Yawning will not be tolerated

Apparently it's a policy in our local schools to punish perpetrators of serious crimes such as this.

A certain student at a certain area school who just happens to be the child of a certain CNVEP employee was busted yesterday for brazenly sucking in oxygen during class. It seems that this kind of selfish, uh... breathing is totally inappropriate for the classroom setting.

"Bad manners," she was told. "It's rude to the teacher."

We have a slighlty different view.

(hmm. I'm not feeling totally nonviolent at the moment. This yawning thing has me in a tizzy. I need to go wash my face.)

In any case, the child in question was forced to write an essay about "manners". When she turned it in late, she was told that it had to double in length.

Not only that, but she was forced to sit in classrooms all day long in horrifically boring classes without yawning.

Good thing she didn't fart.