Touche LC! Far Be it From Me....
...To ever shy away from the possibility that I might be wrong..
Well, I got pissed yesterday with that whole no hugging business, and my friend Ryan all but put the gun in my hand by supplying me with the principle's email address....Well, here's what happened.
I give you "LC Reacts Irrationally to an Item on the Internets and Promptly Gets Her Ass Handed to Her."
Yesterday, Sometime in the Afternoon.
LC:
"It's bad enough that teachers, who are essentially in some cases primary caregivers to children, are not allowed to initiate hugs or other displays of affection... but now you want to keep kids from hugging on school grounds?
Hm. Wonder how Columbine would have turned out if those kids had been encouraged to hug a little more.
You're an idiot. And you are everything that is wrong with the American Public School System.
In an age where people barely even talk face to face anymore, taking away a basic human form of communication and contact is dangerous.
Also, please re-read 1984 and Brave New World respectively."
Thank you.
This Morning.
Victoria Sharts, Principal:
"I hope you realize that the news may not always be accurately portrayed. I had repeatedly told the reporter that we do not have a ban on hugging, yet what was reported was what makes news rather than the reality. We have discouraged the lines of hugging when students move to the next class just as we discourage stopping and talking at length when they are to walking to class.
We have not "banned" hugs, we do not have a policy banning hugs. We do realize the importance of a hug, for a child or for an adult. I'm sorry that the news media created a story by adding their own words that created a story rather than reported the truth."
So, apparently, there's some muckraking going on at this school. (And carpet bagging!)
But anyway, it reminds me of the witch hunt that went on at my school against our principal. There were some parents who disagreed with her and did their damndest to get her gone, so to speak. It was an ugly, messy business, especially when she, while not perfect, was such a positive influence in so many peoples' lives.
Anyway, apologies to Ms. Sharts, and I hope that CBS news prints some kind of correction about what is actually going on.
Also, Settle Down Reporters. There's plenty to report on truthfully without you people getting all reactionary and Terror Alert Burnt Sienna on everybody.
Jeez.
Well, I got pissed yesterday with that whole no hugging business, and my friend Ryan all but put the gun in my hand by supplying me with the principle's email address....Well, here's what happened.
I give you "LC Reacts Irrationally to an Item on the Internets and Promptly Gets Her Ass Handed to Her."
Yesterday, Sometime in the Afternoon.
LC:
"It's bad enough that teachers, who are essentially in some cases primary caregivers to children, are not allowed to initiate hugs or other displays of affection... but now you want to keep kids from hugging on school grounds?
Hm. Wonder how Columbine would have turned out if those kids had been encouraged to hug a little more.
You're an idiot. And you are everything that is wrong with the American Public School System.
In an age where people barely even talk face to face anymore, taking away a basic human form of communication and contact is dangerous.
Also, please re-read 1984 and Brave New World respectively."
Thank you.
This Morning.
Victoria Sharts, Principal:
"I hope you realize that the news may not always be accurately portrayed. I had repeatedly told the reporter that we do not have a ban on hugging, yet what was reported was what makes news rather than the reality. We have discouraged the lines of hugging when students move to the next class just as we discourage stopping and talking at length when they are to walking to class.
We have not "banned" hugs, we do not have a policy banning hugs. We do realize the importance of a hug, for a child or for an adult. I'm sorry that the news media created a story by adding their own words that created a story rather than reported the truth."
So, apparently, there's some muckraking going on at this school. (And carpet bagging!)
But anyway, it reminds me of the witch hunt that went on at my school against our principal. There were some parents who disagreed with her and did their damndest to get her gone, so to speak. It was an ugly, messy business, especially when she, while not perfect, was such a positive influence in so many peoples' lives.
Anyway, apologies to Ms. Sharts, and I hope that CBS news prints some kind of correction about what is actually going on.
Also, Settle Down Reporters. There's plenty to report on truthfully without you people getting all reactionary and Terror Alert Burnt Sienna on everybody.
Jeez.
posted by LC Greenwood at 1:53 PM
3 Comments:
My apologies to Ms Sharts as well. But only for her unfortunate name. Yikes.
Wow, look at you - baking your own humble pie and eating the thing.
You're a bigger person than I am -- after that response I'd have just cringed and pretended I hadn't sent the email in the first place.
Wow! You got schooled!
I'm very sorry. I couldn't resist. It's the medication talking.
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