Nice Hat
Yep, here we go again. The principal of Northampton High School is in a pile of horse manure. Can I say that, or will Mr. Ed be offended? In an administrative email that was recently leaked, the principal called a coupla members of the Student Union “asshats.” Oh man, all hell broke loose. Almost the entire student body left class the other day to protest outside the school. They were wearing name tags that said, “Asshat.” Parents held signs that read, “Parent of an asshat”.
Who the hell, in a moment of off-the-cuff frustration, hasn’t said something like that or worse? The principal apologized, but students and parents want her to resign. Are these students a little too sensitive or what? I’ve always called them the glass jaw generation. Why don’t they just laugh it off? You know, when you think about all the troubles in the world today, do we need to put up with this malarkey?
Good goddamn Christ, it’s a good thing they didn’t go to Catholic school in the old days. The nuns were constantly swearing and hurling personal attacks at us. “You’ve got a mind like a sieve.” “You’re a waste of space.” “You’re going nowhere.” One poor kid who went to school with my son Joe wore a red Bud Man sweatshirt to school one day. Sister Louise Thomas grabbed him by the hood and told him he was gonna grow up to be a drunken bum.
If the nuns’ constant predictions were correct, almost every kid in my class, including me, would be hanging off the back of a garbage truck today. That was always the big threat, that we’d end up hauling barrels. One day, a kid who was told one time too many that he was going to grow up to be a garbage man couldn’t take it anymore. He yelled back at the nun, “You’ve got a body like a garbage truck!” Whoa Jackson! That poor bastard took a left hook to the jaw and got put on a bus to juvie hall. I never saw the hero again.
Hey, lighten up and keep your dukes up.
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