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Saturday, April 25, 2015

World gone mad. "School bus driver bans little girl from reading."

via Boing Boing: "The school bus driver in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec told 8 year old Sarah Auger she wasn't allowed to read on the way to and from school because she might poke herself in the eye with a corner of the book. He also speculated that other children might be tempted to rise from their seats to look at her book...

The Hautes-Rivière school board conceded that books are "obviously" not dangerous, but they backed the driver anyway, because "the person who drives the bus is allowed to make the rules.""

2 comments:

  1. At our son's second grade teacher's conference, many moons past, the teacher said with a straight face
    "Your son needs to stop reading books in my class"
    "What?" We asked.
    "He reads books instead of paying attention to me."

    Yes, that's right, a teacher requested we ask our son to stop reading in school. Cheers!

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    1. I used to get busted for reading off-subject books in class too...

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