Top news today comes from my own little corner of the world. Last night during Lost the local news ran one of it's many commercial spots for the ten o'clock news. We've all seen the promos for the news, and if any of you out there are like me then you read enough news during the day to make you detest the local news at night. Close minded you might think, but I look at it as the only thing standing between myself and a twelve gauge on most days. Let's face it if I had to hear about all the bull carried out in my immediate location there would be far more acts of vigilante justice then the government would be able to smile on. Anyway, a promo pops up and the lead story...peanuts are being banned from one local school due to six kids having an allergy. Six, and this is not a small school. So now there are signs posted all over the school proclaiming the school to be nut free! Large posters of peanuts with slashes through them, and parents talking about how much better they feel knowing their children are now safe from peanuts. I love the ridiculousness of this, I really hope you all know how much I love this. The Sig and I laughed ourselves silly.
Peanut banning aside, I read a horrible news piece this morning about a school that covered up the molestation of a six year old resulting in four other six year olds being molested. Horrible as the story itself is, the school is fighting allegations that protecting the children was their responsibility. I can not even begin to express to you how disgusting I find these people.
Where is that fine line? The one between ridiculousness and criminal? I always thought the line was painted in bright red and five miles wide but the more I hear and read these days about the happenings of our world I am seriously beginning to question if the line has faded or if all the people in positions of educational power have lost their ever loving senses!
Rest assured your child will not be exposed to peanut butter, but they might get fondled in a bathroom. How's that for higher education?
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