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Dad Makes School Skipper Hold Sign On Corner
The Indy Channel ^ | April 21, 2006 | IBS

Posted on 04/21/2006 7:56:55 AM PDT by Abathar

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A girl who skipped school Thursday received an unusual punishment from her father.

When Don Wesselman found out his daughter, Samantha, had skipped her freshman classes at Bonner Springs High School to hang out with friends, he gave her two choices.

"I told her she could either get disciplinary actions at home, or she could go up the street and hold a sign for 30 minutes," Wesselman told KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Mo.

She chose told hold up the sign, which read: "I skipped school so I don't have to learn so my Dad made me this sign so I can be ready for the future. God Bless."

Motorists and passers-by saw her holding up the sign.

The girl received some sympathetic looks, but others cheered the father's discipline.

"Outstanding -- that's the only thing I can say about that," a bystander said.

"I feel the parents don't do enough of that. I'm raised the old world way, and kids have got to learn there are rules and regulations," a passer-by said.

"I bet she won't do it again because that's embarrassing. I guarantee you that daughter won't do that again -- to see everybody knowing that you skipped school -- she won't do that again," a witness said.

"I think I put my foot down and she isn't going to do it again," Wesselman said.

After her 30 minutes were up, Samantha handed over the sign to her father, who said they'd be having a conversation later over why she skipped school.

Wesselman said he got the idea for the sign from another parent in New York who did something similar a few years ago.


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Good for him, some kids respond better to shaming than any other punishment. My kid would rather walk across broken glass barefoot than have to do something like this, just the threat of doing this is enough to drive the message home.

1 posted on 04/21/2006 7:56:57 AM PDT by Abathar
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To: Abathar

Praises for this father. I am just excited that she has a father in the home who obviously loves her. She is already two steps ahead of many, many chidren.


2 posted on 04/21/2006 7:59:08 AM PDT by yellowdoghunter (I sometimes only vote for Republicans because they are not Democrats....by Dr. Thomas Sowell)
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Only 30 minutes!!!

What a softie.


3 posted on 04/21/2006 7:59:31 AM PDT by proudpapa (of three.)
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To: Abathar

I'm sure the ACLU / Human Rights Intl. / ad nauseam will find something to whine about this common-sense approach. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if they sued the father.


4 posted on 04/21/2006 7:59:38 AM PDT by kromike
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To: Abathar

Great. Would setting up Stocks with a permanent sign be too over-the-top?


5 posted on 04/21/2006 7:59:41 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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I'll bet she'll be a lot more careful not to get caught next time.


6 posted on 04/21/2006 8:00:53 AM PDT by flada (Posting in a manner reminiscent of Jen-gis Kahn.)
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To: Abathar

I'm not sure. Isn't the shame of disappointing the father enough? Does she need to be publicly humiliated? It seems to me likely that the child will remember this as her father's intentional humiliation of her, rather than her humiliation of herself. (But the father knows her better than I do, so I guess I shouldn't judge.)


7 posted on 04/21/2006 8:02:04 AM PDT by dinoparty
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Back in my day, we had bigger signs with heavier... and it rained all... cold and snowy... uphill... tornado even...


8 posted on 04/21/2006 8:02:57 AM PDT by steveyp
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LOL! It would have been a few hours if it was my kid...


9 posted on 04/21/2006 8:04:04 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
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Back in my day, we had bigger signs with heavier... and it rained all... cold and snowy... uphill... tornado even...

LOL!!! Very, very funny! Classic!

10 posted on 04/21/2006 8:04:24 AM PDT by yellowdoghunter (I sometimes only vote for Republicans because they are not Democrats....by Dr. Thomas Sowell)
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Excellent. This MAN is a good father and frankly she is a good daughter. All kids make foolish choices at times, but she made a wise choice for the sign.

I guarantee any children she may have will also learn this lesson.


11 posted on 04/21/2006 8:04:46 AM PDT by MadeInAmerica (- If ILLEGAL means Undocumented - Then Breaking and Entering means Unannounced Visit)
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Back in my day, we had bigger signs with heavier... and it rained all... cold and snowy... uphill... tornado even...

Yeah, but I bet you were dressed. We didn't even have clothes.

12 posted on 04/21/2006 8:05:31 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
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I skipped school and now have to hold a sign showing my propensity towards run-on sentences. :( LOL.


13 posted on 04/21/2006 8:05:38 AM PDT by jdm (Screaming ALREADY POSTED! since 2004)
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To: steveyp
Back in my day, we had bigger signs with heavier... and it rained all... cold and snowy... uphill... tornado even...

That's great, but you forgot the part about having to walk 6 miles to carry them.

14 posted on 04/21/2006 8:06:12 AM PDT by Luke Skyfreeper
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I ditched school a few times my senior year in high school. Trouble was, I'd forgotten the "1st law of life in a small town for adolescents" - everybody, including teachers and principals, know your parents.

I'm still on restriction, a fact my 82-year-old father reminded me of when I turned 50 last summer. ;)

15 posted on 04/21/2006 8:06:27 AM PDT by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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I thought you were talking about this Skipper:


16 posted on 04/21/2006 8:10:58 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "What's the point of Spiderman underwear if you can't show them")
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To: theDentist
Would setting up Stocks with a permanent sign be too over-the-top?

It worked for the Colonials.

This father deserves plaudits for actually carrying through with the punishment.

Skipped school to hang out? My gosh.

17 posted on 04/21/2006 8:12:11 AM PDT by Ole Okie
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Oops, I missed the part about her having a choice. The sign was her choice (over private punishment). In that light, the father's actions seem more admirable to me.


18 posted on 04/21/2006 8:14:42 AM PDT by dinoparty
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Oops, I missed the part about her having a choice. The sign was her choice (over private punishment). In that light, the father's actions seem more admirable to me.


19 posted on 04/21/2006 8:15:02 AM PDT by dinoparty
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"I skipped school and now have to hold a sign showing my propensity towards run-on sentences."

LOL that is the first thing I thought of - her father should be very concerned with her grammar! My parents are so anal, they would have revised the sign before I stepped outside. I swear, mom will be correcting me on my deathbed.
20 posted on 04/21/2006 8:15:09 AM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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