Friday, December 05, 2003
Educators in the News
This item appeared in Friday's Best of the Web Today:
Makes me wonder what kind of education the kids attending these schools are receiving. Who was it that said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"?
Zero-Tolerance Watch
A 13-year-old boy has been charged with assault for "giving [a] girl a hickey in a Richland Middle School hallway in September," the Associated Press reports from Fort Worth, Texas. But it looks as though he'll escape prosecution:
The boy said Wednesday he planned to read the letter of apology that he has given to the girl in front of the class today. The boy said he has learned his lesson.
"Don't mess with anybody if they don't want you to mess with them, and don't touch anybody inappropriately," he said.
Meanwhile in Georgia, three students at Conyers Middle School--two 13-year-olds and a 12-year-old--"have been accused of violating the state Controlled Substances Act after a plastic bag filled with parsley was found at the school," another AP dispatch reports. "We believe, because of the way the parsley was packaged, at least two of the students believed it was marijuana," Rockdale County Sheriffs Deputy Myra Pearrell tells the AP. The sheriffs department says this constitutes a violation of a law banning "possession of a counterfeit substance, a felony."
And in Louisiana, the Shreveport Times reports that "a student expelled from Parkway High for a year for having Advil, an over-the-counter pain reliever, will not be allowed to return to the school." The headline: "Bossier School Board Upholds Advil Expulsion." Too bad they didn't leave it up to the less bossy one.
Makes me wonder what kind of education the kids attending these schools are receiving. Who was it that said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"?
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