Pic Of Sleeping Sub Nets Student Suspension
The story: Substitute teacher falls asleep in class, student uses cellphone to snap a picture to show to administrators who promptly bust student for violating school policy against use of cellphones during school. Punish the messenger and, more or less, disregard the message.
Rather than thank the student for bringing to their attention a grossly negligent substitute teacher, the administrators at the Oklahoma school punish the messenger because he broke a school policy of not using telecommunications devices during the school day.
So, if he'd used a digital camera without a cellular connection to take the photo, then taken that camera to the computer lab at the school or home to download it and then email it to the administrators, then everything would be hunky dorey? I doubt it. Seems like these administrators were embarrassed by this teacher's dereliction of duty and sought to diminish the messenger to avoid the message.
The school officials refused to comment on what sort of disciplinary action might befall the sleepy teacher but they were all too happy to discuss the student getting suspended for breaking their stupid rule.
What if the kid had used his cell phone to record a violent crime being committed? Would they still suspend him? Zero-tolerance policies are almost always used in places where people are too friggin' stupid to be able to think for themselves.
I feel bad for people who live in Oklahoma, there's a good reason it's firmly on my fly-over list. I'm sure there are good people in Oklahoma and probably nice things to do but if a state institution is being run by ignorant bureaucratic jackasses then I'd just as soon not visit or contribute my money to their stupidity. And that's money I have a choice over, did you know that most of these backwards ass stupid states take waaay more in Federal aid than they give back? Yeah. And then they have Tea Party rallies to decry entitlements. Dumbasses.
Rule #377 is Punishing the Messenger is Stupid
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