Ban on Intentional Flatulence.....

[Roscoe]

Middle school issues ban on intentional flatulence
By Holly S. Anderson
VillageSoup/Knox County Times Senior Reporter


CAMDEN (Feb 1): The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: "flatus expelled through the anus." And while it's a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus.
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According to this week's Fire Cracker school newsletter though, the joke's on the boys as the penalty for "intentional farting" is now a detention.

"Strange, but true, thanks to a bunch of 8th grade boys, intentional farting has been banned from CRMS," the newsletter said. "It started out as a funny joke and eventually turned into a game. This is the first rule at CRMS that prevents the use of natural bodily functions. The penalty for intentional farting is a detention, so keep it to yourself!"

According to a group of seventh-grade students milling around downtown following Friday's storm-related early release, the eighth-graders' escapades are well known in the school.

"They would do it in science class and other places," said Jordan Tyler. "It's a natural occurrence and we all do it 16 times a day."

When questioned where he learned that information, Tyler and the other students all said it was true, though they couldn't remember where they heard it.

One of the other students, Kyle Ruger, said the act by the boys was funny, but he had mixed feelings about whether it was appropriate.

Jordan Knowlton minced no words when she expressed how she felt, saying, "It's gross."

Remy LeVine said he was in the class when CRMS science teacher Brad LaRoche talked to all the eighth-grade boys about the issue, as well as the consequences.

Attempts to reach CRMS Principal Maria Libby Friday afternoon were unsuccessful and school Superintendent Patricia Hopkins said she had not heard anything about the issue or the alleged suspected result, though she did get a good chuckle out of the news.

VillageSoup will provide more information when it is available.

VillageSoup/Knox County Times Senior Reporter Holly S. Anderson can be reached at 207-236-2496 or by e-mail at holly@villagesoup.com.

[GlynMeek]

Let me play "resident curmudgeon" here if I may. We would have been CANED at my English high school (second oldest in England, founded in 1553) for this. Detention seems way too lenient!



and

a) let's bring back school uniforms
b) let's allow teachers to clip some student behind the back of the head for smarta$$ comments in class
c) the parents of said offenders should get the detention
d) let's give the principal a raise for having principles!!!!

[Roscoe]

you didn't wear one of those funny looking caps did you????

Roscoe

[GlynMeek]

Unfortunately "yes"...rofl, and in the summer we HAD to wear a straw 'boater'. ALL the masters wore the old style gowns, and the headmaster wore a mortar board to morning assembly!

I think the 'townies' used to beat me up once a week or so!

[trularin]

GlynMeek, dang dude, that almost sounds like something out of a Dickens novel.

What got you to the states?

[GlynMeek]

Land of opportunity, brain drain etc. etc. Been in high tech for 37 years, and eventually found a firm that would move me to the US. Had already lived in Germany and France working on Space Projects. Moved first to Dallas and then joined Dell as first CIO in 1989 and moved to Austin.

Glyn