Student Takes Dump In Cafeteria Bowl - Sets Off Chain Of Events

[matcom]

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A student who defecated in a lunchroom bowl triggered a series of events that culminated in the recent walkout by four workers in the Fort Defiance High School cafeteria, The News Virginian has learned.

In all, five students were suspended or expelled from the Verona school - including two whose mothers worked in the cafeteria and who were defending their mothers’ honor.

It all began Feb. 9 when two Fort students - including a guidance counselor’s son - bet a third student $15 he would not defecate in a bowl.

That student took the 5-ounce Styrofoam soup bowl to the bathroom and returned to the cafeteria, then placed the excrement-filled bowl on the conveyor belt that hauls empty dishes to the kitchen.

The News Virginian confirmed the incident, which school officials refused to discuss, through three of the cafeteria workers and through the father of the boy who defecated in the bowl. That boy was expelled for the rest of the year and will not be allowed back at Fort Defiance High, although he will be allowed to finish his senior year at another Augusta County school, his father said.

Four cafeteria workers walked off the job March 10, citing lack of support from school administrators and uneven discipline for students. A fifth, who tried to break up a pushing match between her son and the guidance counselor’s son, was dismissed at the same time. She has been charged with assault.

The cafeteria workers -who were replaced - agreed to be interviewed if their names were withheld on their attorney’s advice. The News Virginian also is withholding the names of all the Fort students involved.

“The administration doesn’t treat people fairly,” said one of the cafeteria workers, who spent 11 years in the school district. “It’s all in who you are as to what you can get away with. We walked out because of the kids. Something needs to be done. Sooner or later somebody’s gonna get hurt really bad down here.”

The worker said she called Principal Paul “Chip” Hill after discovering the bowl of excrement. He laughed, she said.

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[underpants]

1. Imagine showing up for football practice to find a turd in your helmet

I didn't do it and it didn't happen to me but I know who did it and that is all I am saying

[Arugula Latte]

6. Hmmm ...

:think: Matcom?

[Taxloss]

2. It's ironic that a guidance counsellor's son should be maladjusted.

Mmkay?



Revolting story, though. Well done.

Edited for ytop.

[ChoralScholar]

5. A lot of people become counselors for the same reason they become

administrators:

The degrees are readily available, and it means a significant pay increase. There are some great counselors, but by and large, a lot of them are just people who wanted a few thousand extra in their check.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Guidance counselors are the biggest fucking waste of taxpayers money

in the school system. They add no value at all, they really don't do anything for or with the students, and generally just eat up money and office space.

Or at least, the biggest specific waste. The greater, though more general waste, is the 1800 levels of administration filled 95% with people whose jobs are acyually to do nothing that adds any value to the system, and, basically, serve only to hamper the people who actually work and who actually teach.

[Patiod]

10. The obligatory "but I know a great counselor" reply:

You KNEW that someone would object!

My friend's brother is a guidance counselor in a relatively poor, rural school. The kids don't go off to college, and as anyone who has ever read Robert Reich knows, this country does NOT prepare its non-college kids for ANYTHING (esp compare to europe)

But anyway, he works REALLY hard at finding opportunities for the non-college-bound, which is no piece of cake. Works to open the kid's eyes to the possibilies outside their little world. A good person, doing important, if underappreciated work.

/obligatory response complete

[ChoralScholar]

11. To quote myself:

"There are some great counselors"

Mine wasn't one of them. The last school I taught at, however, had a great one. I can't imagine her being a classroom teacher. Counseling was her calling. Not to mention, that we had a registrar also, so the counselor didn't have to worry about the nuts and bolts of class schedules.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Ironic, yes. Surprising, no.

[DS1]

3. They should've deep-fried it and made him eat it

:D

[Beetwasher]

4. Something About This Story Stinks

Are they sure it was a turd? Perhaps it was just the left over Sloppy Joe. I'm just saying.

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Your subject line made me think it was some kinda Rube Goldberg device.

:shrug:

[libnnc]

12. Okay then, the little crappers who pulled this stunt...

should be made to work in the cafeteria, during school hours, at the tray collection/garbage station, wearing the apron, hair net and plastic gloves. Make THEM clean up after everybody at the school FOR A WHOLE WEEK. Arrogant little punk-assed bastards.

Makes me want to break something. :mad: