Class of 2010 prank = suspension

romanigypsyeyes
Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:20:39 +0000

This is stupid. Yes, the kids should probably pay for the retouching, but suspensions? Come on!

Besides, aren’t there supposed to be people monitoring the kids during the pictures? I’m just going to assume that the kids are the scapegoats because the administrators missed this and it’s going to make them look bad.

Americans are so uptight about things like this. It’s just a word. And it means donkey. Perhaps one of them recently acquired a pet donkey and was celebrating his “Donkey” of 2010 :).

ETA: Interesting opinion piece on this whole thing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34981793/ns/us_news-weird_news/?ocid=MSNToolbar130 One of the commenters had a good point- the word ass (donkey) appears many, many times in the Bible so are they banning those as well?

It is when adults make a huge deal about a word that the kids chose to exploit it. I got $10 that says these kids are now heroes to a few hundred students who would never have known their names or probably noticed the picture anyway.