{"id":15095,"date":"2012-05-17T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T05:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15095"},"modified":"2012-05-16T16:47:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T21:47:14","slug":"this-months-prize-winner-for-bureaucratic-over-reaction-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/17\/this-months-prize-winner-for-bureaucratic-over-reaction-goes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"This month’s prize-winner for bureaucratic over-reaction goes to…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… Indiana’s Dr. Patrick Spray, superintendent of Mill Creek Schools for his breathtaking performance of over-reactor in an educational role<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the story: Five high school seniors in Indiana went into their school after hours, when it was officially off-limits, and decorated it with 10,000 Post-It notes. They used the notes to create a big, cheery \u201c2012\u2033 on the gym floor, for instance. They made bright patterns on the doors, and another big \u201c2012\u2033 on some windows. And for this, they were suspended for two days (during finals) and the janitor who supervised them got fired.<\/p>\n

What kills me most, though, is how the superintendent described the event: \u201cIt was just Post-It notes: no damage, thank goodness, occurred. Nobody was injured, thank goodness. It\u2019s the unintended stuff that sometimes causes issues\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The five kids who were suspended got vocal support from their classmates, so another over-reaction was called for … and delivered<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an update on today\u2019s story about the five seniors suspended from Indiana\u2019s Cascade High School for decorating it, at night, with Post-It Notes. Now a whopping 67 students have been suspended, because they were protesting the suspension of the Cascade Five.<\/p>\n

As you can hear in the TV report \u2014 presented by the stations \u201cCrime Beat\u201d reporter (making you wonder what exactly constitutes crime in Indiana) \u2014 the kids who did the \u201cprank\u201d got permission from a school board member and the head custodian. And even if they didn\u2019t, I agree with one of the commenters on my original post: While it\u2019s being labeled a \u201c\u2018prank\u201d it could just as easily have been labeled a beautification effort, or a morale booster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… Indiana’s Dr. Patrick Spray, superintendent of Mill Creek Schools for his breathtaking performance of over-reactor in an educational role: So here\u2019s the story: Five high school seniors in Indiana went into their school after hours, when it was officially off-limits, and decorated it with 10,000 Post-It notes. They used the notes to create a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,79,13],"tags":[620,322,504],"class_list":["post-15095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-education","category-usa","tag-indiana","tag-nannystate","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15096,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions\/15096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}