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Date Posted: 16:58:13 05/18/08 Sun
Author: Denton
Subject: Community college misunderstanding

While this happened to a young woman I knew in college, this didn’t happen at the college itself. So maybe this doesn’t count as a on topic story for this board.
I attended a community college in Houston Texas in the early 80’s. I had a friend, Lisa, from Wisconsin who was majoring in education. She wanted to take two years at the community college then transfer to the University of Houston. She hadn’t been paddled in school in Wisconsin, it may not have even been allowed up there, and was surprised how prevalent it was in the South. But she had an experience when she was visiting a high school for a class that almost got her paddled.
She was part of several students who were to join up with a teacher in a public school and monitor the class and meet with the teacher as a sort of “field” work environment. On her first day was a total disaster and misunderstanding. It started when she left the class to use the bathroom. When she headed back to the classroom she got “caught” by a busy-body hall monitor that asked what she was doing out of class and if she had a hall pass. Lisa looked at her blankly and said she didn’t need one. Of course the hall monitor informed her that she did in fact need one and also informed her that her skirt was to short and out of the school dress code. Lisa “backtalked” the hall monitor and was told that she had to go see the vice principal’s office. Lisa just thought that she would be led to the vice principal’s office where she signed in as a guest-teacher-student and it would be cleared up. But instead she was taken to the other vice principal’s office and was told to sit in a chair and wait. Soon the hall monitor called in into the vice principal’s office and told him of Lisa’s “offences” the dress code violation, being out of class, back talking a office worker, and so on. The vice principal started his own interrogation and wouldn’t let Lisa explain that she wasn’t a student. It wasn’t until he actually brought the paddle out and instructed her to widen her stance and bend over the desk that in between tears she said she was just visiting from the community college and she was sorry for causing all this trouble.
The principal and office lady were both shocked and embarrassed about the incident and let her go back to class. When she told me and our friends back at school about this we were laughing and saying how different “up North” is from the South.

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