A Valuable Experience
Another foray in the War on Drugs :
Armed police stormed a high school and ordered children to the floor at gunpoint so they could conduct a drugs search, it emerged today. Officers ran into the South Carolina school, screaming at pupils to lie face down, before rifling through their bags. Students who did not do as they were told were handcuffed.Parents were outraged at the raid, but principal George McCrackin said he would “utilize whatever forces that I deem necessary” to keep drugs out of the school. Stratford High School in Goose Creek has 2,700 pupils but does not have a reputation for drugs or crime. During the raid a sniffer dog found traces of substances in 12 bags, but no drugs were recovered. […] McCrackin denied the raid was an over-reaction. He said: “I’m sure it was an inconvenience to those individuals who were on that hallway. But I think there’s a valuable experience there.”
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.
— George Orwell
(Via Die Puny Humans )
I have said often that the main lesson of my public school experience was, "do not trust institutions. Individuals within them, sometimes; institutions themselves, never." Seems like this is that lesson turned up to eleven.
If it was my kids, they'd be out of that school so fast it'd make your head swim. Hmm. I hope if it was my kids they wouldn't be in that school to begin with.
Posted by Mris on November 11 2003 07:42