Kid Given Detention for Being an 11-Year-Old Boy
Don't Fart On MeRiding on a school bus just got a heck of a lot tougher for Ohio tweens. After farting on the bus, one 11-year-old rider was sent straight to detention. The school bus driver felt the kid was doing it for laughs, since the farting was, in fact, followed by gales of pre-teen laughter. Imagine that!
The smeller that was the feller was Christian Summers of Cleveland, Ohio. Naturally, he thinks it was unfair. After all, "it was an accident."
You know, I don't like anyone smelling up an enclosed space anymore than the next gal, but farting is practically an art form for a pre-teen. It may be obnoxious, rank, offensive to other's senses -- but pretty run-of-the-mill. In fact, if the kids on the bus weren't laughing about the crop-dusting coming from Summers, I'd be more inclined to send them to the principal's office to be checked for depression.
So why was the bus driver so peeved?
Along with his detention slip, the driver wrote that Christian's biggest offense was that he “thinks it’s funny to pass gas while on the van.”
Listen bus driver, it is funny. Bodily functions are hi-lar-ious to the pre-pube set. If he'd hocked a loogy, spit it up in the air, and caught it, everyone would have doubled over as well. It's disgusting for adults (and squeamish kids) but still undeniably awesome to a group of 11-year-old boys. In fact, you probably just gave that Summers kid the rep he needed to stay on top of the pack. Well played, authority figure. Well played.
As for Christian Summers? He just bought himself a one-way ticket to popularity-ville. At least until he starts getting really interested in what the girls think.
Do you think kids should be given detention for farting?
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Bethsunshine
My word. Kids don't get in trouble for beating up and bullying other kids, but a kid gets in trouble for FARTING?!? When I read stuff like this, it makes me happier than ever that I am homeschooling!! What a bunch of nonsense!!
Sara
KTMOM
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. If someone gave my son detention for farting I would laugh in their face.
M
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Kimberly Virga
Totally ridiculous. It's things like this that truly make me consider home schooling my children one day. People are ridiculous. SO uptight. Why are we freaking out about a fart?! Shouldn't we be a LITTLE more concerned about the alleged 'horrific' bullying, so badly that these kids are being driven to abuse themselves?? He is a kid being a kid, albeit an obnoxious one, but a KID. A BOY. That bus driver should have taken the appropriate steps in order to tell his parents, if it was SO OFFENSIVE. Good Lord! Detention? What's next, we give out detentions for someone who burps accidentally in class or something else that kids are apt to do by accident, and we try to 'save' and coddle the ones who threaten and bully?? Give me a break.
AmyinMotown
What Nonmember M said; however, April's 100 percent right that it just made him more popular. And my nephews live in Cieveland--I'll have to make sure they know about this because they already think farting is HILARIOUS.
Crissi Dillon
Are you all kidding? Yes, he should be punished! He wasn't just having an accident, he was being foul on purpose! Anyone who argues otherwise is clearly delusional. If we don't teach our kids manners in decent behavior now, what are they going to be like later? It's not funny, it's gross and offensive, and shouldn't be encouraged.
Crissi Dillon
P.S. It's not like he's being expelled, it's detention for Pete's sake.
bethany169
What is he disrupting on the bus?!?! Have schools started having lessons on the bus and I missed it? Seriously, we give our children absolutely no time to just be children, it's ridiculous.