WSUCougar
04-22-2005, 04:54 PM
My brother forwarded this story to me:
Kudos To Snohomish High Principal
April 21, 2005
By Ken Schram
SNOHOMISH, WA - Schools have different ways to teach kids things.
It's too bad that, too often, they miss some of the chances.
Not so up in Snohomish County.
School officials there could have stayed hunkered down and used the weight of their authority to smother the whole "Snohos" T-shirt flap (see my earlier commentary here).
Instead, they backed off.
They decided to take kids at their word that "Snohos" is nothing more than an abbreviation for where they live, and not a slang term for prostitutes.
They decided the one kid who was confronted for wearing the shirt won't be suspended, but will still have to go to detention for mouthing off and swearing when told to cover it up.
And they decided the shirt can be worn at school.
Snohomish High School Principal Diana Plumis should get a lot of credit.
She didn't just give kids the T-shirt back.
She gave them respect.
Teenagers don't always get a whole lot of that.
They get a healthy dose of being blamed, badgered, accused and disregarded, but it's not all that often they get taken seriously.
Up in Snohomish County, kids have learned their word counts for something.
That's an education all in itself.
Kudos To Snohomish High Principal
April 21, 2005
By Ken Schram
SNOHOMISH, WA - Schools have different ways to teach kids things.
It's too bad that, too often, they miss some of the chances.
Not so up in Snohomish County.
School officials there could have stayed hunkered down and used the weight of their authority to smother the whole "Snohos" T-shirt flap (see my earlier commentary here).
Instead, they backed off.
They decided to take kids at their word that "Snohos" is nothing more than an abbreviation for where they live, and not a slang term for prostitutes.
They decided the one kid who was confronted for wearing the shirt won't be suspended, but will still have to go to detention for mouthing off and swearing when told to cover it up.
And they decided the shirt can be worn at school.
Snohomish High School Principal Diana Plumis should get a lot of credit.
She didn't just give kids the T-shirt back.
She gave them respect.
Teenagers don't always get a whole lot of that.
They get a healthy dose of being blamed, badgered, accused and disregarded, but it's not all that often they get taken seriously.
Up in Snohomish County, kids have learned their word counts for something.
That's an education all in itself.