High school suspends kids after banning the word

[andrew8798]

Meep

A Massachusetts school has a warning to students: No more “meep-ing”.
Any student at Danvers High School who uses the word “meep” will be suspended.

“Meep,“ a nonsense word, was first made popular by the Road Runner and increased in popularity thanks Beaker from “The Muppet Show”.
Senior Alex Buzzi takes credit for starting the craze.

“You see someone in the hall and you go ‘Meep’ and they go ‘Meep’ back and nothing, it’s harmless,“ Buzzi said.
Putting First Amendment concerns aside, the principal banned the word, threatening any student who uses it with suspension.

An automated call went out to every parent informing them of the ban.
Students said a freshman biology teacher felt threatened by the word.
“They like to anger him and walk by his class and say it so people get suspended for it now,“ said Brianna Lapointe, a junior.
Many parents are not upset with the ban.

“The real issue here is that they were asked to do something to stop doing what they were doing and they disobeyed,“ said Linda Collinsworth, a parent.
Danvers superintendent Dr. Lisa Dana issued a statement that read in part:

“The principal was exercising his responsibility to maintain order so that an environment conducive to learning could be maintained.“

www2.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/video_high_school_suspends_students_after_banning_the_word_meep/109167/

[Dirty Hazy]

MEEP!

[Viva]

Kids saying meep? What effects this may or may not have on your child and their ability to learn... FOREVER. More at 11.

They're making it a much bigger deal by banning it.

[G✇JI☈A]

Dammit Beaker !

[andrew8798]

Really meep. what harm could this word do

[sam_III]

“The real issue here is that they were asked to do something to stop doing what they were doing and they disobeyed,“ said Linda Collinsworth, a parent.

I cant adequately express how much I hate this attitude. Maybe if your school had of focused on actual teaching rather than the enforcement of asinine rules you would have learnt how to better construct a sentence, Linda.

[Sir Woodrow]

[G✇JI☈A]

MEEP MEEP!

Dammit Road Runner!

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

So this rule was made because a SINGLE TEACHER was complaining about it?

What, does this guy have tenure or something? Around these parts if a single teacher is bitching apart something, they are told to shut the hell up and quit their bitching, it isn't until a group of teachers complain that something is done.

[Dave at the Movies]

I'm pretty sure I saw this on an episode of the cartoon show Recess. lol

"Man this whomps!!!"


Stuff like this are the reasons I have given up on society having any common sense. Seriously, as a whole we are morons.

If a school is more concerned about kids saying meep than they are about how messed up and pathetic the U.S. educational system is then I say screw'em.

[Rorschach]

Sayin' the word "meep".......you better believe THAT'S a paddlin'.

[G✇JI☈A]

Meep Meep!

Dammit Herbie!


OK thats the last one. I swear

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Homer: How'd you get to be so good?
June: Oh, just experience I suppose. I started out as Roadrunner. [as Roadrunner] Meep!
Homer: You mean "meep-meep"?
June: No, they only paid me to say it once, then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. [to herself] Cheap bastards.

[Dave at the Movies]

I vote for the word meep to replace the f*** censor word on here in protest.

Who's with me?

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sam_III]

Nov 16, 2009 4:31:48 GMT -5 devondragon said:

Nov 16, 2009 4:27:09 GMT -5 sam_III said:

“The real issue here is that they were asked to do something to stop doing what they were doing and they disobeyed,“ said Linda Collinsworth, a parent.

I cant adequately express how much I hate this attitude. Maybe if your school had of focused on actual teaching rather than the enforcement of asinine rules you would have learnt how to better construct a sentence, Linda.

Try being a parent, then say the same thing.

As asasine and worthless as that rule is, it's still a rule. And if they told them they would be suspended if they said it, then they deserve it for being stupid enough to do it.

The rule should be dropped, but the students don't need to be breaking them

I have the exact opposite approach. I think people have a duty of sorts to break stupid rules and laws.

I don't want to go into too much detail, because it can get pretty political, but whenever I have this debate with someone I point to Rosa Parks.

[Feargus McReddit]

Nov 16, 2009 4:51:33 GMT -5 Dave at the Movies said:

I'm pretty sure I saw this on an episode of the cartoon show Recess. lol

"Man this whomps!!!"

That was EXACTLY what I thought of when I read it.

And yes, this is insanely stupid.

[Shane Leroy Matthews]

Nov 16, 2009 4:59:47 GMT -5 sam_III said:

Nov 16, 2009 4:31:48 GMT -5 devondragon said:

Try being a parent, then say the same thing.

As asasine and worthless as that rule is, it's still a rule. And if they told them they would be suspended if they said it, then they deserve it for being stupid enough to do it.

The rule should be dropped, but the students don't need to be breaking them

I have the exact opposite approach. I think people have a duty of sorts to break stupid rules and laws.

I don't want to go into too much detail, because it can get pretty political, but whenever I have this debate with someone I point to Rosa Parks.

I agree and I am a parent btw.

We used to have stupid totally worthless rules in our school and we rebelled against them.

I would be something totally different if this was about an offensive word but MEEP? Seriously.

IMO if you teach your kid to obey every rule by your school or any superior no matter how stupid, you teach them to stop critical thinking at an early age and that's dangerous.

I'll stop now.

[Dave at the Movies]

YESSSSS!!!!!! ;D

[Triple Kelly]

Glad to see public schools are dealing with the tough issues and facing them HEAD ON!


Stupid mother-meepers.

[strykerdarksilence]

Nov 16, 2009 4:31:48 GMT -5 devondragon said:

Nov 16, 2009 4:27:09 GMT -5 sam_III said:

“The real issue here is that they were asked to do something to stop doing what they were doing and they disobeyed,“ said Linda Collinsworth, a parent.

I cant adequately express how much I hate this attitude. Maybe if your school had of focused on actual teaching rather than the enforcement of asinine rules you would have learnt how to better construct a sentence, Linda.

Try being a parent, then say the same thing.

As asasine and worthless as that rule is, it's still a rule. And if they told them they would be suspended if they said it, then they deserve it for being stupid enough to do it.

The rule should be dropped, but the students don't need to be breaking them

This.

In reply to other posts relating to this, it's not up to people what rules they pick to obey, no matter how ludicrous it may seem. There are better ways of airing grievance than just breaking them.