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Good grief.

I don't get it. "Meep" is certainly better to say around school than "F**K". I mean, sheesh.....

If they had put it in a positive spin, and just shut the meep up, then the students wouldn't be facing suspension over being clever in coming up with a way to perhaps swear less.

Stupid meeping school systems. ;)



Just my 2¢

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--Greg
 
Come on. The Roadrunner was meeping Wile E. Coyote back in the 50's.

All the princial has accomplished here is to gain negative publicity. And his visceral reaction to "meep" will result in more, not fewer, discipline problems.

And the students are calling him a meeping idiot behind his back. Had he just laughed it off, the whole thing would have lost its appeal.

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I'm guessing that this is what happened:
"Students had fun by saying 'Meep' repeatedly in a variety of voices with different loudness, which disrupted the class. Instead of punishing the students for misbehaving, he punished them for saying 'Meep'."

The whole article reeks of bully behavior, too. The principal did not handle that one correctly.
"This is my territory and you will do as I please because I said so" ...
That does no fly with anyone ... Especially teenagers.

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You know, I remember in high school.....

We had an assembly, and the principal was giving a "Just do it" speech. The "Just Do It" came from (I think) Nike?

Anyway... it was all bullying. He said "We're adopting a 'Just Do It' policy." Now, he could have gone on to make it positive; something like "When you get home in the evening and you have homework to do, just do it and get it done before other stuff" or whatever. That would have been fine.

Instead, it was "So, if you're walking down the hall, and the teacher tells you to pick up a piece of garbage, just do it. If the teacher tells you this or that, just do it."

What a load.

Needless to say, we just didn't. ;)



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
Principal Murray, I believe, does not follow the concept of "Teach people correct principles, and they govern themselves."

The best way to guarantee adolescent misbehavior is to ban the behavior. If the staff at Danvers High School ignored the word "Meep" and, instead (on a case-by-case basis) disciplined students simply for disrupting class (regardless of words used), then the problem would soon take care of itself (IMHO, of course).

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I know what happened here. Two students were busted by a teacher for disrupting the class, probably specifically for using profanity, and the students decided to get even by further disrupting the teacher's classes. But in order to keep from being busted again, they decide to use a "death of a thousand cuts" technique by recruiting fellow students into their little cabal: each student needles the teacher a little by saying "Meep!" as he goes past the teacher's classroom door. The teacher gets a day of irritation, and no single student can be blamed (or punished) for the disruption. And by picking "meep!", no one has used profanity.

By banning the specific word they intended to use, the principal sent a message to the leaders of the cabal, telling them that he knew exactly who they were and exactly what they were up to. It sounds weird reading about it in the paper, but I'll bet this principal has a reputation for being pretty well tuned in to his student body.


When I was in the Army, a conspirator and I used to do something similar to officers. We'd like up 25 or 30 fellow enlisted soldiers and wait until the target was walking toward us along a sidewalk. Then we would time all the soldiers so that they were walking toward the officer about 10 feet apart. Each enlisted soldier would only have to salute the office once -- but that officer would have to return salutes 25 or 30 times. It doesn't hurt anybody but it will irritate the officer after about the 5th salute he has to return. Sometimes, the officer wouldn't even know why he was irritated -- just that he was.


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I think if the principal said "Meep!" a few times during morning announcements instead of banning it, making a joke of it, he would get the result he wanted.

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^^^ lol "...And in the cafeteria today, meeping sloppy joes again."

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Ok, this is just driving me meeping crazy! All this talk about meeping this and meeping that...here's some of the real thing. Enjoy!

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acl03 said:
I think if the principal said "Meep!" a few times during morning announcements instead of banning it, making a joke of it, he would get the result he wanted.
I couldn't agree more. Reminds me of the Super Trooper movie and the 'meow' scene. Still makes me laugh.

Paul
 
Nothing really matters...but moi!" [rofl]



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
You know what struck the geek in me? They sent an "Automated Call"

What ever happend to a good old fashioned letter as opposed to automated diallers?
Hope there is a "Telemoaning" opt out in the T&C's!

Sign of the times I guess. :-(

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We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 
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