The ban was made on behalf of a student with violent allergies to nuts and their relatives, inducing a new school menu which includes chicken nuggets, buttered rice, and chilled beets. Yummy.
Under this policy, kids who take offensive foods to school are required to eat in a different section of the building and to wash their hands and face after. On top of that, a reminder (gasp) is sent home to their parents.
Nut Free Schools: Remove the fruits and the flakes too
Parents don’t like the rule, what do kids eat besides peanut butter and fluff? Doing away with tacos, burritos, peanuts, and whole apples leaves very little on the list. Many parents filed complaints, the school receiving several daily. Some parents said it was “communistic” and “socialistic” for everyone to be affected by one child. The school denied this and retorted that it was “…democracy at its height”.
Define “Democracy”
Hold on – am I missing something? Democracy is rule by the majority, right? In a school of several hundred students, one child, less than 1% of the group, is ruling. Which logically means that 1% is a majority. Right?
Wrong. Webster defines majority as “the greater number; more than half of a total”. Here’s where we have to do some math. Half of 100% is equal to 50%. More than that half is approximately 50.01%. Using this information, solve to determine whether or not 1% is larger than 50.01%. Using a calculator is recommended.
Answer: 1% is not a Majority
The conclusion provided by the school is false (that’s nothing new). Rule by 1% isn’t “democracy at its height”, or at any altitude.
Perhaps the ban, however, as inconvenient as it seems, isn’t really a bad thing. After all, there’s no reason schools must be ruled by democracy. The same thing that happens in this school, however, happens everyday in our country. Only 15% of Americans don’t believe in God, yet our country’s courts rule prayer in schools unconstitutional, abortion legal, and threaten to destroy marriage.
Yet our country is supposed to be ruled by a form of democracy, a form where “we elect the people that make the rules”, better know as a republic. Just like the school, however, many of our country’s policies are not truly being controlled by either the people, or those those elected. That is not how the founders intended it to be.
Before we see any great change in issues Americans care about the most, we must see a great change in the faces at the bench.
Right on! These people should learn math before they teach it!
“Democracy at it’s height”? Hah! Public schools probably don’t know the meaning of the word “democracy”. Me and God may make a majority, but me, myself, and I makes zip. Of course, me, myself, and I gets more respect than me and God.