There was a case earlier this month that really exemplified what if means to be a stupid person. It was the case of a principal who wrote a letter in which he actually called some of the students at his school "stupid". Now, the principal took a lot of flak for this – with good reason, of course. It’s absolutely inappropriate for the leader of a school to be calling children stupid. Plus it’s a really dumb move on his part to put that particular thought of his on to paper.

But it’s not just the principal who was stupid in this case. The real stupidity came from a teacher. The teacher apparently didn’t realize that this letter from the principal was supposed to be kept in-house. She thought it was one of those letters that she was supposed to photocopy for the parents of her students. Yes, the teacher sent home a letter in which the principal was calling their children stupid.

We’d like to believe that the teacher was being smart. We’d like to believe that she was just pretending to be so dumb for the pure purpose of making sure that the parents saw the principal’s stupid action and did something about it. But all accounts seem to indicate that this was actually just a stupid move on the part of the teacher and not some witty way of getting the boss in trouble.

Incidentally, this happened in Arizona. This state is consistently ranked among the worst in education based on reports such as the Nation’s Report Card. Perhaps it’s not the kids who are stupid in this state; perhaps it’s their educators. Now there’s a thought.

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