“She’s not being punished because she got into a fight or anything like that,” her mother Danielle Olmstead told Fox 4 News. “She’s getting punished because she had an overdue library book. For reading. It’s ridiculous."
What the hell, Florida? This is the state that hosts cannibal joggers, voting issues and whatnot, you are not supposed to be teaching your children responsibility and education. What's next? Required reading? Spelling bees? If this continues you might just raise a generation of Floridians that think before they act and believe there are real consequences to action. We can not have that! The rest of the nation needs you to be the out of control little brother that makes us all think, "Well, at least we have jobs." Think about how you are making the rest of us feel, Florida. You just think about that.
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