Comments on: Savage Authority http://www.james-strocel.com/savage-authority/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Melissa Quinn http://www.james-strocel.com/savage-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-17104 Melissa Quinn Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:05:22 +0000 http://www.james-strocel.com/?p=1156#comment-17104 I have mixed feelings about this one. I don't feel that the news article provided enough information to form more than a nebulous opinion. On the one hand, the principal may have taken things a bit far, for an off school grounds escapade. The girls would have felt the social consequences soon enough anyway; they still will, perhaps for a long time. Who knows? Was the principal being pressured to do something? Probably. Will sueing the school accomplish anything constructive? No. I don't doubt things could have been resolved in mediation between the parents and administration, but once the lawyers get involved, well, the costs escalate. A sorry situation all around, but if I were the girls' parents, there'd be Hell to pay just for being that irredeemably stupid about the internet. I have mixed feelings about this one. I don’t feel that the news article provided enough information to form more than a nebulous opinion. On the one hand, the principal may have taken things a bit far, for an off school grounds escapade. The girls would have felt the social consequences soon enough anyway; they still will, perhaps for a long time. Who knows? Was the principal being pressured to do something? Probably. Will sueing the school accomplish anything constructive? No. I don’t doubt things could have been resolved in mediation between the parents and administration, but once the lawyers get involved, well, the costs escalate.

A sorry situation all around, but if I were the girls’ parents, there’d be Hell to pay just for being that irredeemably stupid about the internet.

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