Cruel intentions
There's enough drama in today's high schools, with broken families, school violence and academic pressures without administrators dreaming up life lessons intended to traumatize the students. In an effort to teach students the dangers of driving and drinking, students at El Camino High School were told their friends were dead. We objected to such a cruel tactic in an editorial Saturday, saying this was an abuse of authority. Schools cannot use corporal punishment on children and they should not be able to inflict emotional injury on them either. Read the editorial by clicking here.
The reaction was predictable: crying, a cellphone blitz, hysterics. What do you think? Would you support such a lesson for yourself or your children?
Comments
At the juncture of its fall from greatness, having turned cruel, having forbidden the practice of the arts, having become anti-intellectual, the City State Sparta treated its kids worth.
Posted by: IsabellLawson | June 16, 2008 7:36 PM
They just took their cue from the current administration, " don't let the smoking gun become a mushroom cloud," and the poor innocent citizens, scared witless, wrung their hands and cried,...examples start at the top.
Posted by: swift | June 16, 2008 7:52 PM
That is ludicris. If they did that to my child they would wish they were dead.
Posted by: Jackie Krage | June 16, 2008 8:24 PM
I apologize! The word should have been worse instead of worth. Apparently my typing skills are no better than my knowledge of the computer. Perhaps I should stick to quill and inkwell.
Characterizing the hoax ludicrous is like saying
Hitler was unkind. This indescribably cruel hoax, perpetrated in the name of the students' safety must have been conceived at the Guantanomo Bay resort....
Posted by: Isabell Lawson | June 17, 2008 8:38 AM