Whining children

Every day at high school, someone gets his feelings hurt. He whines. He thinks he's entitled to stamp his feet and pitch a fit until someone will agree with him, or decide it's not worth the fight.

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And then, the crybaby gets his own way, regardless of how stupid that way is, and how immaturely he has behaved in order to get it.

Sadly, in this whiner's world of the 21st century, the crybaby is — all too frequently — a teacher or administrator, and not a 14-year-old.

Yesterday, the principal at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California, sent Daniel Galli, Dominic Maciel, and three other students home for incendiary conduct. Presumably to protest Cinco de Mayo (or maybe to celebrate free expression, or ... what is it called ... America?), the boys wore T-shirts bearing American flags. To the feeble-minded infants running the school, that's as good as inciting violence.

They were told they could wear their patriotic clothes on any day other than May 5. They had to refrain that day out of respect for Hispanic students.

According to Maciel: "They said if we went back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended." So the boys went home instead. They returned the next day and will not be otherwise punished.

Principal Nick Boden would rather the students skip a day of school than see them in the classroom wearing red, white, and blue. Do his teachers have nothing important to teach that day?

Or, perhaps, Boden feared the patriotic clothing would cause disruption. If so, is he so deeply racist that he thinks Hispanic teenagers are incapable of behaving when they see an Old Navy t-shirt?

Probably, it's neither of these. Probably, he's just a bully. A whiny, wimpy punk so lacking in manhood that he hardly qualifies as a human being. The kind of weakling who is so dissatisfied with who he is, that he must dominate others by force to justify his own existence to himself.

I'm a little disappointed in these teenagers (although, at that age, I probably would have done the same). But if I were in their shoes yesterday, and I could muster the wit and fortitude for it, I would have done things a little differently. I would have left the principal's office and returned to class. Then, when they suspended me, I would have declined to leave the classroom, unless they physically removed me by force. Then, I would have filed suit for assault, battery, intentional affliction of emotional distress, and a violation of my First Amendment rights.

However, it's hard to hold much against these teenagers. When I was their age, I was occasionally bullied by teachers (though, not to this extent), and I let them get away with it. I wish I hadn't, but it's hard for adolescents to stand up for themselves at school. They're just kids.

The principal, however, is another matter. He is as grown as he'll ever be (although, after reading about how he treats people, it's hard to call him an adult) and he has an advanced college degree. He has absolutely no excuse. The school district has already released a statement denouncing the principal's actions, or at least stating disagreement.

It ought to go further, and fire him.