[PeterPrinciple]

Richardson, 24, who corresponded with Lund's students while he served in the Persian Gulf, said he is still perplexed about what happened. "I know the principal wasn't trying to sabotage everything," he said. "I don't know what she was thinking."


Yep, the principal left her thinking cap at home.

[AppyPappy]

Translation: She did not receive clearance from the DNC to allow the vistit.

[EmilyGeiger]

I know the principal wasn't trying to sabotage everything," he said. "I don't know what she was thinking."



That's the problem. She wasn't thinking. She was just stupid.

[lafroste]

I think this falls under the heading "The Banality of evil". Petty bureaucrats that do not have the wit to independantly analyze their decisions but instead follow the rule book with parrot like devotion and bandage wrapped vision are the enablers of oppression. Indeed, I think that oppression is not possible until the oppressor first constructs a system that allows dull-witted robots into positions of authority.

I've often thought that one solution to this problem is to require all PhD candidates to get through differential equations in college regardless of their major, just to prove that they are smart enough to be called a PhD.

[Redleg Duke]

Principal => Leftist

[tx_eggman]

Yep, the principal left her thinking cap at home

She couldn't get her head up her butt without taking it off

[HitmanLV]

Richardson...said he is still perplexed about what happened. "I know the principal wasn't trying to sabotage everything," he said. "I don't know what she was thinking."

I have an idea. It's one of the things I have witnessed in over the course of my life, which dovetails a bit with the 'Peter Principle,' in fact.

That is, many people (maybe even most) have no idea how to wisely exert influence and power, and when they are given even a little bit of power, they tend to use it poorly. Give an inch and they take a mile - people tend to not know when to stop, and tend to show amazingly poor judgment in deciding what battles to fight.

This situation smells like an inept, small administrator showing characteristic poor judgment. I've seen it 10,000 times.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Yep, the principal left her thinking cap at home.

You mean the principal's left thinking.