The Kid Is Alright …
… But local officials have lost their minds.
The BBC had this, Boy held for ‘killing pet dinosaur’, in their weird news section.
It takes place in South Carolina where a 16-year-old high school student was given an assignment to write something in the ‘Facebook status update style’. [I was unable to locate this ‘style’ in the Modern Language Association style guide, and cannot conceive of an actual need to be familiar with it.]
Giving the assignment all of the seriousness it deserved, he wrote about his plan to kill his neighbor’s ‘pet dinosaur’, and the school went bananas. Then the local police went bananas when he was ‘difficult’ in questioning and arrested him on a charge of ‘disturbing the school’.
I can certainly agree that both the school and the police are seriously disturbed based on their reaction, and I think the boy’s desire to be home-schooled is definitely the best course, because the diploma from a school that assigns papers written in the ‘Facebook status update style’ and doesn’t recognize a joke is hardly likely to be taken seriously.
August 22, 2014 3 Comments
Friday Cat Blogging
The New Kits
But I’m not tired, Mom!
[Editor: Ms Underhouse showed up with two brown mackerel tabbies and a grey that look like about 6 weeks and ready for weaning.
August 22, 2014 3 Comments
