Graduating Sober but Illiterate ?

The business of the public high school is EDUCATION, the

    teachers TEACH, the students LEARN.  What matters is the subject matter

    - math, science, history, literature. But it seems that our schools can

    hardly teach the kids the ABCs.  Soon most of Rhode Island will be

    semi-literate or illiterate.

              Now I read about the principal of Middletown High School, John

    Regan, who would  ban an honor student , Alicia Moriarty, from commencement

    because she had been drinking before the prom.

           The man is a sanctimonious jackass - all POMP under the circumstances !

           As for me - if the kid had taken LSD on prom night, it was none of

    the school's business.  And some drinkers are excellent THINKERS. Just

    don't drive !

               True  enough, public education has become  " a conspiracy of

    ignorance " .  Too many teachers know more  and more about how to teach

    less and less. A Doctor of Education should get as much respect as the

    average chiropractor.

                 To the graduates :  CHEERS !