FEDERAL WAY (AP) — Two high school boys got a stern talking to after swallowing goldfish at a school assembly. Animal rights activists think they deserved harsher punishment.
After learning about the stunt late last month, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals urged Federal Way Public Schools to adopt a district-wide policy prohibiting the use of animals in school functions.
“We feel certain you’ll agree that killing fish in the name of school spirit is unacceptable,” wrote Jennifer O’Connor, an official with the Norfolk, Va.-based group.
“If the reports we received are accurate, this cruel spectacle has no place in Federal Way public schools. Given the proliferation of violence in the schools, it is imperative that we teach compassion for all living beings rather than publicly encouraging cruelty to animals,” O’Connor added.
Federal Way Schools Superintendent Tom Murphy replied that he asked one of his deputies to “reiterate to all our principals that this type of activity is never appropriate and should never occur in our schools.”
The district has instituted a policy requiring school principals to review student presentations to be made during school assemblies, a duty that was previously handled by a teacher or adviser.
My comments: Dude, kids should not be swallowing fish at a school assembly. Yeah, it's cruel, but it is also gross. But come on, should a principal have to review every presentation scheduled for an assembly? What a waste of time. Some kids at Todd Beamer High School do something stupid and everyone in the district has to pay. Lame.
Schools ban some dances as being too explicit:
Spokane-area parents and school officials freak over teens’ ‘freaking’ dance style
SPOKANE (AP) — Central Valley High School has become the latest Spokane-area school to ban informal dances, known as mixers, because of sexually explicit dancing called “freaking.”
The style involves grinding and gyrating against a dance partner or several people at once in what one school administrator said looks like having sex with clothes on.
“I think part of the issue is that the students don’t know how to dance to the type of music that is being played now,” Central Valley Principal Mike Hittle said. “It’s what they see on MTV, and in the clubs, and it’s gotten to the point where it is just inappropriate.”
Prior to a Sadie Hawkins dance scheduled for Oct. 29, teachers will offer dance classes to students who want to learn another way to dance.
Proms and other formal date dances are still allowed at Greater Spokane League schools, but informal mixers are banned at most.
After staff turned on the lights because some students were dancing inappropriately at a recent dance, Mount Spokane High School student leaders voted to do away with mixers.
“Our student leadership looked at it and just said that’s not what we’re about,” Vice Principal Jim Preston said.
“We will still try to create opportunities for students to come together and celebrate, but we just want it to be in an appropriate or positive manner.”
My comments: Too much freakin' in Spocompton! The school folks say, "We're not gonna take it anymore!" So now, kids in Spokane will have to freak on their own time, which they were probably doing anyway. And the nice kids are left out in the cold.
Washington woman booted off flight over T-shirt with Bush, Cheney and Rice
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Woodland, Wash., woman was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing a T-shirt that bore an expletive and images of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Lorrie Heasley said she plans to press a civil-rights complaint against the airline over Tuesday's action at Reno-Tahoe International Airport, halfway through Heasley's scheduled trip from Los Angeles to Portland.
"I have cousins in Iraq and other relatives going to war," Heasley told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "Here we are trying to free another country and I have to get off an airplane ... over a T-shirt. That's not freedom." Complete story.
My comments: This passenger is right -- it is not freedom for her to have to get off a flight because of a T-shirt, especially one she wore for a portion of the flight. In the words of Vice President Cheney, Southwest can go f*** itself.
Crazy stuff in the news, for sure.
-- Wenatchee, Wash.
6 comments:
"She agreed to cover the words with a sweatshirt, but when the sweatshirt slipped while she was trying to sleep, she was ordered to wear her T-shirt inside-out or leave."
Wow, she really wasn't kicked off the flight for that. She was kicked off for not doing something she was asked. Are businesses losing more and more rights every day? Sure seems like it...
The business has a deal with the customer to take the person to the desired destination for a fee. The t-shirt posed no threat to anyone. Why should she have to cover it?
How sad to see individual freedoms threatened everywhere, even in the air!
Same reason why we kick people out of Godfathers' pizza for using their hands to take slices of pizza off the buffet after we've asked them not to. Not posing a threat, not a health violation, but it bothers the customers.
Bad analogy, anonymous. Pizza is consumed, so your example is a health risk. T-shirts are not a threat on a plane.
Wrongo buddy. It's NOT a health risk (as I stated earlier). It's only a health risk to not have servers ready to use on the buffet.
That last post was posted by me.
As someone who also worked in the food industry, specifically with a pizza place that served by the slice, I know this is considered a health risk. What is on people's hands can get on the pizza. Thus, we also have handlers with gloves, sneeze guards, the server utensils, etc.
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