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Some of you might have seen this last week, but a mom in Georgia was arrested after she made her son kill his pet hamster as a punishment for bad grades
If that's not bad enough, she made him kill it with a hammer.
Here is the story from the Associated Press.
Is this the wildest punishment you've heard for bad grades? Or does anyone have a story that can top this one?
Plantersville fifth-grader Aliyah Lee won Tuesday's Lee County spelling bee at the Hancock Leadership Center. After eight rounds and 32 words, the winning word was "competitive."
Nettleton's Brittany Hieb was second and Nettleton's Trey O'Neal was third.
Aliyah will advance to the MidSouth Spelling Bee in Memphis in March. The winner of that competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. in May.
See tomorrow's Journal for more about Tuesday's bee.
I'm working on a story package about the Tupelo Public School District computer initiative. Teachers have begun receiving their new computers and high school seniors will get theirs ini February.
One of the goals of the package is to answer questions about the initiative. Are there any specific questions you'd like to see me address. Please post them below or email me at: chris.kieffer@djournal.com.
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Chris
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You seem to think this was punitive.
Everything we do in like has "consequences" attached to them.
Bad grades -> lose the rat ...
Now ... I am not cruel to animals - and I do not encourage my children to be cruel to anything. And, I tend to give the mother the benefit of the doubt.
Bad grades = not taking care of his rat ... both things could have been happening. So what does a parent do with a child who doesn't care?
It is a shame for a mother to have to dole out such discipline anyway. IMO, it would be better coming from a father.