Heavens to Betsy. I don’t know whether to be pleased or apalled that some school administrators aren’t focusing all their time on suspending students for pseudo-violent behavior. Instead, some are pursuing pseudo-lacivious behavior, as is the case here, where a football player was given a two day “in-school suspesion,” including being kept out of playing in the homecoming game, for …
… attacking his girlfriend?
… groping his girlfriend?
… fondling his girlfriend?
… dropping to the ground atop his girlfriend (or vice-versa)?
… liplocking with his girlfriend, with Maximum Tongue Action™?
Nope. For giving his girlfriend a kiss on the forehead.
Imagine what would have happened had he kissed her hand, Southern Gentlemanliness or no.
The district considers “inappropriate” contact between students a no-no and leaves it up to principals to decide exactly what is inappropriate.
Yeah, because that’s a way to ensure clear, consistent, and non-arbitrary exercise of power.
Rodney Bowler, Union Grove principal, said kissing, hugging excessively and other physical contact distracts students from academics.
“We run a strong academic environment in which kissing is not an activity that needs to take place in the school building,” he said.
Yeah, it should take place out by the bike racks, like it did in my days.
Come on. Was he smooching with his sweetie in class? Nope. In the library? Nope. In study hall? Nope. In the hallway. What sort of “academics” was he being distracted from while there?
And how come the girl (who presumably gave up her forehead to the kiss willingly) isn’t getting busted for this?
If anything is being learned from this, it’s not chaste restraint and focus on academics within school walls. It’s hyperbole, as the suspended student laments:
“It hurt me so bad, my senior year missing my homecoming game. I’m going to be scarred for life. I’ll have no stories to tell my kids.”
Ridiculous. And, let me guess…….these same administrators would probably allow that same player to stay on the team if he’d been accused of date rape……..but, since he wasn’t, that innocent kiss on the forehead is grounds for suspension.
Can I call the administrators fucktards here in your comments? I don’t want to offend anyone….thought I should ask first.
I have to disagree with the student, though, when he says, “I’ll have no stories to tell my kids.” He’s got a real doozy to tell them! (Though, if the administrators have their way, he’ll never have the opportunity to sire children.)
Well, date rape would, presumably, happen off-campus, so it wouldn’t detract from the academic environment.
And it most likely wouldn’t be witnessed by a vice-principal, who is, after all, an incontrovertible source.