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Boy suspended from school for drinking shandy
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rules are rules. I wouldn't have given him the suspension there, but just told him he can't drink that here and tell his mother.
of course it's exaggerated, but still...
And every fool will mind it.
Unfortuntely, school is statutory until the age of 16 so the kids have to deal with it. Most children manage. The small percentage who decide to rebel against the system have to deal with it.
"But when he attempted to drink it at school, a teacher took the can from him, emptied it on the grass and put him in isolation for two hours, she said"
That's not being suspended. So, if he was suspended, then it would have been a combination of other factors. Fancy that. Imagine a news story not giving all the facts.
The title does say suspended, but it does not seem to be referenced in the article.
He should have just drunk some coffee instead and offered to make one for the teacher. When I was at school, they used to practically live on the stuff. I was once doing some work for the deputy headmaster at the secondary school. I've never seen a man drink so much coffee in my life.
Well that makes it all OK then :rolleyes:
I guess from the sarcastic smiley you think it's not ok?
What's your solution? Perhaps you think that the teachers should just let the kids do whatever they like?
Are you sure because AFAIK it's education, not school that's mandatory?
There's a generation of idiots growing up because of thinking like that. He broke the rules, he is punished, simple as.
So many times I meet youngsters who think that the rules don't apply to them, that everyone somehow owes them something, that if they misbehave it doesn't matter because someone else will come along and sort their life out for them.
Suspect that's the kind of suspension that the article means, and is just trying to be sensasionalist.
I'd be careful about calling me an idiot, poppet, first of all:)
Second of all, it isn't as simple as "he broke the rules, simple as". A rule should not be obeyed blindly simply because it is a rule.
If the rule is stupid, pointless and nonsensical (as a ban on drinking a popular carbonated beverage outside during a school break surely is) then I fail to see why that rule should be obeyed.
If he was drinking it in class, or pouring it down someone's top, then fair enough, he should be punished. But if he was drinking a drink he was legally allowed to drink, during his own time, then the teacher is an idiot and needs to seriously get a life. A P45 would help them immeasurably.
Obviously authority keeps its control by creating stupid rules and then enforcing them rigidly. You can't drink pop outside in the school yard, you can't smoke in your own car in an NHS car park, the list gets longer and longer every day. How ridiculous.
I'm not calling you an idiot, far from it!!!
I'm just saying there is a generation of young people (not all, but quite a few) who have grown up being allowed to do what they want, where it be their parents, the schools or the government.
By not enforcing the rules the kids think it's ok to do what they want. There will have been more to this story then they are letting on, chances are it's a rule break in a long series of misbehaviour. If it's just for this one thing then it's a bit OTT but I doubt it is this one thing.