[lit-ideas] Re: School Days
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:17:03 -0500
People in power are apparently powerless against their own idiocy. In Memphis
several students have been suspended for bringing drugs to school -- dangerous
drugs like aspirin or anti-biotics. A rule is a rule and the rule says NO
DRUGS. Just as brilliant is the policy of suspending students for unexcused
absences. Oh, yeah, that'll teach 'em.
School administrators aren't the only mindless ones. Tennessee recently passed
a law that ANYONE AND EVERYONE buying alcohol must show the cashier a photo ID
-- doesn't matter if your face is as craggy as oak bark, your hair as white as
snow and you're being wheeled through the store on a gurney from the old folks
home with IV's still plugged in -- doesn't matter, by God, you still must show
the cashier your driver's license if you want to buy a bottle of beer. Don't
complain, it's the law. Makes sense too, no young person knows how to fake an
ID or would if they could.
As long as there are people with power there will be idiocy. That's an
inviolable rule. Get used to it.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Krueger
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:49 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] School Days
My daughter just started 8th grade.
The primary school supply requirement is a binder w/ various compartments.
My daughter has such a thing. With a small brief-case style handle and a
long shoulder strap.
The shoulder strap is obviously to make it easier to carry. Helpful when
you're running up and down 3 flights of stairs with no a/c.
Many of the Jr. High kids own the same style binder.
In their infinite wisdom, the administration and teachers have decreed that
students not carry "bags" around with them.
Thus, the shoulder strap use is verboetten, and the binder must be carried by
the handle. Having the strap over the shoulder causes the hall monitoring
teacher to yell at you "strap off, strap off", and if one starts walking
quickly because one does not want to be tardy to class, the teacher will
actually chase after. Literally give chase. My daughter has been scrupulous
about this rule, but she has witnessed what happens when it is broken.
I ask my daughter why the handle and not the strap.
"Because we're not allowed to carry backpacks or bags and this way it isn't a
backpack, it's a binder."
"Ahhh.......! Why aren't you allowed to carry backpacks or bags?"
"Because they said they don't want people carrying around things that could
be harmful."
"And taking the strap off your shoulder is going to change the contents of
your binder/bag???"
Julie Krueger
No Child Left Behind!!
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