I Be an IB Student me hearties

Arrrr...! The particular school I’m referring to in this case is Readington Middle School. A group of 8th graders decided that they weren’t satisfied with their 30 minute lunch break me beauties, and so decided to protest by paying for their lunches using only pennies. A logical person would say that this was a harmless act of civil disobedience me beauties, much like Rosa Parks’ decision to refuse to give up her seat on the bus. However me beauties, the geniuses at this school decided that the students were “slowing down the cafeteria line” and “not giving the lunch aides the respect they deserve,” and so decided to give each of the 200 students in line that day a 1 hour detention after school.I was tempted to think that the principle was probably just having a bad day me beauties, until I read this quote that made me certain that this guy is a raving LUNATIC:  arrrr...

“Most reasonable people understand that the school needed to respond to this.”             ye scurvy dogs.

Ye landlubbers!  Yes blow me down, the school needed to respond! They needed to give these kids an extra five minutes for lunch! Rather than going the stupid route of giving them all detentions. This crackpot went on to say that the school officials would work to  shiver me timbers

 ”…harness the organizational power and desire of the students and channel it towards something that could impact the greater good.”            yarr.

Me hearties!  If the school really wanted to teach them that they could use their abilities for the “greater good,” maybe they should have given them some extra time for lunch. That way the kids could see the potential for protests to work. Oh heave to, and on top of all this heave to, it wasn’t like the kids were trying to pay for a $10 meal using pennies. No heave to, they were trying to pay for $2 worth of food (for those of you who are mathematically challenged heave to, that’s 200 pennies). While that may seem like a lot heave to, it’s still nothing compared with the “damage” they could have done.Finally heave to, I’d like to point out that the school pretty much killed any right to peacefully protest that the kids had heave to, glad to see the Constitution is still holding strong…                                                                             http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/students_get_detentions_for_pa.html