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On 5/9/24 7:40 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 5/9/2024 12:35 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> 
>>> In San Diego, the school district superintendant was upset because
>>> certain students didn't clap loudly enough to satisfy her when her
>>> daughter received an award. I believe this was May 2023. She identified
>>> certain students who hadn't clapped loudly enough then threatened them
>>> with punishment like being unable to attend their own graduation
>>> ceremonies.
> 
>>> The kids aren't morons. It's possible they thought the award was
>>> specious or that the award was given with undue influence. You kind of
>>> have to feel sorry for the daughter and the kind of unwanted attention
>>> she received from her fellow classmates and even teachers, just for
>>> being the daughter of the superintendant and that her mother was
>>> interfering inappropriately in her life.
> 
>>> I'm sure I learned at some point -- possibly in school -- that America
>>> had fought the Revolutionary War for the express purpose of not being
>>> required to show fealty as we no longer recognized the King of England
>>> as our ruler and wanted to have a republic. No school superintendant is
>>> allowed to fill in the fealty gap and require that it be shown to her.
> 
>>> The board of education finally addressed the issue in November 2023, had
>>> a report prepared (likely at great expense), then fired the
>>> superintendant in April 2024.
> 
>>> Steve Lehto video
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0_jLbfdOak
> 
>> And I just read a report about Russian students being punished for not
>> "volunteering" to work in defense industry factories....
> 
> Slave labor?

Sounds like a Fear Factory song!!