Posts Tagged ‘schools’

Moron of the Year – 2009

Monday, November 16th, 2009

The end of 2009 is coming soon and we finally have the most likely contender for Moron of the Year: Principal Thomas Murray, of Danvers High School in the Boston area.

The principal in question has proven himself a true imbecile of outstanding proportions, by issuing a warning to all students in the Danvers High School and their parents, that the word, “meep”, simply will not be tolerated!

His mass spamming to every student’s home e-mail address, reads as follows:

“Please be advised that any student who has the letters ‘meep’ on their clothing or uses the words verbally will face suspension from school…the police are monitoring this situation as well.”

Apparently the sound, which has no distinct meaning in the English language, incites principal Murray to shudders over “respect and appropriate conduct in school”.  No mention is made as to whether the police will be using live rounds to quell the student body from uttering the forbidden noise.

But the race to fame as Moron of the Year may find the toughest competition from the same township. If you read this article by Christina Hager, on the WBZ Boston website, it seems that a local contender and mother of one of the high school students, Stephanie Morrissey, has forbidden her daughter to use the noise and is quoted as saying, “Whatever it means, must be pretty bad. [...] If that word is off limits, then it is not to come out of her mouth.”

Ms. Morrissey may receive extra stupidity points by the judging panel, for blindly following authoritarian demands without question, which in turn could hurt Murray’s chances for this year’s award.

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Reading, Writing and Panty Inspection

Friday, April 4th, 2008

As if school isn’t enough of a tribulation for the typical teen, Safford Middle School in Safford, Arizona decided some time ago, that normal woes are not enough and students should be strip searched for over the counter pain medication.

Jacob Sullum at Reason Magazine sums up the situation wonderfully in this article. Here’s an excerpt:

The secretary had Savana take off all her clothing except her underwear. Then she told her to “pull her bra out and to the side and shake it, exposing her breasts,” and “pull her underwear out at the crotch and shake it, exposing her pelvic area.” Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between drug warriors and child molesters.

What Mr. Sullum doesn’t expound on, is that behavior like this on behalf of the school is also instilling children to unquestioningly serve authorities, no matter what authority they are.

As a parent of two now grown children, I spent quite a bit of time teaching my kids that they should do just the opposite. Never trust a government agent of any kind to have your best interest at heart, no matter who they are or how nice they seem to be. Always question authority.

It’s also about time that the American public stood up and did something about these vile “Zero Tolerance” policies in our schools. From expulsion for drawing pictures of firearms, to strip searches over Advil, these policies are showing themselves to be “Zero Intelligence” instead.

Perhaps it is no wonder that our nation’s schools are failing so miserably at the task of teaching our children. They’re run by morons: what could they possibly teach? We should replace all the “Gun Free Zone” and “Drug Free Zone” signs in front of these institutions with “Thought Free Zone” for honesty’s sake. It certainly seems a better description.

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Reading, Writing and Waterboarding

Friday, December 28th, 2007

How do you know when you’ve gone too far? How to you recognize when your push for “security” is a thinly veiled excuse for tyranny? When you go for the children.

The stake through the heart of the USA has continued its plunge with a hefty hammer blow from Maryland’s Joppatowne High School, the first Maryland school to offer coursework to support the “anti-terrorism industry.” As the lead line in the USA Today article reads, “Call it vocational education for the 9/11 generation.”

That’s right, this Maryland school has not only enacted a three year course for training kids in the vocation of “Homeland Security”, but other Maryland schools and schools districts across the USA are actually attracted to it and looking to emulate it. The result, a new generation of kids who will be programmed to be paranoid snitches, even if they don’t go to work for the Homeland Security Department.

We’ve seen this kind of tactic before. They were called “Hitler-Jungen”, where children were drawn in under the concept of “securing the fatherland” in order to train and recruit for the Sturmabteilung of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Or in English, the Hitler Youth of the Storm Regiment of the Nazi Party. How long will it be before Homeland Security courses follow suit and become mandatory curriculum for students?

I have to ask, why is it necessary to offer high school courses for Homeland Security? What gain is there, other than to indoctrinate students into a mindset that they wouldn’t necessarily have otherwise? The vast majority of high schools have no curriculum for basic law enforcement techniques used by police, so why is it at all needed to teach “anti-terrorism” courses? Last, but certainly not least, what does it say about us that “anti-terrorism” has become a major growth industry?

People, wake up! This is how horrible things start. No good can come of this. As a nation we are paralleling late 1930′s Germany in so many frightening ways that it’s enough to make your head spin.

For once, can we learn from history and not repeat the same mistakes? Please?

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Big Brother, Live

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

We have a whole new generation of sheep coming out of Amerika’s schools these days. Most students have been placid and pliable over the last half a century, but it has gotten to the point that they would rather give up all personal privacy, their very inalienable rights for that matter, in order to feel safe. My guess is that they couldn’t list their actual rights if they were pressed to, let alone understand their importance to a free society.

The latest test bed of managing the herd comes from New Jersey, where at least one school now has complete camera surveillance, fed live to the police, during all school activity. Big Brother is watching you, watching Telescreen. Only this isn’t a joke.

“I would want the police to be there right away if something happened to our school. Especially with all these bomb scares happening now, I know the high school had a couple,” says one student.

I’ve got news for you little lamb, the police won’t be there. They’ll see it happen, but they won’t be there. They’ll be hanging around outside, waddling their fat asses around sheltered barriers, while they wait to see what happens. Just like they did at Columbine. Just like they did at Virginia Tech. You see, they want to go home to their families and they can’t do that if they risk their lives for you. “To serve and protect” is just a motto. You cannot hold the police responsible for failing to protect you. The Supreme Court has ruled that unanimously in over fourteen cases to date. You’re on your own, whether you realize it or not.

Anyone who believes that having the police monitor your every move somehow makes you safer, is living in a dream world. The best it provides is the ability to gather evidence against the people that killed you. In the meantime you’re living your life as a lab rat, confined, controlled and monitored.

Don’t bother making a fuss about it. Take your Ritilan and shut up.

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