More HS principal cluelessness
My guess is there aren’t many Mensa members among principals.
From CNN, we get this nice little item in which we learn of principal Kenny Lee of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, Calif., who ordered satirical posters of President Bush taken down (they were advertising a school play) because… they promoted smoking and “endorsing one ideology over another.”
Blink. Blink.
Forget how blatently stupid the idea that a poster of a Groucho Marxish Bush would promote smoking. (Lee’s logic: Showing someone smoking “promotes” it; he obviously doesn’t think much of his students’ intelligence.)
What’s amazing is Lee’s real reason for ordering them removed. They endorsed an ideology.
In other words, according to Kenny Lee, students are not allowed to express a point of view.
Per CNN: “That’s our take on the student speech and conduct,” Lee said.
G. D. Frogsdong says:
You can’t take these stories at first blush. Here’s a link that gives a better account and kind of takes Principal Kenny Lee off the hook, though he might have backed his drama students a little.