On the Subject of Peni

This is a comment on the beginning of the last SPLOoGE post by a concerned student.

Mitch Fink was half right when he said that "...the school system is based mainly on if you play football or not and who your parents are." What he should have said was, "The school system is based mainly on giving special treatment to the students who score touchdowns and hit home runs." It's a shame that the administrators put more value in the athlete half of "student-athlete". Student comes first in that phrase for a reason; student-athletes are primarily in school to get an education. If they bring the school glory on the playing field then that is an added bonus. As far as I can tell, when the principals look at some students they see trophies in a trophy case rather than real people.
Does it really matter if your school's best football player has sex in the bathroom? Apparently the answer is...not as long as he scores lots of touchdowns and the team is on track to make the playoffs. Not that it would have mattered if the team was 0-5 or 5-0, he still would have been treated specially because college scouts come to see him play and that means more publicity for the school.
Does it really matter if one of your school's best baseball players gets caught leaving school early? Apparently the answer to that one is also...no. It didn't even matter that his subsequent 3-day suspension coincided with the teams mandatory try-outs. Almost any other player who got suspended during try-outs would have been barred from joining the team, but evidently it is more important to win games than it is to treat all members of the team equally.
Does it really matter that an average student cut a penis out of paper and projected it on a wall? Apparently the answer is...hell yeah. Mr. Wentzel must have felt a real sense of accomplishment knowing that the kid who cut out a paper penis is serving hard time for his "crime". I'll bet he went home and bragged to Mrs. Wentzel about how he nabbed that filthy scum, Mitch Fink, and gave him the punishment he "deserved".
The illogical manner in which the principals mete out punishment is a perfect illustration of the backwards nature of our administration. It's sorta scary to know that I spend 1/4 of every day in a place where a penis cutter-outer and a penis inner-outer get the same sentence.

~Dan Malady~