Every year, Aycock Middle School holds three or four student dances. The first of this year's, and the first ever for my sixth grader Jesse was to have been this past Friday night.
Despite all of the anticipation, build-up, permission slips and pre-paid admission - the dance was abruptly cancelled via afternoon announcements Friday. The reason - a few kids got into a food fight in the cafeteria.
Education is not all about books, you know... it also should take the form of everyday life-lessons from teachers and administrators. How does it make sense for my child, and 98% of Aycock's well-behaved student body, to be punished for the actions of a few food fighters? The vast majority of the student body is being made to answer for something that is not in their (or my) control. This is the same type of thinking that brought school uniforms onto Aycock's campus two years ago: make everyone pay for the behavior/bad choices of a few bad apples. It is faulty logic as well as an example of lazy, inneffective, unfair discipline meting... and it pisses me right off.
2:06:47 PM 
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