How to raise a generation of malleable, subservient suckups
What to do when uppity students start to take the concept of equality before the law seriously? Simple. As Tom Knapp characterized it in the edition of Rational Review News Digest published today:
Principal busted, so student suspended
The short version: a high school student in Rhode Island got suspended shortly after taking pictures of the principal smoking a cigarette just outside the doors of the school — illegal under a law against smoking within 25 feet of the school.
Personally, I’m against smoking bans — but that’s not the point. High school principals being high school principals and high school students being high school students — the principal was obviously involved in enforcing that ban on a day to day basis, even if she never had anyone cuffed and stuffed in the back of a black-and-white patrol cruiser over it.
When those in authority have a practice of “one law for me and another for thee”, there is a term for that — “corruption”. Obviously, that’s not in terms of the relatively recent, more narrow definition of corruption as bribery, but it is definitely rotten.
So, when school authorities engage in an apparent practice of retribution like this, what lessons are really being taught?
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