60 local kids suspended for riding bicycles to schools

Can students arrive to graduation on bike?
If they want to get really criminal then they will need skateboards.

It's Kenowa Hills for gosh sake. Backwards acting knuckledraggers that if breathing wasn't involuntary for the brain, they would be all dead kind of school.

If I was the principal I'd be angry too. How does a bike parade even qualify as a prank unless they passed through the principal's house in the middle of the night and took random items fron the pantry.

A prank would be putting a small hole in the principal's brake lines, opening their steering wheel, cutting out the airbag and filling it with glazier's points then cutting them off with a U haul truck on the way to graduation so when the airbag went off their face and chest would be peppered with flying metal. Or atleast taking off their lugnuts.

Maybe the rest of the seniors need to show up for graduation with bicycles chained to their arms.

i hope that the principle realizes that she has just inadvertently made sure that every graduating class for the foreseeable future will be riding their bikes to school on the last day.. after about 5 years, no one will remember how or why they started doing it, but it will be a cherished tradition from now on.. hell, maybe they will start riding their bikes thru the hallways on their final walkthru in a few years, and then a few years after that it will just be something that has always happened..

On the one hand I think the administration was rediculous here.

On the other it sounds like they were upfront with the students that senior pranks would not be tolerated. The students organized a admittedly harmless prank but a prank non the less. The administrators simply did what they said.

I never understood senior pranks anyway. Hey you educated me for 4 years here's some toilet paper for your trouble.... When I graduated I thanked my teachers for the education, showed appreciation for what they did and wished them well in the future.

How many lawyers are at that school board meeting? They (the school system) must like spending 1000's of dollars cleaning and repainting locker doors and replacing glued up locks! Neat trick, no one hurt nothing broken. Can't remember what was done in '74 at WHS.

To bad the kids didn't ride canoe to school

bigbens6 wrote: Thats a shame.... i think it is pretty cool that these kids went through the proper channels to be safe, but make a big ordeal by riding their bikes, it had to be hilarious...

+100 Think of the organizational skills they learned setting this up and getting the Mayor and the police to participate. The organizers should get extra credit for their effort, not suspended. The principal should recognize that when she saw the cops and the Mayor involved. And why hasn't the Mayor stuck up for the kids?

uptight lady said: "If you and your parents don't have sense enough to know your brains could end up splattered on Three Mile and Kinney, Fruit Ridge, then maybe that's my responsibility," she is heard telling students on the cellphone video obtained by 24 Hour News 8.

This is the worst part in my opinion. 1) That she, and public schools in general, seems to think parenting and basic life-skills kind of stuff (you know like, sex ed, basic financial skills, common sense, etc.) is the school's responsibility to provide or teach and 2) that there are so many lazy and bad parents out there that have forced the schools to think this way to start with.

"Seniors called police for an escort, and even called Walker's mayor, who road in the parade."

Road in the parade?! Seriously?!

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

N Sperlo wrote: ...more and more less common.

Is that like non-inflammable ?

More or less. Or more and more less. I'm all messed up on cough syrup right now, so just like, nevermind.

yawn,,....bs apology

http://www.wzzm13.com/rss/article/212951/313/Principal-on-bikers-Did-I-overreact-Of-course-I-did?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

super still bitching that it's now the police dept and mayor's "Fault" for not communicating to him and the principle

"Yesterday, I made a mistake and sincerely regret my actions. Did I overreact? In retrospect, of course I did. My first response to learning of our high school seniors riding bikes to school on busy roads was to fear for their safety, and I responded in kind."

That's what I am referring to when I use the term 'safety Nazi'; someone in a position of authority who overreacts without considering the facts and clamps down on a perfectly legitimate activity.

Curmudgeon wrote: *"Yesterday, I made a mistake and sincerely regret my actions. Did I overreact? In retrospect, of course I did. My first response to learning of our high school seniors riding bikes to school on busy roads was to fear for their safety, and I responded in kind."* That's what I am referring to when I use the term 'safety Nazi'; someone in a position of authority who overreacts without considering the facts and clamps down on a perfectly legitimate activity.

What I love is.... these kids all rode in on bicycles, right? They did not make them call their parents to come get them right? So what were they going to do? That's right, ride right back down that busy road.

This wasn't about "safety". This was about Authority and someone had a power trip.

In reply to Bobzilla:

You miss the point. That kind of crap happens all the time, someone in a position of authority doesn't like something and cites 'safety' as a reason to shut it down. As in: 'Oh, won't you think of the children!'

oh yeah....I rode my motorcycle down that road today. its 35mph. Not exactly a high speed road

poopshovel wrote:

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

N Sperlo wrote: ...more and more less common.

Is that like non-inflammable ?

More or less. Or more and more less. I'm all messed up on cough syrup right now, so just like, nevermind.

Six million bonus points for Dead Milkmen!

Curmudgeon wrote: *"Yesterday, I made a mistake and sincerely regret my actions. Did I overreact? In retrospect, of course I did. My first response to learning of our high school seniors riding bikes to school on busy roads was to fear for their safety, and I responded in kind."* That's what I am referring to when I use the term 'safety Nazi'; someone in a position of authority who overreacts without considering the facts and clamps down on a perfectly legitimate activity.

Especially when paired with the POLICE ESCORT! What a Maroon.

the problem with taking a view that they should be recognised as an authority figure is this:

where does the end of your kid's princpal's authority reach?

Their armslength? the school doors? the school curb? the next street over?

seems kinda nebulous at this person's interpretation :/

What the heck am I missing? some kids rode their bikes to school. That's a bad thing?

This whole episode screams "SCOAMF".

Reference: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SCoaMF

Here is a better prank

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/05/29/Sex-tape-spliced-into-graduation-video/UPI-72281338314433/

HELLERUP, Denmark, May 29 (UPI) -- The principal of a Danish high school said he was outraged when a video shown at graduation was interrupted by a video of a student having sex.

Principal Jorgen Rasmussen said the video shown to the 450 people attending the ceremony at Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium was supposed to celebrate the graduating class with pictures from their time at the school, but the video was interrupted by footage of a male student having sex with a woman who does not attend the school, The Copenhagen Post reported Tuesday.

Rasmussen said the school will not seek charges against the student and the woman depicted in the video, but he would like to see charges filed against whoever shot and edited the video, which was apparently taken with a hidden camera.

"We've agreed not to press charges," Rasmussen told Berlingske Nyhedsbureau. "However, we have encouraged the two young people who appear in the video to proceed with the case. It is really them, and not the school, that was violated."

Rasmussen said the school knows the identity of the culprits and they have been punished by the school, but he would not elaborate on their identities or the disciplinary actions

madmallard wrote: the problem with taking a view that they should be recognised as an authority figure is this: where does the end of your kid's princpal's authority reach? Their armslength? the school doors? the school curb? the next street over? seems kinda nebulous at this person's interpretation :/

i know of one guy that got detention for honking his horn at the assistant principal, and another that was threatened with it for passing a school bus (rural area, crappy school busses top out at about 55, 60 if downhill, driving on a 65-70mph road that everyone uses to get to town)

another time a teacher chewed out the same asst principal because he was snooping through teachers cars in the teachers parking lot, supposedly looking for students cars parked there, and with tobacco products (drug free/tobacco free school zone, but a good portion of the teachers smoked)