Guaranteed to bring up a smile…
Somehow this story always reminds me of Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai, admonishing his prisoners, “Be happy in your work.”
What kind of kooks are coming out of teachers’ colleges? “Smile or else”? They command the students to be cheerful? One can hardly help asking, “About what? About having to be in this loony bin?”
I don’t think “school officials” ever explained what this policy was supposed to achieve.
Probably just slipped their minds.
Where do “educators” come from? Is there a special place they go to, where they pick up strange ideas–or are they born cuckoo in the first place?
In North Lebenon, PA, schools in 2018, students had to smile all the time–yes, the whole time they were in school (and that is certainly nothing to smile about!)–or else get put into “counseling,” or detention.
Fill in the blank and win a tin-foil hat! “I send my kids to public school to be ‘educated’ by full-blown loonies because __________.
If you still think there might be sane people somewhere involved with public education, consider this.
In the North Lebanon, Pennsylvania, school district, the school policy is that students must smile in the hallway or else be put into “counseling”–and if that doesn’t work, detention (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/05/16/school-students-required-smile/).
“Northern Lebanon officials,” says the news report from Pittsburgh, “did not explain what the purpose of the smiling policy was or what it is supposed to achieve.”
Kowabunga. R.J. Rushdoony would say its purpose is to enforce conformity and assert its power. I’d say he was right. Otherwise it’s just plain craziness. We can’t rule that out.
Really, people–do you want your children and grandchildren “educated” by these kooks?
If you walk around grinning all the time, don’t answer that.