Four high schoolers in Illinois were recently suspended after administrators noticed they were ingesting what appeared to be white pills.
In reality, the kids were actually eating perfectly legal energy mints, but that didn’t stop overzealous officials from reprimanding them.
To do otherwise, after all, would require the administration to admit it was wrong.
Instead, the father of one of the suspended students said officials doubled down and accused the teens of “gross misconduct,” calling the mints “an unknown product.”
Unknown to school leaders, perhaps, but the students eating them obviously knew exactly what they were.
One of the teens, a junior who has never been in trouble at school prior to this incident, commented on the apparently arbitrary punishment.
“People bring energy drinks to school everyday,” he said. “I see this everyday and we get in trouble for energy mints?”
He is requesting an apology from the school while his father wants to see the teens’ readmitted to school and their records expunged.
According to the father, school staff called him and confirmed the students’ stories checked out, adding all of the individuals involved were cooperative when asked about the mints.
The suspension stands, though, keeping four students from not only attending school but the homecoming activities set for the following weekend. Parents should sleep easier knowing that while girls can receive abortion pills without parental notification in public school, at least the breath-freshening epidemic is under control.
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There are four classes of people who need to get out of government-run, tax-funded welfare schools: students, their parents, teachers, and taxpayers. All four suffer greatly at the hands of the bureaucrats and politicians who own and run these indoctrination centers.
Students don’t learn, and worse, are indoctrinated into the government-as-god philosophy that will destroy our country.
Their parents render their most precious possessions, their children, up on the altars of state education.
Teachers, at least those with moral values, must abandon their faith and their ethical standards because the boss mandates what they must teach, and restricts what they may teach.
Taxpayers bear the economic (and a host of other) costs of grtf-welfare schools. In average, in USmerica, a single student costs taxpayers well over $10,000 per year. A private school, on average, costs less than $6,000.
This monetary cost does not begin to account for the loss of the children’s minds when they are crippled by the grtf-welfare school curricula, by the regimentation, the brain-numbing monotony, by the total waste of their time and energy. I know many exceptionally bright students who, faced with the tedium of their classes, turned to drugs, like Sherlock Holmes, only for the stimulation, for a sense of being alive in their greyed-out school world.
We cannot afford a “free” education for any child. We must learn that “school” and “education” are not synonymous, indeed, that they are very nearly antonyms.
Mr. O’bama, where are the full-time Jobs? (And, while we’re a it, where are the war-zone absentee ballots, Mr. Commander-in-Chief?)
The real answer to this dilemma is to get this young woman out of that school and into one her parents control. Family-Centered Education (misleadingly called “home schooling”) is one outstanding option, but only one of many.
Government-run, tax-funded welfare schools are unsafe for children of any age. They exist because governments find them useful to mold the minds of future citizens into placid, compliant, tax-payers, and nothing more. Any “education” that happens in them is purely window dressing designed to keep the ruse going so more parents will send their children into these indoctrination camps.
M. O’bama, where are the full-time Jobs? (And, while we’re a it, where are the war-zone absentee ballots, Mr. Commander-in-Chief?)