photo via The Chronicle