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I guess the government schools, also know as the public schools,
have lots of other more important things to do besides teaching the kids stuff.
Of course this article talks about some major criminals, serial farters to be exact, so you may not want young children or sissy adults to read it. Students disciplined after passing gas on bus May. 11, 2011 12:00 PM Associated Press CANAL WINCHESTER, Ohio -- An Ohio man says he's amazed his 13-year-old son and another boy were suspended from the school bus for a day after passing gas and causing a ruckus. James Nichols says the incident Thursday led to giggling and heckling and prompted riders to lower windows. He tells The Columbus Dispatch the boys apparently were considered repeat offenders because a driver had warned them after a similar indiscretion weeks ago. [Now we are talking about major criminals - serial farters!] This time, officials at Canal Winchester Middle School decided it was an obscene gesture that violated the student code of conduct. Nichols says it's "laughable" the boys would be punished for something natural and unintentional. His wife says she's offended by it after recently being hospitalized with gastro-intestinal problems. Officials at the central Ohio school district didn't return the newspaper's calls.
'Cutting the cheese' cuts bus rides for Canal Winchester students Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:46 PM By Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch Education news Two Canal Winchester Middle School students were booted off the school bus last week for, well, passing gas. James Nichols and Kristine Kuzora are upset that their son's flatulence was designated as an obscene gesture by school officials. Their 13-year-old son and another boy were on the school bus Thursday when they both experienced an emission. Children being children, the flatulence apparently caused a ruckus on the bus amid a flurry of laughs, jeers and lowering of windows, Nichols said. Canal Winchester Middle School officials cited the boys for making an obscene gesture in violation of the student code of conduct in revoking their rides to school Friday. The bus driver had warned the boys a few weeks ago after another joint gas attack, so they apparently were designated repeat offenders and handed one-day bus suspensions, Nichols said. Nichols has a sense of humor about the incident but is amazed that his seventh-grader, Anthony, would be kicked off the bus for doing what comes naturally - and accidentally. "It's very laughable, that's what it is," he said yesterday. He said the bus driver reported the boys to the vice principal, Daniel Senu-Oke, with whom he discussed the punishment. "He suggested my son should hold his gas on this hourlong bus ride, if in fact he has gas," said Nichols, whose family lives in Bloom Township in Fairfield County south of Canal Winchester. "When it happens, it just happens," he said. "It's not intentional." Calls to the middle school and superintendent's office seeking comment were not returned yesterday. Anthony's parents also are displeased that school officials made a "real stretch" to find an offense that could be cited to suspend the boys from the bus. "Obscene gesture?" Nichols asked. "I wouldn't call him an angel, but for passing gas on the bus?" Nichols said his wife was more upset, given a recent health problem. "As a sufferer of gastro-intestinal issues who was recently hospitalized for these issues, I take great offense to passing gas being cause for suspension and marked as an obscene gesture," Kuzora wrote to The Dispatch. rludlow@dispatch.com
Gas May Be Stinky But Is It Obscene? By Terreece Clarke, About.com Guide May 11, 2011 Prepare yourself for plenty of puns and innuendo. Two Canal Winchester students were recently kicked off the school bus for repeated bio-violations according to a recent Columbus Dispatch report. The two boys in question were previously warned about their joint gas attacks on the bus before committing a second offense that the school deemed 'obscene.' A one-day suspension and uproar followed the school's decision. I can barely type this with a straight face. I'll try to keep it in...the laugh I mean. Is passing gas, whether a coordinated release or accidental eruption, an obscene act? Sure it can be annoying to drive a bus with kids letting off stink bombs, but isn't it expected? Throw a bunch of middle schoolers together and eventually someone cuts the cheese. The parents of one child suggest it wasn't intentional. I beg to differ, but in-school suspension is probably going too far. Then again, maybe they had the beans for lunch. A school's interpretation of festive mexican dishes can release a plume that could peel paint. *Sigh* Somewhere my journalism 101 T.A. is weeping. |