Fourteen students were expelled after the lunchtime melee.

Principal Terry, there are lawyers on lines one thru 14 wanting to speak with you.

Isn't prom itself a form of punishment?

Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief.

The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female party guests.

We did.

But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals.

If you do, shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system?

And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?

I put it to you, Greg.

Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Well, you can do what you want to us, but we won't sit here... and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!

Gentlemen!

gettin it out of the way

How will those 14 students ever get laid then?

/Waiting for them to hold their own prom, sponsored by their parents with booze.

Expelled? Did someone bring a gun to a food fight?

lajimi: Fourteen students were expelled after the lunchtime melee.

Principal Terry, there are lawyers on lines one thru 14 wanting to speak with you.

You are right. Inciting a riot in no grounds for expulsion.

Students: FOOD FIGHT!!!1
School: WTF!? Prom is cancelled!
Students: WTF!?!?! You can't do that!
School: Okay fine. We're expelling the people responsible.

So we've taken the overbearing-ness and instead of spreading it out among the whole student body, they target it on 14 people.

Expelled. For a farking food fight.

What an uptight bunch of shiatfarkers.

Preston Preston: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief.

The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female party guests.

We did.

But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals.

If you do, shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system?

And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?

I put it to you, Greg.

Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Well, you can do what you want to us, but we won't sit here... and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!

Gentlemen!

First lulz of the morning right there. Awesome.

"Behold the power of Fark"

Did I miss something? I don't think Fark was mentioned.

WRONG:

Collective punishment is the only thing that works. It's the only thing that clears out the "few insurgents" or crystallizes a resistance into a revolution. This dilly-dallying about is ultimately counterproductive nonsense. the notion that you can have a 'normal' life in a warzone is utter crap.

SeamusFerrell: riot

Preston-Brilliant.

Principal Terry should have done what one of the posters said in the comments...they should have to work at a food bank for 100 hours. Done.

FarkProudly: Preston-Brilliant.

Principal Terry should have done what one of the posters said in the comments...they should have to work at a food bank for 100 hours. Done.

Or just have the students help clean and GET OVER IT. Dear lord, is this principal retarded? Expelled? It was a farking food fight.

tonesskin: FarkProudly: Preston-Brilliant.

Principal Terry should have done what one of the posters said in the comments...they should have to work at a food bank for 100 hours. Done.

Or just have the students help clean and GET OVER IT. Dear lord, is this principal retarded? Expelled? It was a farking food fight.

I fully support his decision to expel these students. Disruptive behavior in the lunch room will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Children need a great deal of behavioral modification to prevent things like this from happening. They should have made an example of these kids with a firing squad.

betona: We had a huge food fight at the end of my freshman year in college, not too long after Animal House came out (good lead-in, Preston). Everybody knew about it and went through the cafeteria lines quietly loading up on extra mashed potatoes and other ammunition.

And we sat down to dinner.

All of a sudden it hit. I remember a loud rumble as a thousand chairs suddenly scooted out with people jumping up to throw. The air above me was completely filled with food flying every where.

I unloaded everything I had and made a beeline for the nearest door. While I got away, they locked the doors and made everyone inside clean up the mess. And that was the end of that.

If it were to have happened nowadays, they'd probably arrest everyone under homeland security domestic terrorism charges and expel them from college. Because yesterday's hippies are today's overzealous administrators.

Oh and,

If it were to have happened nowadays, the families of the students locked in would have sued the school for false imprisonment.

Preston Preston: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief.

The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female party guests.

We did.

But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals.

If you do, shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system?

And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?

I put it to you, Greg.

Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Well, you can do what you want to us, but we won't sit here... and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!

Gentlemen!

Politicians have been using this approach for years now....

tonesskin: FarkProudly: Preston-Brilliant.

Principal Terry should have done what one of the posters said in the comments...they should have to work at a food bank for 100 hours. Done.

Or just have the students help clean and GET OVER IT. Dear lord, is this principal retarded? Expelled? It was a farking food fight.

They were expelled but are allowed to be re-admitted with a meeting with the principle and their parents.

/In the previous article.

The kids are lucky no one got hurt or their mommies didn't sue the school, the kids, and the parents for letting this happen. I still think they should've cancelled prom, but hey, I'm a firm disciplinarian.

i'll bet money the principle is ex-military. that's how the army handles EVERYFARKINGTHING: mass punishment. if anybody reading this finds the actions of this idiot to be logical and fair, go enlist, we need more mindless dogs as cannon-fodder for the upcoming clusterfark in Afghanistan.

SeamusFerrell: lajimi: Fourteen students were expelled after the lunchtime melee.

Principal Terry, there are lawyers on lines one thru 14 wanting to speak with you.

You are right. Inciting a riot in no grounds for expulsion.

ri⋅ot:
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.


food fight:
a form of chaotic collective behavior, in which food is thrown at others in the manner of projectiles.

