Mass. high school principal needs to shut the meep up
Back when I was a kid, you would have to kill somebody on campus before administrators would get police involved.
Now all you have to do is say the word “meep.”
It’s pretty meeped up, if you ask me.
The controversy comes to us from Danvers, Mass., whose history of persecution stems back to the Salem Witch Trials.
Danvers High School principal Thomas Murray banned the use of the word meep last week because he feared that students were planning a major disruption on school grounds using the word.
The word doesn’t mean anything but it can be substituted for profanity or just be used as a greeting, according to Urban Dictionary.
Can mean whatever you want it to mean, but the most popular uses are:
1. An exclamation akin to ‘ouch’ or ‘uh oh..’
2. Filling in the blanks where other (rude) words would go.
3. A greeting! I personally say meep instead of Hello…
4. A random expression of happiness used to fill gaps in conversation.
The ban of the word prompted New York attorney Theodora Michaels to send an email to Danver school administrators simply stating the word “meep” in the subject line.
She received a response from assistant principal Mark Strout informing her that her email had been forward to the Danver Police Department.
This is how she explains it on her blog:
It’s been a long time since I was in high school, but I still remember what it was like to be young, and chafing under what seemed like arbitrary and capricious rules set down by school authorities.
So in solidarity with the students of Danvers High, and on my own initiative, I took about five seconds and sent an email to Principal Thomas Murray ( murray@danvers.org ), Assistant Principal Mark Strout ( strout@danvers.org ), Assistant Principal Cornelia Varoudakis ( cvaroudakis@danvers.org ), and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lisa Dana ( dana@danvers.org ). All of these addresses are publicly available on the Danvers High School website.
My subject line said (in full), “meep.” The body said (in full), “Meep.”
Yesterday I received a reply email from Assistant Principal Mark Strout, which said (in full) “Your E-mail has been forwarded to the Danvers Police Department.”
No word yet whether they are going to extradite her to Massachusetts for her crime.
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Comments
The Assistant Principal seems almost as dumb as his boss.
Mine said: subject meep, body Meep, meep!
Maybe we will all end up it gitmo together.
I had three meeps in there.
Strouts wife is a well known meep. And thats putting it nicely. He's just fustrated cause she meeps behind his back.She loves to meep many different people. Ive never met such a meep.
I read the first article, and it doen’t seem to match your summary. According to the article, the students have already been using the word to disrupt class. Regardless, this is a classic case of a solution for the wrong problem. The problem is not the use of the word meep. It is the disruption of class in general. Prohibiting the word meep just invites the students to simply choose another word, for example ‘bork’.
Since America’s schools are just 12 year prisons where you get sentenced for being an age, I say this is just another example proving were a Stanford Prison Experiment nation. The few areas of freedom, they’re trying to place under control.
You know, it would take these hooked in brats about one day to change the word and tell the world electronically. It could be “peem” or anything else and then they could use it and not be illegal AND send a strong message to the world like “we are kids and we will find a way to do what we want anyway”, just like kids have done as long as there have been rules. Pissing off the hierarchy is a birthright AND a rite of passage (sort of a birth-rite of passage) – If you can’t beat ‘em, change the rules.
I wonder what would happen if you sent them an email with one word: Lincoln. Wouldn’t that cause a shakeup in the cericulam!?!
Or just someone could send them message like this: “fadshgsjkbfakl” or any other combinations of letters from pressing keys randomly!
I won’t post them directly, but it is trivial to find relevant email addresses with Google, should others, like me, feel like expressing their opinions on the meep.
Every time I read the meep meep part, I think of the roadrunner theme song…
I keep thinking of this “Your E-mail has been forwarded to the Danvers Police Department.”
What are they going to charge you with..
Conspiract to commit meep?
Meep and battery?
Attempted meep?
Contributing to the delinquency of a meep?
What?
Meep!
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Aside from the fact that this is a new level of severe mental retardation in someone of authority, I could really go for some hot meep, with a side of meep and a nice cold glass of meep.
Vote Mayan, for a new beginning.
Thought I’d share an excerpt of my email.
“To whom it may concern:
…
“MEEP MEEP!”
Courtesy of Beaker the Muppet and his friend Carlos.”
Sounds like the Principle is a meeping molester…
We got banned from saying facetious in art class. Didn’t stop us either, only made it more fun.
Don’t be niggardly in your future use of meep.
Me wonders what my alien friend meepzorp thinks about this hub-bub.
kids are retarded.
The people watching over them, however…
not so bright either.
Kids are idiots, they are supposed to be. The so-called ‘adults’ are morons.
I sent one with a few meeps in it and suggested if they can find me they can have a new witch hunt.
MEEP!
20 years ago when I was in Jr. High, the administration decided that since many students didn’t bring proper study materials into class, they would hand out red binders to all students, and require us to bring them to every class. Failure to comply resulted in discipline.
I covered mine entirely in white tape except for a cut out of a large, red star, with the following written boldly above, “Little Red Binders – the first step towards communism.”
Two decades later, and we are almost there.
I don’t even live in the U.S, but I sent him an email with a whole paragraph consisting of me copying “meep” and holding down the paste button on my keyboard xD
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