The worst people
By
Deirdre Griswold
Published Jun 13, 2011 6:49 PM
The flag-waving, “Mission Accomplished” crowd is having a
hissy fit. All because of a yearbook put out by the students of Russellville
Middle School in Arkansas.
Fox News is suggesting there should be an investigation. Gosh, what would they
find? Subversives?
It seems someone — undoubtedly one or more students — got creative
and inserted a list of the “Top 5 worst people of all time.” It had
Hitler on it, plus Osama bin Laden and Charles Manson. So far no feathers
ruffled.
But then they had the audacity, the sheer mind-boggling nerve to add —
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney!
The sky fell in. The yearbook adviser, who said she hadn’t noticed, was
called on the carpet. The school tried putting black tape over the list. (The
yearbook had already been printed.) But the tape was easy to pull off. Which,
of course, everyone did.
There used to be a saying, “Out of the mouths of babes.” The
dictionary says it means “something that surprises you because it shows
an adult’s wisdom and understanding of a situation.” Kids in middle
school are no longer babes, but they are kids. Grownups think they have to tell
them what to think — but these kids are old enough to have minds of their
own.
Thanks, whoever you are at Russellville Middle School, for affirming that this
rising generation already has a lot of wisdom and understanding of the
political situation.
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