Yeah, what's up with this 'Behold the power of Fark' jazz? Can we hold off on the self-fellatio until it's actually warranted?

What would be nice is if the follow-up tag actually contained a clickable link to the article that was being followed up. That way those of us that don't get to read fark every day could easily find the referenced article. :)

darthgarlic: "Behold the power of Fark"

Did I miss something? I don't think Fark was mentioned.

It doesn't mention any reason why they changed the punishment.

The very thought that the comments section of Fark could actually change policy...

/shudders

izen: i'll bet money the principle is ex-military.

SeamusFerrell: Inciting a riot in no grounds for expulsion.

Don't forget domestic terrorism, attempted murder, possession of a deadly weapon, grand larceny, indecent exposure, indecent proposal, beastiality, child abuse, fraud, snakes on a plane, espionage, jay walking, and wearing white after labor day.

/Hyperbole is fun

Behold the power of Fark

I have a few coworkers that need taking care of, what can Fark do for me?

Cheron: Behold the power of Fark

I have a few coworkers that need taking care of, what can Fark do for me?

it can get you unemployed, thereby solving your coworker problem.

so what exactly does 'expelled' mean? They're thrown out of school for the rest of the year? A week? 3 days?

If I have to start all over again:

Translation: the school couldn't get its deposit on the function room back from Anthony's out on route 11.

I guess the student body didn't go Code Red on the participants in the food fight?

Actually, punishing everyone for the actions of a few is an acceptable form of punishment. The idea is to get everyone else so pissed off at the troublemakers they take it upon themselves to police their own instead of just standing there giggling whenever some coont gets all... coonty.

Or they just go all Full Metal Jacket on them with a bar of soap in a pillowcase. Either way, they straighten right the fark up.

/or kill a school official then shoot themselves
//either way, it's a good thing

darthgarlic: "Behold the power of Fark"

Did I miss something? I don't think Fark was mentioned.

I submitted the original story the evening I heard it on the news, and it wasn't greenlit. I didn't see anyone else submit it, or see the story greenlit - did I miss something?

/Maybe subby is a TF'er and saw the non-greenlit story?

betona Because yesterday's hippies are today's overzealous administrators.

No, yesterday's hippies are getting minimum wages trying to be good teachers while the uptight right-wing blowhard who nobody liked as a kid now enforces asinine rules with a iron first as the school administrator that nobody likes.

/FTFY

Behold the power of Fark

Yeah, FARK had everything to do with this. LOL

yesterday's hippies are getting minimum wages trying to be good teachers

Minimum wage is $26.92/hr where you live? Where the hell is that?

The lowest paid teachers that I know of pull down $42K. That's $20.19/hr for a full year, but actually $26.92/hr for teachers since they only work 9 months of the year.

I submitted this with a Much shorter headline.

foodfight != riot.

Lots of fighting and guns and fire makes a riot. A foodfight equals a longass day for the janitor(s).

Fark taking for credit it had nothing to do with? I'm shocked.

warlok42: darthgarlic: "Behold the power of Fark"

Did I miss something? I don't think Fark was mentioned.

I submitted the original story the evening I heard it on the news, and it wasn't greenlit. I didn't see anyone else submit it, or see the story greenlit - did I miss something?

/Maybe subby is a TF'er and saw the non-greenlit story?

Someone else got greenlit. Sorry.

But that doesn't mean Fark had anything to do with it. Anyone who has been around parents whose kids have been wronged (real or imagined) knows that there isn't a more annoying force on the planet.

Fark had nothing to do with prom not being canceled. Oh, and welcome to Thursday.

It's amazing what a pirncipal will do after he opens his e-mail box and finds obcenity-laden comments from all over the country.

It seems that being an asshat is a job requirement for public school administrator. Given how these assholes operate, I don't think every home schooler is a right wing Bible thumping whack job.

FTFA: expelled

RocketFood: Minimum wage is $26.92/hr where you live? Where the hell is that?

The lowest paid teachers that I know of pull down $42K. That's $20.19/hr for a full year, but actually $26.92/hr for teachers since they only work 9 months of the year.

Teachers only work 9 months of the year where you live? What country are you in? That's sweet! They should do the same in the U.S.!

John Buck 41: so what exactly does 'expelled' mean? They're thrown out of school for the rest of the year? A week? 3 days?

When I was in school, it meant being thrown the fark out, for good, and it was a pain in your ass to try to find another school to go to.

Of course, nowadays, it very well could be a temporary thing. Anyone else know?

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4390673 (new window)

/for those that missed the original story.

solid_snale: Of course, nowadays, it very well could be a temporary thing. Anyone else know?

Expelled means kicked out. Expulsion can be from an individual school or an entire school system. And since the laws in most jurisdictions require kids to attend school until a certain age, this can mean a serious burden to the little sh*t's -- uh, snowflake's -- family. If they can't afford to send him to a private school, they are usually forced to move into another jurisdiction where he can attend public school.