Mass. principal bans students from saying 'Meep!'

[chronobreak]

Ah, here's one that The Escapist should love, and it's right in my home state of Mass.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jE_jGmk8NKFD7AB1b20ncitdtxAQD9BU8GVG1

"Who knew "Meep!" was a four-letter word? The utterance favored by bungling lab assistant Beaker of "The Muppet Show" has been banned at Danvers High School in Massachusetts after students said it to repeatedly interrupt school.

Principal Thomas Murray said the word was part of a disruption planned using Facebook.

The Salem News reports that parents recently got an automated call about "Meep!" from Murray. He warned them that students who said or displayed the word at school could be suspended.

Murray says the warning was needed because students didn't heed his "reasonable request" to stop the meeping.

Danvers High sophomore Melanie Crane says it doesn't mean anything in particular."

Wow. One kid actually got suspended over this already I believe. What do you guys think? Is it going too far to ban a word, or are these kids just going out of their way to break the rules? I'm gonna side with the school on this one. It sounds like the kids are being asshats, and even stupid rules need to be followed sometimes, especially in an enviorment like a school, where it is important for young people to start learning structure.

 

[similar.squirrel]

The logical thing to do here is to start saying 'fuck'.

 

[Sassafrass]

It's hilarious.
Reminds me of the time my entire class at school all broke into applause at midday for no apparent reason. We all got put on class report but it was worth it.

Meep!

 

[ryai458]

whoa I thought you were saying meep to blank out the real word but it actually is "the" word thats awesome, meep!
Im going to start using that now.

 

[Aunel]

well whoohoo, then they will say "beep" instead,

it's a stupid solution for a stupid problem, but still it isn't fixing anything.

 

[Wayte]

It doesn't say why they were doing it though. Was it a protest of some other half-retarded rule? Was it sheer Ass-hattery? COntext is important in a judgement like this.

 

[Cargando]

It's a stupid rule, brought in because of stupid students.

 

[Radu889]

The logical thing to do here is to start saying 'fuck'.

Ninja'd...

"Shit" is a four-letter word too though

 

[Baby Tea]

Murray says the warning was needed because students didn't heed his "reasonable request" to stop the meeping.

This is the perfect sentence.
It's hilarious on so many levels, but really one in particular: ...stop the meeping.
Hehe...meeping.

Anyways!
I totally side with the school on this one. I mean, if it happened once as a big mass event during an assembly or something, then fine. Let it go. But if it's a continuous thing that is consistently disrupting classes, then do what you got to I suppose.

 

[Last of the Chinchillas]

I guess they'll just have to find some other nonsense word to shout out in order to annoy their teachers.

Meep!

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Just use "DERP" from now on. Problem solved.

 

[UltraParanoia]

The correct response is to start saying Ni.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

It's a stupid rule, brought in because of stupid students.

I guess this is why people say "This is why we can't have nice things!".

Personally I think the students were going out of their way to be dickheads about it.

 

[Cargando]

It's a stupid rule, brought in because of stupid students.

I guess this is why people say "This is why we can't have nice things!".

Personally I think the students were going out of their way to be dickheads about it.

Really? Fascinating, I have never heard that phrase before, what did you mean by it?

 

[Otterpoet]

It's good to see our educational system protecting our youth from such profanity.

I suggest that they ban all salacious, Muppet-related material and replace it immediately with the good, wholesomeness of Meet the Feebles!

 

[Ph33nix]

yay i love my effing state go mass we SUCK WICKED HAHD COOR

 

[Jhaotic]

It's hilarious.
Reminds me of the time my entire class at school all broke into applause at midday for no apparent reason. We all got put on class report but it was worth it.

Meep!

Hehe, reminds me of a period of about two months where my old maths class had a substitute teacher. Everytime he came into the room we stood up and gave him a round of applause.

The funny thing is, we never got punished for this. Not once. I think even though he realised we were just making fun of him he enjoyed the applause.

Meep!

 

[chronobreak]

Also, there are other stories that say a teacher at the school was intimidtaed by the word, or felt threatened by it. This was presented as one of the reasons the school decided to ban it. This whole thing is stupid, however. In my opinion, if they really wanted to take care of the problem, they would have had the teachers start saying it, therefore making it uncool. The kids would be done with it pretty quickly if they realized the administration thought it was "hip".

 

[Low Key]

The students brought it on themselves. Their idiocy enacted a stupid rule and now they have to deal with it.

The correct response is to start saying Ni.

And only stop after receiving a shrubbery.