{"id":42242,"date":"2014-03-06T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42242"},"modified":"2014-03-06T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:12:39","slug":"lets-try-a-thought-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42242","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Try A “Thought” Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Find one of your children.<\/p>\n

Wait for when it’s\u00a0super\u00a0cold out – like, below zero.<\/p>\n

Soak them with a super-soaker. \u00a0Then force them outside, and don’t let them back in the house, or any cars, or into the neighbors’ houses.<\/p>\n

When (hopefully) someone calls the cops, you’ll be thrown into jail for child endangerment. \u00a0And you should be.<\/p>\n

Because “idiot” wouldn’t describe it – but “evil” pretty much would.<\/p>\n

Most of you have no doubt seen this story<\/a>; a Saint Paul middle school forced a junior high kid to wait outside, in a swimsuit and towel, in -2 weather and -25 wind chill. \u00a0 There’d been a fire drill while she was in the pool, and the teachers didn’t let her go to her locker, grab a coat, or anything but a towel (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

[The girl] asked to wait inside an employee\u2019s car, or at the elementary school across the street. But administrators believed that this would violate official policy<\/strong>, and could get the school in trouble<\/strong>, so they opted to simply let the girl freeze.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s try to go through the “minds” of these hamsters: \u00a0Given a choice to “violate policy” and “endanger a child’s health and safety”, the kid got chucked under a bus.<\/p>\n

What does it say that a bunch of junior high kids are smarter, and have more moral clarity, than their administrators?<\/p>\n

Her fellow classmates, at least, huddled around her to try to keep her warm. And one teacher did eventually lend her a coat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There should be arrests. \u00a0Idiot school administrators should be frog-walked out of their building in handcuffs. \u00a0 Their mug shots should be splashed all over the TV, so parents can keep their children away. \u00a0 Licenses should be slowly torn into long, thin strips.<\/p>\n

But that’ll never happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Find one of your children. Wait for when it’s\u00a0super\u00a0cold out – like, below zero. Soak them with a super-soaker. \u00a0Then force them outside, and don’t let them back in the house, or any cars, or into the neighbors’ houses. When (hopefully) someone calls the cops, you’ll be thrown into jail for child endangerment. \u00a0And you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42243,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242\/revisions\/42243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}