Birthday happies, ChiKat!
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Please tell me not to go next door and appropriate some cookies. They'll just make me feel sick. I have no idea why I want them.
I am really not into being at work today.
You know if the school ignored the pictures and these kids went Columbine on the school, then someone would have pointed to those MySpace pictures and say "someone should have done something".
I don't know anything about this particular situation, but I will say that suspending kids doesn't actually do anything to stop them from coming to the school to do bad things, if that's what they want.
Oh, and apparently I missed two different sets of cupcakes yesterday! WTF.
Oh, and apparently I missed two different sets of cupcakes yesterday! WTF.
Maybe you have some sort of mental block that prevents you from seeing cupcakes. Have you had bad experiences with cupcakes in the past?
Heh. No, I was out of the office, and the cupcakes were in the office.
Happy b-day, ChiKat!
Heh. No, I was out of the office, and the cupcakes were in the office.
I have this all the time. My department is in the next building or a bus ride away, depending on which location I'm in today. They're very good about sending out an email that says, hey, everyone, there are cupcakes, but are there ever any left...?
The real question is, what makes these parents think that a lawsuit against the school is the best way to educate their children? "Junior, nobody can stop you from acting out Scarface if you really want to! Go ahead and call your little sister a bitch, too!"
Thanks a lot, mom and dad.
And I admit, there's a part of me that thinks, "You're under 18. You have no free speech yet."
Right. There are a jillion court cases to the effect that while the under-18 do have some rights, most of those rights are adulterated by a school's interest in being safe and orderly.
(There's also the "you're a dumbass" angle, by which I mean I could only laugh at you harder if you joked about being a terrorist in an airport security line.)