Knox County Times:
  • It seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are . . . making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus.

    According to this week's Fire Cracker school newsletter though, the joke's on the boys as the penalty for "intentional farting" is now a detention.

    "Strange, but true, thanks to a bunch of 8th grade boys, intentional farting has been banned from CRMS," the newsletter said. "It started out as a funny joke and eventually turned into a game. This is the first rule at CRMS that prevents the use of natural bodily functions. The penalty for intentional farting is a detention, so keep it to yourself!"


This is the only school I've ever heard of where the students are discouraged from trying to pass.