The first generation raised under “zero tolerance” enters the workforce.
The Desert Sands school district spent $45,000 for consulting fees and training for its new bullying policy; a price tag some say was too much, considering the district faces a $15 million budget shortfall for the next school year, according to Superintendent Sharon McGehee.
“I just think the money should go toward the kids, not the adults,”
I think the money should go towards the purchase of leather straps and wooden yardsticks, but that’s just me.
Isn’t “workforce” rather inappropriate? Especially
the “work” part?
I remember the “strap” and the nervous dread standing outside the principle’s office waiting your turn. Worse than the actual punishment actually. Mind you, the worry of your parents finding out was a worse form of punishment.
In those days, parents didn’t bring their lawyer to parent-teacher interviews either.
The only time I ever got the strap I was terrified that my parents would find out (never did tell them) and the only one who cried from the strapping was the vice principal who administered it. The whole school heard him snuffling over the PA as he told the entire school that he had to strap three boys during the lunch break.
And it’s in California, what a shocker….