LINDEN, Mich. – Apparently non-alcoholic beer can impair one’s judgment, too.

Students in Hyatt Elementary School in Michigan’s Linden Community Schools district were given O’Doul’s non-alcoholic beer as a part of a history lesson last week. Students reportedly drank the beer because it represents “ale common in the 1700s and consumed because of the scarcity of clean water,” according to Mlive.com.

Ed Koledo, superintendent of the district, refused to identify the teacher who served the beverage.

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He was quoted by the Associated Press as saying the teacher made an “inappropriate choice.”

While O’Doul’s is famous for being a non-alcoholic beer – containing less than .5 percent alcohol – the Michigan Liquor Control Commission claims it could still be a misdemeanor to provide it to minors.

Koledo told Mlive the district had considered sending a letter home, but decided not to when “no one seemed upset by the incident.”

“Nobody complained to the teacher, principal or me,” Koledo told Mlive. “We monitored the situation the next day. It was a dead topic so we just left it at that.”

“There were a lot better choices to represent a colonial-era drink than what was chosen here,” Koledo said.

Gee, ya think?