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Child discipline expert Dr. Michele Borba says that an Ohio middle school's decision to suspend 13-year-old Anthony Nichols for farting on the school bus reeks of poor judgement. A week after two seventh-graders were kicked off their school bus and punished for alleged flatulence, child discipline experts say the incident still stinks to high hell.
In case you're just getting wind of this story, 13-year-old Anthony Nichols and a classmate faced a one-day suspension from Canal Winchester Middle School in Ohio last Friday after their bus driver reported the boys for passing gas on the bus.
Nichols' father, James, didn't deny the boy was a repeat offender when it comes to passing gas, sometimes to make the sort of joke that boys of that age will make. But he's fuming that school officials have described the impolite act as an obscene gesture, as if he and his friend had flipped someone off.
Now the tale of flatulence and punishment, first reported by the Columbus Dispatch, is making more than a little squeak, garnering national attention from CBS News, Gawker and the New York Daily News, even scoring a retweet from Sports Illustrated's Peter King, who let his 550,000 Twitter followers know, I have no comment.
According to James Nichols, his son actually turned himself in, thinking that honesty would exempt him from punishment.
Where is the logic? he asked AOL Weird News. I guess it is, 'Don't create disturbances on the bus,' but we go back again and whose fault was it that there was commotion? The person who farted or the people who reacted to it?
Parenting and disciplinary experts tend to agree.
Story continues:http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/05/13/farting-boys-school-bus-suspended_n_861650.html
In case you're just getting wind of this story, 13-year-old Anthony Nichols and a classmate faced a one-day suspension from Canal Winchester Middle School in Ohio last Friday after their bus driver reported the boys for passing gas on the bus.
Nichols' father, James, didn't deny the boy was a repeat offender when it comes to passing gas, sometimes to make the sort of joke that boys of that age will make. But he's fuming that school officials have described the impolite act as an obscene gesture, as if he and his friend had flipped someone off.
Now the tale of flatulence and punishment, first reported by the Columbus Dispatch, is making more than a little squeak, garnering national attention from CBS News, Gawker and the New York Daily News, even scoring a retweet from Sports Illustrated's Peter King, who let his 550,000 Twitter followers know, I have no comment.
According to James Nichols, his son actually turned himself in, thinking that honesty would exempt him from punishment.
Where is the logic? he asked AOL Weird News. I guess it is, 'Don't create disturbances on the bus,' but we go back again and whose fault was it that there was commotion? The person who farted or the people who reacted to it?
Parenting and disciplinary experts tend to agree.
Story continues:http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/05/13/farting-boys-school-bus-suspended_n_861650.html
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