Pie-in-Face Contest gets Student Expelled :
Anyone even want to guess what the other side of this story is
I see that there is a video, but have no sound card here at work. Perhaps it explains the schools side???
They don’t say exactly but it sounds like this is what happened.
The only rule for the hitting in the face was stand one foot away.
It sounds like the kid smacked the princepal pretty hard. A pie in the face shouldn’t hurt.
But the kid is given an 80 DAY suspension?!?! When the people running the event should have planned this much better?
(sigh)
Saw this on FARK the other day. As expected, there is another side to the story. The student was one of many who hit teachers in the fact with a pie, but he pretty much shoved it in her face, knocking her backwards and injurying her. I can’t find any links at the moment to the more complete version of the story, but I know it’s out there somewhere. Maybe someone else can help.
That being said, 80 days is still outrageous when most students get far less for fighting (and there’s even a kid in my town who got suspended a week for punching a teacher. Go figure). What might be even worse is the one of the stories mentions that the principal might be pressing charges.
In a contest like this there are risks to be expected. No matter how out of line the kid might have been, it sounds like the school is going overboard.
Well, at least there is some sense of why. In just reading the story it seemed motiveless and bizarre. I do think, though, that the punishment was a bit over the top.
There’s a good joke in here somewhere, but I ain’t that sharp right now.
Mmmmm…pie.
I can’t imagine why, in this day and age a school would even think of having a fund raiser like this. So many things could go wrong. Clearly you could get a student who was “over-enthusiastic”, a student who was just plain mean, or a totally innocent accident like someone slipping in the whipped cream and breaking their arm. What at stupid way to raise money!
My guess is this boy was in the over-enthusiastic category and didn’t really intend to hurt the teacher. But geez, and 80 day suspension? That’s three whole months of school, how is that going to solve anything? A more apropriate punishment might be something like making him clean the school or the cafeteria for a month. And of course he should apologize for hurting the principal whether he meant to or not.
Yeah, the whole thing seems pretty hokey to me.
80 days is beyond bizarre.
I dunno - the vibe I’m getting from the story is that perhaps the student and the principal had a history.
Also, I’m trying to concieve of what would have happened to me if I’d launched myself at my highschool principal and smacked him in the face, pie or no pie.
While I agree that this fund raiser seems like a phenominally bad idea, I think the kid was being a jerk. “Toss the pie” is quite a bit different than “Smash pie in face.”
I’m interested to see what happens.
Hmm. It appears that next week they have a “Kick someone in the genitals contest”. The only rule is that they can’t kick hard.
It’s just as ill advised.
The principal basically approved an assault on herself by a minor, and became angry when some arbitrary rules, which have no basis in law, were broken.
Did I really just say “basically”? Dear gawd. I need sleep.
He’s certainly got time for an around-the-world trip, at least. He should bring something to the school when he comes back. But what?
Daniel
A cupcake. It does less damage.
Though “when come back bring cupcake” doesn’t have that grunting panache, does it?
I have seen “pie in the face” contests before.
Generally, there’s a zone you have to stand in, and a barrier to keep you from physically reaching the person at whom you’re hurling a pie.
Pies are whipped topping on paper plates; a hurled aluminum pie pan could, theoretically, injure someone.
There are large administrators and/or security, to keep anyone from leaping the barrier and/or doing anything crazy.
Sounds like the administration’s as much to blame as the student in question. This whole thing seems pretty ill-advised. Sure, the kid should have known better than to smack the principal upside the chops like that, but kids should know better than to smoke a whole lot of dope, drink a bottle of whiskey, and then go out and play mailbox baseball, too, if you know what I mean…
…which is why we pay school administrators, cops and juvie officials, to be responsible adults FOR them. Somebody fumbled the ball, here.