An update on my 'meep' post from a few weeks ago. It looks like the Principal is still waving around his limited understanding of Tinker vs. Des Moines and any other USSC ruling on speech in a classroom setting, now going after students saying nothing, but wearing t-shirts saying 'meep'. Here is the original furor.
It's bad enough that our schools treat almost adults as children, and then turns them loose and tries to abstain from any shared blame in the young adults' ability to live in the real world. It's worse that the the schools seem to think that teaching them to be meep to authority and to just do as you are told is somehow indicative of the 'real world'. I happen to work a job where I have enough autonomy to just about kill myself and anyone working on my team *figuratively*-and I know many grown up types that have similar jobs. I love it, for the most part, and I didn't get to it, or get to knowing my work style by bending over in HS and taking it from administrators when I knew i was right. Danvers has a *ahem* colored history of dealing with those that speak and act in a manner that is not within the 'norm'.
I hope that some of these enterprising student's parents sue the school to within an inch of its life, for no other reason that to prompt them to re-visit their hiring policies. I harbor no ill will to the school, but until you show them the money, the are generally loathe to move on much of anything. Go Danvers! Go MEEP.
