Principal bans ‘meep’—and boy is Road Runner pissed! Find out why a Massachusetts principal bans ‘meep,’ and get the definition here.
No, this isn’t a satirical piece. The word is actually banned from Danvers High School is Massachusetts. Principal Thomas Murray isn’t letting his students outwit him on this one. After making several ‘reasonable requests,’ the students wouldn’t relent, so he opted for an out and out ban. So what’s the big meepin’ deal?
The kids have apparently been using it as an inside joke at the school for a while now. They would just blurt it out during class to get a laugh, which of course disrupts the flow of learning. But it seems there was some even more nefarious meeping taking place online.
The Princi-PAL says the students were planning some sort of coordinated meepage using Facebook. What exactly they were organizing has yet to be revealed. Even better, students claim they’re not even sure what it means! The urban dictionary defines the term to mean ‘ouch,’ or ‘uh-oh.’
Some have compared it to the sound that the Muppet’s character Beaker makes. To me, it invokes the sound Road Runner would use to taunt Wile E. Coyote.
In lieu of the ban, parents received an automated phone call warning that the use or display of the word would lead to an automatic suspension. We’ll see if Murray’s efforts pay off, or if it only exacerbates the problem.
Personally, I think giving it this kind of attention is going to make it worse. From a kid’s perspective, it only makes it funnier if it irritates the authority figures. I can just picture students scribbling MEEP onto the walls of the school when no one is looking, or even jumping on the intercom during class: ‘meep meep.’ I have a feeling someone may unwittingly have it written on a piece of paper taped to their back—who knows?
What do you think will happen after the principal bans meep? Give us your thoughts in the comments section.