Saturday, May 07, 2005
An Age Old Dilemma
What do you do when you are confronted with a person of authority that is clearly an idiot? Kevin Francois did not make the best choice when confronted with this issue, but I am having a hard time finding fault with the boy.
UPDATE 1:15PM
Apparently, not the slighest bit embarassed my his malapropism as cited above, school authorities have proudly announced they have reduced the boy's punishment from 10 day to a 3 day suspension.
Francois, a junior at Spencer High School in Columbus, was suspended for disorderly conduct Wednesday after he was told to give up his cell phone at lunch while talking to his mother who is deployed in Iraq, he said.How, you may ask, do I know that the school officials in this case are idiots? Why just check this quote from Assistant Principal
"They are really allowed to have those cell phones so that after band or after chorus or after the debate and practices are over they have to coordinate with the parents," said Alfred Parham, assistant principal at Spencer. "They're not supposed to use them for conversating back and forth during school because if they were allowed to do that, they could be text messaging each other for test questions."Not only did we just figure out why this kid was suspended, I think we have also figured out why Johnny can't read.
UPDATE 1:15PM
Apparently, not the slighest bit embarassed my his malapropism as cited above, school authorities have proudly announced they have reduced the boy's punishment from 10 day to a 3 day suspension.
"We are empathetic to all students whose parents serve in the armed forces ... (but) we do have behavior standards which we uphold," said Superintendent John A. Phillips JrYeah, but what about the language standards for your faculty and staff?
