It's always so horrible when people in authority assume that they just "know" when somebody's lying.
Some people - including children - lie without stress. While others are so upset at simply being accused that they LOOK ashamed even when they're innocent. Which gets interpreted as a lie.
To punish a child that way AT ALL is far worse, I believe, than a paddling - to destroy a reputation is much worse than to inflict a small amount of temporary pain.
But to do it without even a pretense of due process or verification, just taking someone's word for it, is outrageous. The principal should not simply have been fired, the principal should have been taken from classroom to classroom and had all the students hear her admit her mistake and be called a bad principal and an unfair judge. But of course that was NOT done....
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
Assuming you know who's lying and who isn't is what killed a certain character on Lost, isn't it? When people aren't believed in when they're telling the truth, it can KILL them!
Great moral lessons from television #74.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
So what are the other 73?
<-- Hasn't watched tv in over a year, is a bit lost.
--Mel
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
"Lost", hehe.
<--is not punny at all.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
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