🚀 go-pugleaf

Alan Michelson wrote:

> > "Ken M." <poboxdc@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:3A14D0E0.941A40CD@ix.netcom.com...
> > >
> > > Handcuffed and arrested for eating French fries in a Metro
> > > station, 12-year-old Ansche Hedgepeth may now be kicked off
> > > her double-dutch jump-rope team or even suspended from school
> > > for her snacking infraction.
>
> I supposed that this seems to come from a law-and-order attitude of the
> public; they want transit companies to crack down on passengers.  In
> other words, to treat passengers like criminals!
>
> I remember when I went to "junior high" (or intermediate) school back in
> the early-1960's (during the Beatles era but before the revolution of
> the late 1960's), that gum chewing and sunglasses were illegal on the
> campus; but a violation meant a trip to the vice-principal's office for
> detention or "non-privilege" (meaning no social events, intramural
> sports [e.g. jump-roping?], etc.).  You had to do something drastic
> (like smoke-bombing) to get suspended from school.

In our area a child who brings an Advil to school gets same the penalty as the child who beats
another senseless. These school administrators have no common sense or backbone!

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