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Principal Apologizes For Smoking At School

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How do all of you feel about school administrators or teachers smoking on public school grounds?

School Smoking Apologizes Principal

In my community, it is illegal for anyone to smoke on school grounds. I don't know if it is a city ordinance or a state law. I think it is a state law because I know it isn't just my city with this law.

So, since it is illegal, they shouldn't be allowed to do it.

As far as whether or not it should be illegal, I have mixed feelings. The problem is that smoking is legal. So, I don't believe you should be restricted from doing it just because you are on school grounds. As long as it is done outside in an area designated for teachers to smoke, I see no real problem with it.

The idea that they shouldn't do it because then students will want to do it, doesn't wash with me.

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I believe there is a real problem with kids smoking at a young age, and agree with rules that prevent teachers from smoking on school grounds. I think that as authoritative figures in school, teachers and administrators should set an example while on school property. As for it being illegal, that is another story. Setting rules of etiquette is very different from making an activity illegal.

School Smoking Apologizes Principal

I agree that if there are going to be rules against students smoking on school grounds, then teachers and administrators should not be doing it either.

However, what I see as being the real story here is the fact that the school suspended the student - not for posting dangerous or obscene materials, but for exposing the criminal conduct of the principal. Now, they are telling him that he was completely wrong in doing so, and must find a "better way of expressing disagreements."

School Smoking Apologizes Principal

I wonder if the objection was simply that a picture was posted without permission. We are all assuming it is because the principal didn't want his behavior exposed. Perhaps, he didn't want his picture out on the internet for all the world to see. This could be a matter of privacy.

Principal Apologizes For Smoking At School

I personally believe that people get too worked up over cigarets. I only would have a problem with the administrator if he was smoking indoors as the second hand smoke is harmful and above all stinky. But outdoors? I say let the poor man smoke; working with small children is enough to drive anyone to smoking, but I digress... Children see the hipacritical nature of adults nearly every day, they realize that the double standard exists, between children and adults and I don't think seeing their teachers smoking is going to harm them in any way. If anything, rebellious students (I.e. the ones likely to smoke) won't want to be anything like their teachers and therefore less likely to smoke. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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