Someone forwarded me a bunch of stories they saw online, about things happening at schools.

One had a substitute teacher searching kids for $5 in an envelope that was stolen from her desk. Apparently, you can't search kids.

A few parents are upset.

My question is this. What teacher wouldn't be smart enough to know that was going to be a problem? My second question is...what idiotic parent would be mad their child got searched? Now, if it was one kid that got searched, because the teacher "thought" he/she was guilty, that's one thing. But seriously, what parent would have a problem being told "All the kids had to take off their shoes, and turn their pockets inside out, so we could find this envelope with money." It wasn't like how they are searched when they arrive at prison.

Now, if one kid had a fiver on him, and the teacher was "guessing" it was the stolen loot...then you have a problem. These are parents that just want to raise their kids to be crappy members of society.

And on a different school subject....a woman is suing because her kid was suspended, for having a mohawk. But, they warned her, it's a distracting in the 6-year-olds class. The mom didn't care. Another warning was issued, and a third. The mom re-cut the hair, the same way.

Now she's suing. But ya know what? Someone should tackle her, and give her a mohawk. How hard is it for this idiotic parent, to stop thinking like some 60s hippie singing David Crosby's "I Just Cut My Hair," or whatever that song was.

I used to wear Doors t-shirts to practice. It caused some ribbing from the other players, but once we started running laps, that stopped. If the coach had told me not to wear them, I would've respected it. Bill Walton once told me Coach Wooden, at UCLA, told him to cut his hair or he wouldn't be playing basketball. Walton, a big deadhead, said "How does having long hair affect how I play basketball?" Wooden said something along the lines of, "Because you'll be sitting the bench of it's still long tomorrow."

He got it cut. But boy, check out his pictures with the Portland Trailblazers.

Anyway...I think the school should've talked with this woman, to see where her head was at. And, to see if they could talk some sense in to her. To ask her how she'd handle it if kids made fun of her kid. Or, what she would do as a teacher, if she saw kids talking about it, during class. Sometimes, you have to walk idiots thru situations, for them to see the other side.