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Why can some schools get away with this sort of thing?

Kneel for principal policy abandoned at Calimesa Elementary School

This is one of those to stupid to make up stories, and I'm glad it got stopped, but how did a school get away with this level of derp :screwy in the first place?



DavidandDeve
"Now, let me tell you the REAL story. This principal is a former PE coach, and has coached many teams in our community. Some children at this school were getting injured when they were running in from recess. He was enacting a policy of 'taking a knee',as they do at sporting events, when the bell rang. (They were also given the option to sit.) Then, the yard duty teacher would come by and dismiss them individually to go back to class. He was trying to prevent further injuries, a one parent, (who'd obviously doesn't go to sporting events) took it as kneeling, sent out a flyer, called the media, gave her side, and the story was picked up across the nation. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!!!! Nobody bothered to get the facts of the story. They simply reported a crazy lady's side because it grabs headlines. Now you know....the rest of the story."
 
DavidandDeve
"Now, let me tell you the REAL story. This principal is a former PE coach, and has coached many teams in our community. Some children at this school were getting injured when they were running in from recess. He was enacting a policy of 'taking a knee',as they do at sporting events, when the bell rang. (They were also given the option to sit.) Then, the yard duty teacher would come by and dismiss them individually to go back to class. He was trying to prevent further injuries, a one parent, (who'd obviously doesn't go to sporting events) took it as kneeling, sent out a flyer, called the media, gave her side, and the story was picked up across the nation. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!!!! Nobody bothered to get the facts of the story. They simply reported a crazy lady's side because it grabs headlines. Now you know....the rest of the story."

There would be about a million better ways of doing that. He knows what he did.
 
DavidandDeve
"Now, let me tell you the REAL story. This principal is a former PE coach, and has coached many teams in our community. Some children at this school were getting injured when they were running in from recess. He was enacting a policy of 'taking a knee',as they do at sporting events, when the bell rang. (They were also given the option to sit.) Then, the yard duty teacher would come by and dismiss them individually to go back to class. He was trying to prevent further injuries, a one parent, (who'd obviously doesn't go to sporting events) took it as kneeling, sent out a flyer, called the media, gave her side, and the story was picked up across the nation. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!!!! Nobody bothered to get the facts of the story. They simply reported a crazy lady's side because it grabs headlines. Now you know....the rest of the story."

Ok that at least sounds alot better. But its misinterpetable. He's nolonger PE teacher he's a principal he has to take into what it looks like hes doing as much as what it is he is doing. Yes it probably improves safety. But it also looks like hes makeing kids bow to him or teacher on duty. Yes it got headlines becuase it sounds on the surface completly nuts. Looking twice it sounds alot better. But again it can be taken to wrong.
 
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