Prank or proud moment? For the 64 high school seniors in Walker, Mich., who marked their last day of classes by riding bikes — with a police escort and the mayor in tow — it was all about school pride and staging a “prank” with no damage. But to Kenowa Hills High Principal Katie Pennington — who had no idea what was coming — it was a prank that could have hurt someone and tied up traffic. …
After the incident Tuesday morning, Pennington ushered the seniors into an auditorium, where part of her tirade was recorded on a cellphone video. In it she refers to the busy streets nearby …
“If you and your parents don’t have sense enough to know your brains could end up splattered on Three Mile and Kinney, Fruit Ridge, then maybe that’s my responsibility,” WOOD-TV reported her as saying.
It helps to know that the school looks like this:
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The road the students took looked like this:
And they had a police escort.
Good news, though: “The one-day suspension will not count against students, and those who missed final exams will be able to make them up.”
Thanks to Dianna Waggoner.
No surprise here. I get a weekly summary of news reports like this from Randy Cassingham, who publishes “This Is True”. He has had a campaign on this kind of brain dead “zero tolerance” policy in education establishments in the US for some years now.