School Daze IV

School Daze IV

Schools may be out for the summer but there’s always some school news to report, both good and bad.

Teacher Twit: Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts staged its annual graduation ceremony last month.

Such events are always times of celebration and high spirits as schools send their graduates out into the world to colleges, to workplaces, or to the military.

With the nation involved in two long, ugly wars, those graduates headed for the military are to be specially commended for their bravery, sense of duty, and patriotism and Dennis-Yarmouth happened to be sending six of its graduates into the armed services.

The six volunteers were given a standing “O” replete with whistles and cheers by the audience who were appreciative of their choices, with one exception.

Teacher Marybeth Verani wanted to make a statement and not only didn’t rise to her feet to applaud the enlistees. She sat in silence and displayed a sign reading, “End War” as her effort, she said, to teach the grads “how to dissent:” http://tiny.cc/84hwu

Ms. Verani may or may not have succeeded in teaching that lesson but certainly succeeded in demonstrating how to be an ass and how to grossly misuse a graduation venue to stage her pitiful protest.

Parent Jail: Detroit, as most people know, is a mess in every conceivable way and its school system leads the way. . .
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