Zero Tolerance For Common Sense
<a href="http://www.newsnet5.com/news/1498128/detail.html"; target="_blank">A seventh-grade Euclid boy was given detentions and suspended from recess for inhaling helium from a balloon while in school.</a>
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Although the axact way the situation was handled is unknown, seventh graders can be disruptive and difficult... Was the kid a class clown? Where there any prior warnings for disturbing the classroom? Given the fact that getting detention and suspention from "recess" somehow got in the public news leaves me with some hesitation to "go all balistic here"... besides he is lucky to have gotten this penalty and not smacked around the room by a catholic nun...
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I thought this was a thread about me! <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" />
There wouldn't be a blemish on the public view of this boy at all if his father hadn't complained to the media.
Now, having done something almost inconsequential and given a wrist-slapping, and eveyone hsa to know about it... Jeez.
Helium is actually not very good for you. I don't do drugs that aren't prescribed - my closest was inhaling approximately 4 balloons full of helium during a party in 8th grade. Never mind my voice which didn't go down for 6 hours, I was lightheaded, short of breath, heart pounding, and my eyes blood red.
My father explained to me (dunno if this is ture) that helium raises your voice by constricting your vocal cords. If I had had another balloon, they would have closed and I'd be dead.