Overkill or No Kill at All

[Aemilius Paulus]

Are you drunk?

Huh? Why do you say so?

Apparently common sense isn't as common as we thought. Have her stay after school to scrub the desk clean or clean all the desks in the classroom of gum, boogers, and whatnot. People should let their school board know this over-reaction shouldn't be tolerated, unfortunately most are probably too apathetic to care.

It is like this in every school, all the time. Or from what I saw so far in all the places I have been, attended, or had friends attend schools at.Punishment is very formal, very standardised, very bureaucratic, and teachers write off referrals one after another. Everything goes to the dean and then it goes on your permanent record. Suspension usually follows. Suspension has got to be the most illogical punishment ever devised (those who want good grades get a double whammy for missing school and receiving zeroes while the real troublemakers revel in a chance to skip school with no other consequences ), but it is widespread.