Same Sex Kiss Gets HS Girls Suspended, But Praise from Mothers

ABC News ^ | November 16, 2003 | Various

[BJungNan]

My protest in H.S. was to do a four wheel drive burnout on the lawn.

Does epoxy in the classroom door locks the night before the first day of school qualify?

[Yeti]

Okay, I see you got it. I missed the pic by text searching the page.

[cincinnati65]

Exactly. Since when is an acceptable classroom assignment to perform a "non-conformist" act? High school is all about conformity!!!!

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Does epoxy in the classroom door locks the night before the first day of school qualify?

Good one! I also chained the teachers in the teacher's lounge during the day. A few classes went without teachers while the janitor, oh, excuse me... the Sanitation Engineer, went to find bolt cutters. My protest was a success for about two hours. Unlike the H.S. lawn job I wasn't punished (or caught) for this one.

Of course there was also the harmless smoke bomb in the courtyard. Man can the teachers run out of a school building fast!

All just protests for various humanitarian causes... yup...

[Tax-chick]

You should listen to Alan Keyes, instead. He doesn't even use notes, and yet every sentence, no matter how complex, diagrams perfectly.

[Steve Eisenberg]

That hardly qualifies as a non-conformist act.

I completely disagree. The assignment was to violate society's rules without breaking the law. That they did. The fact that they got suspended and not arrested proved that their action conformed with law but failed to conform with rules.

Discipline the teacher, and give the girls an A for the doing exactly as asked in the stupidist school assignment imaginable. Oh, and fire the principal for offical oppression of the students.

The teacher's instructions for the assignment include the exlusion of illegal or inappropriate acts while completing the work.

I love that word "inappropriate." Not. By definition, non-conformity is inappropriate.

[Cobra64]

I listen to H&C regularly. I have to say, he, Alan Colmes (see Sean would not have clarified who "he" is), is well "Englished."

My only problem with Alan is that Alan is a flaming socialist.

[Steve Eisenberg]

Good one! I also chained the teachers in the teacher's lounge during the day. A few classes went without teachers while the janitor, oh, excuse me... the Sanitation Engineer, went to find bolt cutters. My protest was a success for about two hours. Unlike the H.S. lawn job I wasn't punished (or caught) for this one.

Now here is a man who know what nonconformity is all about.

[Tax-chick]

a flaming socialist

Well, I would find that a series problem! Alan Keyes doesn't leave antecedents undefined - your "he who?" problem - or modifiers dangling. A mind-boggling use of language, even when one disagrees with him (Dr. Keyes, I mean :-).

[Tax-chick]

By definition, non-conformity is inappropriate.

I must disagree. Non-conformity is simply "not what most other people are doing."

Appropriateness is a different issue. If most girls are kissing boys in the lunchroom, while our young lady (will she look just like her mom in 20 years?) is kissing a girl, who's "inappropriate"? I'd say all of them (someone else might say none of them :-) ... but only one is "non-conforming."

[sgtbono2002]

I was thinking of the song" I wonder who's kissing her now", Probably Mom.

[petitfour]

Would have been interesting if your class had performed Shakespeare as Shakespeare did--with all male casts. Real cute to see Romeo romancing Juliet (a man dressed up as a female). They didn't teach that in Junior or Senior High when I was in school. I learned that in college. It made Shakespeare worth reading. There is so much humor in Shakespeare that is lost on today's audiences because we are ignorant of the culture for which he wrote.

[gitmo]

How about a non-conformist act like cleaning up after yourself, walking calmly through the halls, or doing all your homework?

Or wearing a FreeRepublic tee shirt?

[EGPWS]

I love that word "inappropriate." Not. By definition, non-conformity is inappropriate.

Look at the bright side of this scenario. 2+2(STILL)=5.

[Tax-chick]

I gave a friend of my daughter's an NRA t-shirt: "The 2nd Amendment - America's original Homeland Security." She was planning to wear it to school ... probably nothing happened, since it was Oklahoma!

[Enterprise]

They could change the words of the song and it could be "My girl lollypop, you make my heart go giddy up."

[Timesink]

Let's see, does the term "moronic" or "idiotic" or "just plain stupid" come to mind when describing this act?

I was thinking more along the lines of "exhibitionist" and "slut" myself...

[Cobra64]

Dr. Keyes?

[RedMonqey]

"part of an English class assignment that required students to perform a "non-conformist" act."


Do you think the teacher(or the mom for that matter) would have given the girl an "A" if she jumped on the table and shouted"Heil Hitler" ?

Nah. That's not the Political Correct kind
of "non-conformist"

[Steve Eisenberg]

I must disagree. Non-conformity is simply "not what most other people are doing."

Appropriateness is a different issue. If most girls are kissing boys in the lunchroom, while our young lady (will she look just like her mom in 20 years?) is kissing a girl, who's "inappropriate"? I'd say all of them (someone else might say none of them :-) ... but only one is "non-conforming."

What I'd really like to see is what this teacher actually considers to be an "A" job on this assignment. This would help clarify how you can be truly non-conformist without people being shocked by your inappropriateness.