Schools and Parenting

>[Johnston Public] Schools Supt. Margaret Iacovelli said a four-day investigation into who made the CD ended yesterday, when the students involved were given five-day suspensions, and ordered to perform 10 hours of community service and receive some in-school sensitivity training.

"We had to address the disruption at the school that the CD caused," Iacovelli said. "We looked at it in a different light because it also disrupted the community. So we gave them 10 hours of community service to help repair that damage."

Iacovelli apparently believes she is in charge of community health as well.

Iacovelli said the lack of respect toward women was a major reason for the administration to push the students into sensitivity training.

"In light of the CD, I think the kids need some additional education to be more tolerant," Iacovelli said. "I think this really brings to light that parents are always telling their kids to turn the music down -- maybe they need to listen to the lyrics."

In other words she will decide what mores and attitudes the students have and what their actions and activities will be inside and outside of school. Legality and parental rights be damned.