I was in elementary school right about the time overbearing idiot parents and school administrators met the critical mass required to implement stupidity.O Really wrote:I don't know if this belongs in "Education" or wingnuttery, or just Texas stupidity, but here goes ...San Antonio - effin' San Antonio!" school district bans sunscreen for kids and considers it a "medicine" that the kids "might eat."
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Like school students everywhere for all eternity all the way back to the time of cave-men, we had to carry books around with us to class. Our particular podunk school didn't have lockers, so we had to carry maybe three books tops. Well some little sissy kid cried to mom and pops that his back hurt from carrying around books in his backpack. So did a few other kids. I clearly remember mine never hurting. Well, this caused an uproar amongst the well-to-do overbearing parents.
"This is bullshit! My little precious snowflake comes home with his back hurting because he is forced to carry books around in his backpack at your concentration camp! This needs to stop!"
School decided something had to get done because they didn't want Jane-Soccer-Mom to sue them for causing their kid to become a wheel chair bound invalid. And what did they do? Well seeing as how backpacks are heavy and hurting kids backs, starting next week, kids are no longer prohibited to carry books in their backpacks. They either have to buy those backpacks with wheels on them, or carry them by in their hands.
I was in seventh grade when this happened. For the next few semesters I had to now lug 3+ text books around by hand instead of in my backpack. This wasa huge pain in the ass and just made things worse. I shit you not. This is a 100% true story.
How's that logic for you?