So, those crazy kids at Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook have found themselves quite infamous this week. A powder puff game gone bad, some say. I say, however, it’s just a large group of kids being kids. Unfortunately, I think this is probably closer to the truth: they were being animals. What will come of this all? Who knows?
There are parents outraged that the school wasn’t there to supervise and that the school may not be able to hand out very many punishments related to the incident. I don’t think the school should hand out very many punishments. It happened off campus, and the school has long since broken its sponsorship of this tradition. In fact, the school hasn’t endoresed this tradition since the early 80s!
Why should the school be responsible for the bad parenting that allowed this sort of thing to happen? The school already made its opinion known more than twenty years ago: the powder puff game is not something the school sees as being a positive experience. The parents of both the juniors and seniors, if they are now so concerned about the game, should have been there themselves to supervise the event. I’m hearing parents outraged that the school wasn’t there to police it, and this is just a retarded line of thought.
Why is it that parents blame a school for everything wrong in their kids’ lives, and almost never praise a school for anything good in their kids’ lives? Oh, I know. The current mentality of people is that the school is responsible for raising their children. The school should teach them the fundamentals: reading, values, morals, etc. After all, that’s why we have health education, driver education, kids in high school who can’t read, and violent kids without remorse for their actions.
Anyways, time to go to work. Maybe I’ll write more today since I’ll be flying solo tonight. We’ll see.
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