First of all; Meep.
Second of all; seriously, some principles really are full of themselves. They just have to prove to their students they are the King of the playground. And they are suppose to be the adults.
Sigh.
I understand that anyone can be a terrorist. But seriously, a Muppet?
Second of all; seriously, some principles really are full of themselves. They just have to prove to their students they are the King of the playground. And they are suppose to be the adults.
....we have the problem of the lawyers who say Meep! After reading the recent publications over the decision of the principal of Danvers High School banning students from saying the word "Meep," Entertainment lawyer Theodora Michaels decided to act and wrote a letter using the four-letter word to Principal Thomas Murray, who comes across as a high school version of Dean Vernon Wormer from Animal House. She was immediately reported to the police for investigation by the school.Here is the entire letter:
An open letter to Principal Murray of Danvers High School (MA):
Meep.
Sincerely,
Theodora MichaelsShe says that the response was fast and furious: "Yesterday I received a reply email from Assistant Principal Mark Strout, which said (in full) "Your E-mail has been forwarded to the Danvers Police Department."
Principal Thomas Murray is not only the Jack Ass Of The Day, he is a fucking idiot.
Murray stumbled on a conspiracy on Facebook where he learned that kids in the Danvers High School in Massachusetts intended to say "Meep!" in school -- mimicking the lab assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, of "The Muppet Show."A conspiracy? Oh. My. FSM! The terrorists will win if the kids say Meep!
Sigh.
I understand that anyone can be a terrorist. But seriously, a Muppet?
The entire purpose of being a teenager is to annoy adults. It is no fun if the adults don't react. Your survival as a teacher or the supervisor of young people is to not react unless it is something serious, which is not very difficult to determine - you're dealing with teenagers, not rocket scientists.
In this case the kids won a major league victory and are laughing like hell at this idiot. If I was working at the local police department, I would have written a lengthy report and made sure it got to the media. [My chief hated it when I did that. Every jurisdiction has pompous, self-important jerks who annoy their police agencies.]
This principle needs to spend a few hours with Monty Python to learn how to deal with teenagers, although I suspect that he wouldn't understand "Peanuts" without a lots of help, and Charles Schultz wasn't exactly obtuse.
Oops, should be principal, not principle.
My gawd, there really are jackasses of the day - thank you so much for posting this and pointing them out - get your act together people!