THE EDITOR, Sir:THE STUDENT(S) at Immaculate High School who set out to
grossly disrespect their teacher by spitting in her water and then watching with the rest of the class as she drank it, are now succeeding in involving the entire school in the controversy over punishment. Teachers, understandably upset, are not teaching. They may well feel that the students, if allowed to return to school after a mere suspension, can continue to gloat while the teacher a human with human feelings is required to teach them.
Their presence, in that context, also feeds the feeling that some of us are much more equal than others. Yet expulsion appears too big a punishment. Certainly the school board appears unwilling to swallow it.
It seems to me that the largest lesson to be drawn is a simple one that people must treat others as they would want to be treated. So perhaps, gross as it seems, what these young people should be required to do is to have their own prank played back on
themselves.
Let them each be required to drink a bottle of water which the teacher in question has been allowed to season with her spit. Let the sauce for the goose, so to speak, be publicly acknowledged as being sauce for the gander and let us get on with the business of education.
I am, etc.,
'Tired of it now'
