"Murray and Strout don't understand human nature. People -- especially teenagers -- don't like following pointless rules."
Au Contraire -- Murray and Strout understand fully, but as employees of the public school system, Murray and Strout are paid to teach their students to follow pointless rules with docility and even joy (or at least the feeling that they are doing the right thing).
(Edit -- I consider it a compliment that I get upvoted and downvoted so often. Teenage rebel gives me a point... humorless school principal takes it away...)
That is true. School is in part supposed to teach you to live with requirements. After all it should be preparing students for the workforce, and in the real world if you are working for an employer they might have similar strange and seemingly unreasonable requirements.
Yet I guess that the hackers and independent entrepreneurs among us can not help but sympathize with a rebellion against the status quo, even if it is over something as trivial as the word "meep". What else would cause a grown adult to send a "meep" email to a school principal?
I just find it funny that the thing has turned into a holy war of sorts.
Au Contraire -- Murray and Strout understand fully, but as employees of the public school system, Murray and Strout are paid to teach their students to follow pointless rules with docility and even joy (or at least the feeling that they are doing the right thing).
(Edit -- I consider it a compliment that I get upvoted and downvoted so often. Teenage rebel gives me a point... humorless school principal takes it away...)