[I can see what the principal was trying to do, but he didn't do it very well].
Posted on 10/13/2012 8:34:21 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
Turns out it was a crappy idea.
The principal of a Hell’s Kitchen HS that used to be among the most violent in the city had students using wooden toilet plungers as hall passes this school year.
The half-baked scheme by the second-year principal at the HS of Graphic Communication Arts that placed 2-foot-long plungers in every classroom last month immediately plunged the school into chaos, a source said.
“The kids were using the plungers to whack each other, to pop ceiling tiles in the bathroom,” the source said. “They were sticking it in the toilet and then flinging them across the classroom.”
The school had painted every plunger a different color and wrote the room number on each plastic cup.
Staffers raised their eyebrows when they learned that their old laminated hall passes were being replaced with a plumber’s tool — but they weren’t given an explanation for the swap, according to the source.
The unsanitary insanity continued for several weeks until the city Department of Education caught wind of it from school security officers and pooh-poohed the plan.
The school was ordered to collect the plungers late last month.
“This is clearly not condoned by DOE, and we put a stop to it,” said Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg. “We are investigating and considering next steps.”
Principal Brendan Lyons did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
Students said they wished he had spent less time worrying about the hall passes and more time worrying about their class schedules, which they said have been changed several times since the start of the school year.
Hundreds of kids spent the first week or two of school in the auditorium with nothing to do while administrators sorted out their schedules, students said.
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No wonder education is in the crapper.
Not a ping.
That was my best laugh of the week, thanks!
My greatest concern about this story is: Who wrote the headline and what have they done with the real NY Post headline writers?
Give a bunch of mindless monkeys such a tool.....they’ll cause mayhem every time.
Savages.
TruTV would make a killing with a new show, World’s Dumbest School Administrators.
TruTV would make a killing with a new show, World’s Dumbest School Administrators.
I attended a southern HS in the 70s that was almost exactly a 50/50 split between white and black students, and there was no behavior problem anywhere close to what the school in this story has.
It ain’t a race issue. It may be an issue of urban black culture, but that’s not the same as race (though postmodern racialist “scholars” might like to portray it as such).
I just noticed your tagline.
Heartily seconded.
OMG!!! What a DUMBASS idea!!!! It makes NO sense!! How old is Brendan Lyons, 7...8???
[I can see what the principal was trying to do, but he didn't do it very well].
That high school needs to start everyone in detention, and make them earn their ways out. I guess now their ball team will compete in the Tidy Bowl. /rimshot
Thanks Hunton Peck.
She didn't seem to understand what I meant when I warned her it would result in the MOADBI (Mother of all Dodge Ball Incidents).
He expected they would be so embarrassed to be seen carrying a tool a janitor would use that they would take fewer trips to the bath room smoke breaks.
It only took a few years of "higher" education for him to utterly forget being a normal teenaged boy. (OTOH, maybe this one was never normal)...
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