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| School officials nix Binny egg drop: "Culturally insensitive" |
| 2001-10-23 |
Patricia Thomas, a physics teacher at Dixie Hollins High School in St. Petersburg, Fla., had an idea to inject some fun into a project studying (we guess) gravity: She spent $500 on a custom-made, plastic-coated 9-by-9-foot poster of Osama bin Laden with a bull's eye over his face. She was going to put the poster on the football field, then climb into a cherry-picker, which would hoist her 35 feet aloft, whereupon she would drop eggs on the terrorist mastermind. The St. Petersburg Times reports: District officials are cautioning that the egg drop project--dubbed "The Yolk's on Osama"--could be construed as culturally insensitive. Now, plans for the poster have been scrapped. . . . Ultimately, the decision to cancel or go forward with the idea is up to the high school, said Pinellas County school spokesman Ron Stone. He said Dixie Hollins contacted the district and asked for its opinion. "I reviewed it with a couple of people and I thought perhaps, especially with our emphasis on multicultural issues . . . that it would not be a good thing to do," Stone said. "Perhaps we could do something less controversial . . . maybe a poster that said terrorism." We have a better idea. How about a poster of a "culturally sensitive" school administrator? "Culturally insensitive:" How do they make two words that long into a single four-letter word? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |