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January 11, 2008
Kids never learn
Spaghetti in Tomato Cream Sauce, originally uploaded by disneymike.
I swear, schools now-a-days. Back when I was in school, you had a food fight, you got thrown in detention for a couple of days. I'm not sure what has precipitated this crackdown, but kids in Wisconsin who started a food fight found themselves thrown in jail instead of detention:
It was a costly food fight for some students at Monona Grove High School, and some parents said that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
Seven students, ages 17 and 18, are facing fines of nearly $300 each and four-day school suspensions for slinging spaghetti at the cafeteria pasta bar last month.
Junior Dave Peiss said that it was a "total, complete mess" after the food fight.
School administrators said that they wanted to take a hard line against such behavior.
I don't know what to think about this. You'd think that by now, school administrators would have come to the realization that kids are kids, and they sometimes do idiotic things, like start food fights. Unless there are some extenuating circumstances, like, I don't know, there were many other food fights before this and it then caused a riot, this is clearly overreacting.
entry no. 1056
Posted at January 11, 2008 04:37 PM