Can you believe this? I quote verbatim from
an entry at Boing Boing today.
An "A" student at a Virginia middle school was given a one-day suspension for holding open a door for a known adult who had her hands full. This violated the school security policy, which holds that the doors may only be opened centrally after visitors are vetted by a CCTV camera. Superintendant Charles Turner explained, "You have to have a system, and that system has to be consistent. We have to stay within the rules and stay secure."
But as Lenore Skenazy
writes on the Free Range Kids blog, "what the school fails to understand is that the student was an even BETTER security system! The student has a heart, a brain and hands. This incredible carbon-based security system can open the door when that makes sense!"
The evidence just continues to accumulate that we are a totally insane people.
3 comments:
Right. Carbon-based units often act optimally. We should try to have confidence in them.
The name of the game, however, is distrust everybody and suspect them without question.
Well, carbon-based units are notoriously prone to crap... as in the original Star Trek movie. "Veeger" said that a lot in that flick.
Perhaps they can be processed down to their basic minerals, elements, and terrorist plots and make it easy for the police-types to process.
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