{{{{{{Sean}}}}}}

Gris, totally a teaching moment, and I'm so sorry that the situation arose.

I would boo Bush. I would boo Pol Pot. I would boo Cheney. I totally agree with Typo Boy, and I feel no compunction about attempting to shame those kinds of people. (Not that I think it would do any good.)

{{{Jessica}}}

{{{Sean}}} Hang in there.

Still no news. I even stopped to see the department secretary. She says that mine aren't in yet. EVIL.

Ginger lives in Hell, Michigan.

Typo Boy, I would agree that Bush is deserving of social disapproval, but I still think I'm with Gris in feeling uncomfortable with booing. For one thing, it's too easy. Even if deserved.

I too am against booing. I won't even do it at sporting events. My brothers make fun of me for that.

Is it the booing in particular? What if you were at a Bush speech and instead of booing the crowd turned their backs to him?

{{Sean}}

I could never boo anybody, no matter how much I dislike them, their decisions, their policies, their actions. I could boo a statement, at a speech for example. But not the person in general.

I'm more of a hisser.

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I too am against booing. I won't even do it at sporting events. My brothers make fun of me for that.

I think booing at sporting events is bad sportsmanship.

There's, again, something a little too easy about joining in a mass shunning. Or it may just be that my long history of rooting for the underdog actually made me nearly feel SORRY for Bush, and I deeply resent that.

I have enjoyed booing at places where it's encouraged- like a puppet show. I can't think of any other situation where I've actually booed. I think the closest I get is saying "that is so not cool" from time to time but usually out of earshot of the person who is being uncool.

for some reason I say "amy-chi". Not sure why. I hadn't realized I was adding a vowel where none existed until y'all started talking about it.

Honestly -- and bear in mind that I'm not a teacher -- I think that 14- to 16-year-olds who react with glee upon hearing that an administrator/somewhat draconian dean/principal was going to be out for the day are just acting like normal 14- to -16-year-olds.

Yeah. In middle school (the last time we had that sort of assembly) if someone had said the principal was out we would have cheered and thought it was funny as hell. And he was a good guy, most people like him.

In our next class the teachers would have scolded us and we all would have rolled our eyes and given that mumbled group apology thing. We probably would have forgotten all about it until the scolding, actually.

My brother boos frequently. Mostly when he gets bad news from someone or if he doesn't approve of a plan or course of action. It's actually become his thing to boo at people. And, I have to admit, it's contagious. Both my sister, her best friend, and I boo at things we don't like. Like, "Aimee, you have to work overtime." "BOOO!"