Schools these days aren’t the same as when I was roaming the halls. They’re less smartass-friendly, more totalitarian and full of administrators and teachers that are terrified of their students. Long gone are the days of bullies shoving dweebs into lockers in the hallways in-between classes. Long gone are spitballs, tacks on chairs, smear the queer, dodgeball, any game where someone might lose or might make someone feel bad. Because of this, it’s getting harder and harder for students to get a decent education and the kids who graduate are completely unprepared for the real world waiting beyond the diploma. Don’t believe me?
Florida Student Suspended From Bus for Passing Gas
Look, I got the holy hell beaten out of me on a regular basis on the bus until I was old enough and big enough to fight back. I had friends that smoked pot and blew it into a hole that they cut into the back of the seat in front of them on the bus. I had other friends who made a game out of catching others unaware and smacking their heads into the bus windows- hard. The schoolbus was not a place for the faint of heart.
Case in point; my schoolbus driver got throat cancer when I was in elementary school, only missed about a week of driving and came back with one of those voice boxes. He used it to scare the bejesus out of everyone, especially the elementary school kids. Oh yeah, and he still smoked. On the bus. While driving children around. In the winter with the windows shut. I shit you not.
So, the fact that a kid of suspended from the bus for farting is just laughable. I remember only one kid ever getting suspended from the bus when I was in school, and that was for making another kid bleed. No harm, no foul, was the unspoken motto of our schoolbus.
There were rules on that bus, and if you followed them, you had no problems. Older kids sit in the back, they don’t share seats. Younger kids up front and they have to share their seats. Don’t look at the older kids in the eye, or you’ll get beaten up. Don’t mouth off to the older kids or the busdriver, or you’ll get beaten up/ragged out in front of the entire bus by a guy with a voicebox. If you farted on the bus and it was particularly rank, you got high-fives, especially if you made the kindergarteners all the way up front cover their noses in disgust. It was a point of pride.
On a more serious note, stupid stuff like suspending a kid for farting on the bus retards the kids’ understanding of the real world. It really does. When you introduce stupid rules and punishments that have no basis in reality, you screw up a childs’ understanding of how the world works. Kids are works-in-progress. They need to know that, sometimes, life is unfair. But, you’re never going to get fired from your job for farting at your desk. You’re never going to get kicked out of a cab for ripping one.
The same goes for banning stuff like dodgeball in elementary schools because some kids get picked on or get hit in the face. That’s life. Life means you get shit on and hit in the face for no reason. Kids are being taught that they will never lose, that they will get a trophy even though they suck, all because some dipshit parents don’t want their kids’ feelings hurt. On the same hand, this kid is getting suspended from the bus for ripping a wicked fart because it offended someone’s senses. Because it was a “disturbance.”
Bulllshit. Throwing tennis balls at the back of the busdriver’s head while they’re trying to drive is a disturbance. Beating the holy hell out of another student in full view of the driver is a disturbance. Farting, when you’re in school, is funny in proportion to the degree of it’s stench.
If you fart on the bus and it’s so bad that the busdriver finds it difficult to breathe? That’s just curled-up-in-a-ball-crying-because-you’re-laughing-so-hard funny.
