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Danvers HS now referring meeps to the police

theodoramichaels.com

19 pointsblahedo8 comments

Being well over the age of understanding all the new cool words, I hit up urban dictionary to find out what 'meep' meant: "The most versatile word in the English language, or in fact any language." Kind of like a blank Scrabble piece, I guess?

That seems to be the case. Just a stand-in for whatever makes sense given the context, not unlike the var keyword in C#.

No wonder they instituted a ban on it.

"Murray and Strout don't understand human nature. People -- especially teenagers -- don't like following pointless rules."

Au Contraire -- Murray and Strout understand fully, but as employees of the public school system, Murray and Strout are paid to teach their students to follow pointless rules with docility and even joy (or at least the feeling that they are doing the right thing).

(Edit -- I consider it a compliment that I get upvoted and downvoted so often. Teenage rebel gives me a point... humorless school principal takes it away...)

That is true. School is in part supposed to teach you to live with requirements. After all it should be preparing students for the workforce, and in the real world if you are working for an employer they might have similar strange and seemingly unreasonable requirements.

Yet I guess that the hackers and independent entrepreneurs among us can not help but sympathize with a rebellion against the status quo, even if it is over something as trivial as the word "meep". What else would cause a grown adult to send a "meep" email to a school principal?

I just find it funny that the thing has turned into a holy war of sorts.

I think it's quite inappropriate for this person, who should know better, to be posting other people's email addresses in his blog.

It's uncalled for, even if they are on the school's site. This person who should be acting like an adult is being quite childish.

He said that all those email addresses are plainly available on the school website. Therefore reposting them on his own website is of little consequence.

I would have thought Theodora was a female name...

What part of posting a publicly available work email address strikes you as inappropriate?

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