# Student in a pack of trouble for photographing principal smoking **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 23, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883 "2005-03-23T14:57:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/21 "2005-03-23T20:36:06Z")
Only in Rhode Island. :rolleyes: I’m sure **Caricci** knows what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/22 "2005-03-23T20:53:03Z")
I’m pretty appalled at the school’s and the principal’s actions. So much, in fact, that I sent an email to the principal and the school board explaining my feelings on the matter. I personally did not send hate mail of any kind, but did explain that I felt it was a gross misuse of power and reprehensible behavior and that I hoped the principal would learn to respect the power her position gives her. I’m not sure it’s kosher to post those email addresses here (I’m pretty sure it’s not) but they are easily found on the school system and school website: Office: www DOT providenceschools DOT org/dept/office/index.html Board: www DOT providenceschools DOT org/dept/board/contact.html School: www DOT providenceschools DOT org/hs/central/ I will not hotlink these for reasons of discretion and board involvement. The school is Central High, and the email addresses are public record, right there on the site. I personally did not send hate mail of any kind, but did explain that I felt it was a gross misuse of power and reprehensible behavior. Note to mods: This is all publicly available information I got from Google with one search. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/23 "2005-03-23T21:46:20Z")
This has some evil parallels to the youngster who put up a video of a teacher going batshit on kids who failed to stand for the National Anthem. That kid was suspended and new rules were enacted forbidding one from having any form of video camera in school.:rolleyes: I’m all for affording respect to the anthem of _any_ country by shutting my pie hole and standing for a few moments, but between ZT and other examples of over-the-top insanity in school systems, I fear for the next generation. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/24 "2005-03-23T22:47:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Er, the principal’s a “she.” Well, I wasn’t paying attention except to the last names when I wrote it. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/25 "2005-03-23T23:21:35Z")
I hope this kid becomes a journalist. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/26 "2005-03-23T23:47:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Principals are not uncommonly little dictators. This one got embarassed and turned to harassment, for which a brief suspension should be considered.\* > > If the student was passing out flyers advertising the website in school, he was being somewhat of an ass and could legitimately have been told to cut it out, and that should have ended it. > The only thing nuttier than school administrator behavior is school board behavior. > > \*or alternately, having students serenade the principal with "Smokin’ In The Boys’ Room’ featuring alternate lyrics. Or she should be required to listen to Sammy Davis, Jr.'s rendition of “Smoke That Cigarette” 1,000 times. And it ani’t slander if it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/27 "2005-03-23T23:56:49Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > I hope this kid becomes a journalist. I hope so, too, although I do hope that he also figures out that everyone who decides to act like an asshole around him isn’t necessarily acting that way because they dislike hispanics. In short, sometimes an asshole is just an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/28 "2005-03-24T00:09:05Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > Only in Rhode Island. :rolleyes: I’m sure **Caricci** knows what I mean. It’s true. And only in Rhode Island will you have the involvement of a state representative in pretty much everything you do except scratching your ass. It shocks me not at all that the deputy principal is a state representative who doesn’t know the difference between there, their and they’re. I love it here anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/29 "2005-03-24T00:11:30Z")
Here’s the latest: [http://www.turnto10.com/education/4311906/detail.html](http://www.turnto10.com/education/4311906/detail.html) ---
**Author:** ![Phatlewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Phatlewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phatlewt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/30 "2005-03-24T14:14:37Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > I think so. > > “It’s my opinion that **Phatlewt** is a baby raping, dog killing, communist.” > > But IANAL, so I could be wrong. Hey! That’s not true! Slander!!! Although two out of three ain’t bad. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883/31 "2005-03-24T14:46:13Z")
> [@Phatlewt](#): > > Hey! That’s not true! Slander!!! Although two out of three ain’t bad. 😛 And that’s plagiarism. I’m contacting Meat Loaf right now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/student-in-a-pack-of-trouble-for-photographing-principal-smoking/295883.md?page=1)