Showing posts with label texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label texas. Show all posts

Monday, 13 September 2010

No Tears in Texas

Words fail me:


A high school in the town of Trophy Club, TX suspended a 16-year-old boy because he came to school with bloodshot eyes. School administrators say that's enough to make the case he was using marijuana.
When the boy's mother called the school to explain that the boy had been crying because his father had been murdered, the school said the boy could return to school, provided the boy pass a drug test.
He took the test, and was allowed to return to school.
The boy's mother says she is trying to get the district to remove the suspension from his permanent record. Administrators told her she must go through the formal appeals process for that to happen.
And that's how it works in the happy hamlet of Trophy Club, TX.

Original story with TV report.

Thursday, 11 June 2009

'ello 'ello 'ello part 324 - Only in Texas

Pharyngula notes that 'hello' has now been officially replaced in a Texan county by 'heaven-o' because of the first satanic syllable of the traditional greeting. Think it'll catch on? Any alternative suggestions? What other words will we have to dump to stay on God's good side?