And the word in question is


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MEEP.


http://www2.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/artic...rd_meep/109167/

What.

It should have been NI.

Meep...myt god. The disrespect they give that one teacher. It's just...unbearable.

Ironbite-someone needs to tell the teacher to lighten up.

There must be something weird about freshman biology teachers... my freshman biology teacher was too incompetent to keep order too.

Oh jesus christ.

That's my hometown... and my high school.

I'm ashamed.

I am curious who the teacher is however. SNOOPING POWERS ACTIVATE!!!!


ps- Danvers really is going south...

ah meep *this user has been suspended*

THAT'S NOT EVEN A REAL WORD.

This whomps.

Well. That's the stupidest thing I've heard all day.

It was probably becoming very disruptive in the school. And maybe the kid was being a douche about it. We don't have enough information to overreact.

If the Teacher is revealed to be Wile E. Coyote, I will laugh so hard...

Dammit, I wanted to do that!

So you maybe, I dunno, enact discipline and punish disruptive behavior in general instead of banning something specific completely no matter the context? Just sayin'...

It's over reacting in a BIG way.

MEEP

Highlights include:

Murray called every student's home with an automated message and sent out a mass email banning the word from school.

"Please be advised that any student who has the letters 'meep' on their clothing or uses the words verbally will face suspension from school...the police are monitoring this situation as well."

Meeping Meepers! They should go Meep themselves.

Gotta love people like that.

Really? Over a harmless word? What a meeping group of meeps. People in this meeping world really need to learn to take a meeping joke. They can go take their little suspensions and cram it up their meeps. If it's because of a single student, discipline the student, not the rest of the student body. Classic over-reaction that is becoming WAY too meeping common these days

*waits to be banned from the message board*

Maybe meep needs to replace hug for a bit?

Zort!

are you flargin' shmorkin' me?

holy shmagnatz!

Is it?

What a silly rule, really.


NOSTALGIA BOMB AAAAAAGH. *Crash*

lol

I saw that episode just the other day.

AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand teufel beat me to it. Damn.

I generally have a problem with schools banning swear words, so you guess how I feel on this one.

The problem here is an overreaction to the word. The word itself just means hello. What they needed to do was differentiate between its uses. Let's take it a bit more literally and say that everyone was saying hello instead of meep. Those students who said hello in a loud irritating manner to piss off the douchebag biology teacher, sure send them home. HOwever, everyone else who just says hello in a normal fashion, then they're okay. Now substitute meep back in and we have a rational situation.

But that just doesn't freaking happen in high school. High schools overreact to EVERYTHING.

............Meep means hello?

Ironbite-in what world?

The one the Muppets live in, for one.

Splunge!

If you watch the video in the article, the kid that started it said it turned into a greeting, hence 'hello.'

The way so many of these parents are just now suddenly expecting that because the schools has banned a nonsense word that it's actually *wrong* for their kids to say it is just...I mean you talk about people being sheep, and then there's actual sheep! Holy crap these people are stupid.

Also, in before ACLU.

damn...thats some crazy stuffs..

i think the kids should replace meep with Smurf.

A guy at my highschool said smurf all the time.
It was beetlejuice. I'm not kidding.

You went to high school with Beetlejuice?

my freshman biology teacher totaled his motorcycle, got REALLY jacked up and wasn't able to use his hand for a while cause one of his nerves were destroyed.



i'll have to agree with that.. sounds like something my younger brother would do.

I'm embarrassed to be part of humanity.

Yes.
I wish somebody had a picture of him, but that was a few years before facebook.
He looked just like Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice. He didn't even need makeup.
The first time I saw him, I thought he was some old man that had dropped out and was going back to get his highschool diploma. As it turns out, he was only one year older than me.
He was crazy too.

You would hear stories in the surrounding cities about a crazy man that looked like Beetlejuice. Those that knew him would respond "It was Beetlejuice."

The Roadrunner was not welcome in this community.

"Mothermeeper" is kind of awkward.

Try being a product of that retarded school... and town. I think I need to drown myself in a puddle. Excuse me.

*blub blub blub*

* SCRUB SCRUB SCRUB *

That's not necessary --Daytonus

The fact that the students blame it all on a biology teacher that got offended. What about the principle and everyone else that has allowed it to go overboard. Knowing kids will push buttons if given the chance the correct thing to of done in my eyes would of been to tell the teacher to let it go. I'm sure there were kids who were using the term in more ways than as a greeting (kind of like hug). Or if they wanted to enforce some kind of punishment then there is always d-hall or in school suspension why go so extreme though. I understand that the law about freedom of speech goes two ways. You can say anything you want until it falls upon ears that get offended then the speaker is offending the listeners rights. But at least with d-hall and in school suspension the kids at least continue to get an education instead of a day or two off.

It sounds like the teacher was just acting out against the oppressive reign of the "teen-agers" and their gang language.

They should replace it with "NANU-NANU"

Its the deplorable word!

The only possible solution is, whenever this douche goes out in public, to have people nearby meeping. Eating at a restaurant? make sure you've got a table or two staffed with meepers. Grocery shopping? keep the next aisle or so well meeped. In a line at the bank? It's time to meep the national anthem to themselves.

I'm sorry, but this is just rediculously stupid. Yes, technically the school has the right to 'ban' words, but it's one of those powers that you just don't use without good reason. (the last good reason I recall from my school days was the word 'blunt' because of it's drug connotations)

The principle and teachers are the adults here. Instead of coming down heavy handed, they need to learn to suck it up and deal with being annoyed. they're teaching high schoolers for Christsake. That's what they do, they annoy adults. They should have picked their battles a little more carefully here.

Were I a parent whose child was suspended, I'd be in that principle's office first thing, ripping them a new one for not only enforcing such a petty, arbitrary, bulljive rule, but actually allowing said rule to make it onto the books. I don't give a rats ass that you're the principle and you're in charge, use your hugging discretion and yank your head from your ass.


Absolutely rediculous. Stop being stupid, damnit.

What if you were a teacher and a kid said "MEEP YOU!" real loud when they were pissed at you for some reason or another?

The kid can try and pass it off as, "it's a nonsense word and it doesn't mean anything. What are you mad for? You can't do anything to me because the word doesn't mean anything."

But the disrespect would clearly be there, and if the kid was using it as a replacement for the f-word or something else confrontational, then you would have a problem as a teacher. But taking this story to the disciplinarians would be difficult, as it is just so ridiculous when you explain it afterwards. Hell, people on this thread have started using it to replace swear words, so what makes you think the kids didn't do the same thing to try and get around the swearing rules of the school.

This is just one possibility.

Or maybe the kids already thought the science teacher reminded them of Beaker, and they have been making fun of him like that for months (or even years) saying "meep" when his back is turned in class or when they walk by his classroom. Seriously disruptive harassment. But when they get in trouble they just say, "oh, I got it from the road runner, not the Muppet, and I don't know what you are talking about." High School kids can be amazing liars and manipulators, let's not forget that.

Again, only another possibility.

It's all very anecdotal. None of us were there to see how it was really being used or how it really started, and I doubt any of the kids told the news reporter what really happened. There's even one kid claiming he was the guy who started it all. I guess if you can't be famous....

Anyway, I doubt the faculty is overreacting. Handling the situation poorly, perhaps, but I bet it turned into a really bad trend pretty quickly. Once the kids figured out how much they could use it to misbehave, it probably turned into a monster, and now the faculty is trying to play catch-up.

I'm just saying maybe we should relax and think about the cess-pool that is high school.

Then you discipline the kids when they're being disruptive or harassing someone, not because they're saying a particular word.