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To: TimF who wrote (3212)	2/19/2009 11:01:09 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3816

Then that was a real coincidence that you posted that to me! His senior year, spring...well, wait I think I wrote about it here somehere in the past... XYZebra had posted this picture: laughnet.net which happened to be part of how CW into big trouble senior year --- IN the spring of his senior year, having visited several excellent universities on his college search, and having been exposed to those typical college underground newspapers during his visits, he decided that this was just what his high school needed so he set up a site on line, completely unrelated to the school, and recruited some fellow students as writers, and proceeded to publish Props.com, a site that lambasted teachers and students alike. It was an immediate hit, needless to say. Word spread like wildfire, and about a week before graduation we got a call from the principal asking us to come in. We were informed that our son (Merit Scholar, Captain of the Swim Team, President of the Computer Club, State Science Fair winner and heading to Rice U) was not going to graduate from high school. He and his friends (whome he never turned in) had insulted too many teachers and administration and they were well and truly pissed and were demanding that CW not be allowed to graduate. One of the angriest was a very Christian coach whose name, changed by one letter, just happened to be used as a caption for that picture. "Coach T**** relaxes after the big game with quarterback *** with a cold one." The quarterback was also a very strong Christian-- he was the one who always knelt down and led the prayers on the field after every game. (THis is the Bible Belt -- what can I say?) My son is an outspoken atheist, which didn't go over well with some of the teachers. ANd he also is not easily intimidated. First Amendment! First Amendment!!! He screamed. Well, luckily my very reasonable lawyer husband managed to shut him up and negotiated a week of community service and they "let" him GRADUATE. It was a diplomatic solution, the principal knew there was no real way they could legally withhold his degree without a big legal battle, and we told CW to shut up, he had a younger brother to think about and he should have had better manners anyway. It's the one time my husband and I ever disagreed about something though-- I thought the school was wrong and we shouldn't cater to them. Not that at home, CW didn't get an earful about being smart as well as being a smart-ass, and how cruelty and rudeness is never funny. Reading that story of yours, though---- we maybe were very lucky that our principal and my husband were thoughtful, solution-driven men whose egos didn't get in the way of compromising.