Hearsay: An important part of editorials in an ideal state
Give the Chronicle editorial board credit for consistently finding new ways to surprise.
Friday, the editorialists came out strongly against zero-tolerance policies, which they criticized as driving the punishment in the case of a student who was suspended for talking on his cell phone with his mother (a soldier stationed in Iraq), and in the case of a boorish college student who was arrested for disorderly conduct for disrupting a guest speaker at the University of Texas.
The editorial idealists offer up this bit of reasoning in support of their complaint about the arrest:
The student, Ajai Raj, said he asked the police officers why they were arresting him and, according to Raj, the officers said they didn't know.
That's known as hearsay. We were not aware that hearsay was a constituent part of editorials in an ideal state, but since it's not the first time we've pointed out, I suppose we're learning more and more about this ideal state.
We do agree with the editorialists about the absence of common sense in the suspension. However, we are still trying to find the common sense in equating these two instances.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/15/05 04:08 PM | Print |
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