Thursday, February 28, 2013

Would You Teach This Student?

Here is a picture of my 17-year-old daughter Kalypso.
Kalypso
For wearing this outfit, she was pulled out of all of her classes at Lusher Charter High School and she spent the day in the dean's office doing nothing but sitting in a chair and contemplating her poor behavior. She was also prevented from attending her college credit French class at Tulane University. She was supposed to go to detention this afternoon and again miss her French class. I told her to skip the detention and go to her class. I'm fully aware that there is value in learning to navigate through situations where difficult people throw up hurdles. So there are three months left in her senior year, and she has learned a valuable lesson in that someone at Lusher prefers jeans. This all reminds me of why I hated high school. I loved college though. Hope she does too. 

5 comments:

Tim Bulkeley said...

School is a sort of purgatory people must endure until adults deem them tame enough to start learning.

Anonymous said...

Wowza, is Fontenot, formerly the fashion police of Ben Franklin, now at Lusher? What exactly was deemed wrong with her outfit? She looks totally covered to me.

Mock Molly said...

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Anonymous said...

It is rather weird because even though she wear rather strange outfit, I don`t think it to be that bad so a student could be pulled out of all the classes. I mean I could understand if she was wearing inappropriately, let us say, so everyone could see her breast or below the back but she looks okay to me. http://findwritingservice.com/blog/essay-on-diabetes-does-the-exit-exist is a sample of a paper written by a professional writer.

Unknown said...

Everybody should have a chance to study, to develop skills and be more successful studying. It's normal, when a 17-year old person tries to find her own way in life. So, it would be nice to help her in her life and studying, it's a great challenge for any teacher! Maybe, in future she will become a great writer, for example at top writing service.