This must be her favorite Peter Gabriel album.
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.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed ... proper grammar is important to her future as well.
A gesture of love, to be sure.
I hate punishing my Sons, but it must be done. It breaks my heart to hear them cry. If I don't now, the crying will be worse years down the road.
Good show!
I need to remember this one and have in the back pocket for my daughter, should the need ever arise.
Obviously, the girl skipped grammar class.
Boy, this is becoming a popular punishment. Remember the woman sitting by her son for hours while he did so, and the girl made to do this by her mother before that?
Don't forget - that's 6 miles, uphill, both ways. :=)
LMAO!
Not as much run-on sentence as excessive use of phrases starting with "so".
I think it's a great idea, too. I just wish Dad hadn't done such a run-on sentence!
The article (and the sign) say that DAD made the sign!
This must be her favorite Peter Gabriel album.
A little humility goes a long way in helping children learn about life and all of its' perils. Schoolskipper=sign holder. Good for Dad, and better for daughter.
Well, YEAH! You had to chisel them out of stone!
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Wow. Succinct.
That's a man who is in charge of his household. Good on him.
So the teachers announced that they would be looking at a movie or some such.
He saw no point to waste his day and told me so.
Point is he told me beforehand. Good boy, that.
I can hear him now:
Sigh..don't try to impress me with your privileged upbringing..we didn't have it so easy..we had to get up at 2am..eat a bag of coal for breakfast..put on glass shards for clothes..wrestle with killer bears just to get out of the house..stand in the middle of the street with our signs saying "HIT US FOR MONEY"..go home where our father would then sell our spines for his beer money..and then go to bed at 1:30am after our mother finished using our limp bodies as washrags..but you can't tell young people that nowadays..
How is she not going to get caught? I would be calling the school EVERY day to make sure she was present and in her seat.
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