Hats off to the students of Danvers High for this awesome method of getting revenge on there principle.
Perhaps by now you’ve read some of the articles about how Principal Murray has tried to ban his students from saying meep and maybe you have not.
Its an annoying nonsense word. Teenagers are by nature annoying but trying to pass a rule that keeps them from saying this annoying nonsense word is only going to make the situation worse. Teenagers don’t like following pointless rules. To the point where they’ll go out of their way to rebel against them, even if said rebellion itself is rather pointless. Only a complete idiot would try to make and enforce (to teenagers, yet!) a rule that says “You’re not allowed to say meep.”
The students of the high school wrote articles about this pointless rule and listed the publicly available emails of these idiots known as of Principal Thomas Murray ( murray@danvers.org ), Assistant Principal Mark Strout ( strout@danvers.org ), Assistant Principal Cornelia Varoudakis ( cvaroudakis@danvers.org ), and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lisa Dana ( dana@danvers.org ) in these articles and proceeded to submit those articles to any and every website that they could as well as forwarding the emails on to everyone they new.
All of these people then received received a reply email from Assistant Principal Mark Strout, which said (in full) “Your E-mail has been forwarded to the Danvers Police Department.”
What a pathetic scare tactic. There’s no law that would prevent me from sending a single, non-commercial,non threatening email, containing a single nonsense “word” (but impliedly relating to their work as school officials) to adults at their publicly-posted work emails. Since this is a single email it would not qualify as harassment since that has to be multiple acts by the same individual.
But whats even funnier is the school officials actually thing the police are going to give a crap! I couldn’t even get them to arrest the crazy neighbor who threatened to kill my dogs and children and pulled a gun on my husband and they actually think the police would do something about hundreds of thousands of emails that simply say “Meep” in the subject line. Ha!!! No public servant is going to do that much paperwork.
Attempts to silence information on the internet, even nonsense information, are consistently met with a proliferation of that very information (or nonsense) beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. Anyone who tries to stop people’s honest criticism of their conduct — especially if they show that they’re highly sensitive to criticism (Going to the police? Seriously?) — is likely to be the target of further criticism. Principal Murray and Assistant Principal Strout have provided an astonishingly stereotypical example of cluelessness we often find in older adults who have no concept of just how much the internet has changed the world.
So next time someone pisses you off this is a form of revenge you might want to consider
