Earlier this week, there was a big food fight at Kaiser High School! The principal reacted by not allowing the students to eat in the cafeteria for the rest of the week.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/115658864.html
And looking at the online comments, you can sense many have this attitude of "this is just harmless fun"
Harmless fun? When innocent bystanders get hit by food? When kids throw food as a subtle way of intimidation of vulnerable students? When someone could slip & fall because of wasted food on the ground? When this incident could easily turn into a real fight? When taxpayers pay all that money for the purpose of "keeping kids from starving", just to see all that food wasted by a bunch of ingrates?
Even more stupid is those comments that goes along the lines of "you were a kid once, you enjoyed it, why you picking on us kids now for having that fun?"
Parents and teachers are supposed to teach what's right & wrong! While they may not have perfect behavior in the past, they realize that their past mistakes are wrong! They realize that the main part of their job is to prevent their kids from making the same mistakes they used to make!
They don't want their kids to make the same mistakes because they don't want their kids to grow up having to regret the harm they did!
And most importantly, they want the kids to became well-behaved, productive citizens. You CANT do that by making excuses like "I used to do that, so I'll let you get away with it"
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Some of the online commenters even had the nerve to suggest the school was being a dictatorship for taking a food fight seriously.
Those kids have no idea of what a dictatorship really is!
The true rebels against dictatorships are protesters in Egypt and Tunisia who were brave enough to risk getting attacked by riot police to express their anger at the dictators who ruined their country!
True dictatorships are countries like Iran, China, North Korea, Belarus, Cuba and Zimbabwe where peaceful protesters get attacked by riot police and get brutally tortured in prisons.
Those kids taking part in the food fight are spoiled brats who are clueless about what real hardships are! They are ungrateful for all the subsidized (ie taxpayer funded) food they are allowed to have in the first place.
They won't get a brutal beatdown by authorities! They'll probably just get detention and suspension!
People in most foreign countries are not that fortunate!
