Why we hate schools

As someone who has been in school or worked in school for all but six years of his life, I always get upset when i see another article of schools doing something stupid. And sometimes schools do stupid things.
a school in north Carolina suspended a 4th grader for two days because a substitute teacher overheard him telling a classmate that one of his teachers was cute. they claimed it was sexual intimidation.  An 8 year old calling a teacher cute is Sexual intimidation. Personally, I don't think an 8 year old is capable of intimidating anyone over the age of 10 and cute is not what I would think of as an intimidating comment.
I remember my 7th grade year at Harding Jr high School. I was 11, maybe 12, we had a young English teacher, Miss Fruchtman. She was maybe 22 or 23 and cute was not one of the words that the boys in the school used to describe her. If cute rates a two day suspension, we would have been out until we could shave.  She was actually my doctors daughter. My father and her father had gone to the same High School in Europe, they used to repeat latin statements to each other that they learned in school. to their amusement and to my boredom. His daughter was never the less, stunning, and anyone overhearing the comments passing among her prepubescent male students would by Carolina standards be totally shocked.
I can't understand why people running schools can't understand that kids are kids and not short adults. They are usually silly and rarely mean what they say or do. And to accuse 8 year olds with sexual intimidation against adults merely adds to the public conception that schools suck. I weep for my occupation

The Truffles are in

I went to Wegmans Supermarket the other day to pick up a few cases of seltzer. For some reason, their price for seltzer is the most reasonable in the area.
As I wandered through the produce section, I saw that the exotic mushroom case was full with Burgundy Truffles, ranging in size from large marbles to small golf balls, each embedded in a layer of rice and all kept safe under lock and key. The price was listed at $ 599.00 per pound. Needless to say, I passed. Actually, no one buys a pound of truffles, you buy one for 25 dollars or so and use it for some fancy meal or sauce. I was planning to make meatloaf that night so I had no need for a truffle.   Then a surprising thing occurred as I prepared to post this. I googled burgundy truffle and images to get the picture that you see here. I saw the expected mushrooms, and some pictures of candy truffles (they are made to look like the fungus) but then I saw a photo of a young man wearing purple underwear. Clicking on the picture said that they were called burgundy truffles. Now I've heard underwear referred to by a lot of different names, none of which you will see here, but truffles was not one of those names.  Delving deeper into this burgundy truffle mystery, I read that the undergarment in question was made of a material that contained 5% seaweed, and how this material facilitates the exchange of vitamins and minerals between your body and the garment. Acting both as an anti inflammatory and a source of vitamin E.
Underwear that acts like a vitamin pill?  The world must be coming to an end.