Schools are Overcrowded Anyway
Especially in the nation’s most populous state, California. Apparently in Seaside, school administrators thought that elementary school children needed a quick lesson from the school of hard knocks or that they should just die rather than someone not going through all the bullshit red tape to go home when that someone feels too awful to attend class. Read for yourself below…
“The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District in Seaside, California has just proven the age-old saying, ‘no good deed goes unpunished.’
15-year-old Marina High School student, Amanda Rouse, felt ill on her way to school last Wednesday morning, and decided to stay on her bus as it picked up elementary school students. The driver would take her home after the elementary route was finished.
However, by doing this, she didn’t follow proper procedure for leaving school grounds with her illness (checking out at the office, getting parent approval, etc.).
While the bus was driving the elementary route, the driver fell out of her seat at a sharp turn, and struck her head. The bus veered to the side and began hitting parked cars.
Rouse immediately jumped into action, hopped in the driver’s seat, applied the brakes and brought the bus to a safe stop.
So what does the school district do in response to this heroic act? Rouse was slapped with a weekend detention for ‘cutting class.’
The problem here is that years of absolute zero-tolerance thinking have left public school administrators with a very black and white attitude – no room for grey areas, no room for judging each infraction on its own merits.
Rouse should not be punished, she should be praised. School administration should waive the detention and instead thank this girl for her quick-thinking act of bravery.”
This story begs the question, don’t the drivers’ seats have seat belts?
Forget it, obviously this bunch of school administrators is more concerned with students following the rules than its own employees, since the driver should have been buckled up and the student rewarded for saving lives. Who do I blame? The administrators? Hardly, these people are harmless numbskulls who are content with their meaningless authority and pithy ability to enforce their authority. Most would be likely too weak to even challenge the student if she were to refuse to show up for her “breakfast club” session. No, I blame the limp wristed judges who have allowed their greedy lawyer buddies to turn our legal system into the ultimate get rich quick scheme. This has turned school systems along with many other well intended functions and institutions into a brainless, mindless hell scape of no-man’s-land between the opposing forces of legal liability and the pathetically redundant, burdensome, ridiculous, politically correct, and often contradictory code of rules, which are so powerful and almighty, that you cannot break them, apparently not even to actually save the life of some little kids. Why? Because those are the rules. Don’t question them. We might get sued if we allow you to break those rules. Who else do I blame? Pussies. In this case, if this teenager’s parents or legal guardians allow her to serve that detention, they are even more to blame than anyone on any school board or any courtroom. People like that allow themselves to be bullied and hasten autocracy. If you cherish freedom, every once in awhile, you’ve just got to bow up and use a little bit of it.
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