Vice Principal punished for punishing
Friday, 9 May 2008 by Jacob TomawI am glad most people grow up in environments where the media and activists do not play a role.
A vice principal in New Jersey punished some kids by giving them lunch detention. They had to eat lunch on the gym floor. Not off the floor, but while seated upon the floor.
I can see Kevin, JR, Brian, Corey, Joe, and I having made a ruckus one day and being punished that way. These kids were in elementary school; when I was at Highland and we had finished lunch, our options were to sit on the floor along the walls or go outside for recess. When it rained there was on less option.
Why might this be news? Did I mention the principal is black and the kids are hispanic? The school district investigated and said the punishment was “demeaning and unsafe.”
If Jonah comes home and tells me something like this happened to him, it is another time I hear myself telling him, “So?”