Brice, Brice, Brice, The point is, life is not fair. I don't for a moment fool my children that it is. I teach them that there are always consequences to our actions. Some good, some bad, some unpredictable. I NEVER said it was OK for the school to punish folks for good deeds, nor did I say it wasn't. Not that I'm that wishy-washy, but the school does it's thing and I do mine. When they adopt a narrow minded policy as in the case you point out, then they will do just what happened. There are lots of unfair rules in the world. We have to make decisions based on what we think is best. Sometimes that gets us a label of rebel, and sometimes it gets us a label of patriot. That's what I teach. Blessings! Dave -------------- Dave Dave Dave - Do I detect just a hint of a condescending tone in your voice. Hard to do in written statements, so maybe I am jsut imagining things. I am sure it would be a lot more work to actually fix what is wrong, than to just say 'life is not fair'. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *