More fun on the education front.  In a school district in New Jersey 29 students have been given two days of detention for paying for their $2 lunches in pennies.  Apparently it started out as a prank, but then turned into a protest over shortened lunch periods.  The school superintendent says that the students were disciplined "for holding up their peers and disrespecting lunch aides."

What I love is that the "educators", who must see every problem as a nail that must be hammered, couldn’t come up with a solution that would counteract the protest.  The evidence that the "educators" were outsmarted by the eighth graders is the fact that the local media picked up the story.

What could the "educators" have done to avoid this little PR fiasco?  Maybe take the pennies, put them in a cup labeled with that students name and then count them after the lunch period is over.  If the student’s payment is short then he or she can be billed for it later.  That way the students’ peers aren’t held up and their protest will peter out fairly quickly once they realize how hard it is to gather 200 pennies on a daily basis and then tote them to school.

Hey I’ll be the first to say that eight graders can be a royal pain in the a– to deal with, and sometimes I think that middle school teachers should get combat pay, but to be so stupid as this I think the "educators" involved here are getting what’s coming to them.