This really wrinkles one’s nose.
A high school in Bourne, Mass. wants its students to stop using deodorants, body sprays, cologne and other fragrances that may trigger asthma attacks and headaches.
Public schools, mind you, no longer mandate that students take showers after gym classes. Body odor, now an elective, soon may become a requirement if this idiocy catches on.
Has everyone forgotten the smell of teen spirit emerging from newly matured hormonal glands?
School administrators sitting in air-conditioned offices may escape most of the fouled atmospheres, but other staff members and students won’t.
And who’s to say that rampant B.O. won’t trigger even more asthma attacks and headaches—not to mention nausea?
South Park’s Dog Poo and Pig Pen of Peanuts must be rejoicing. (16 APRIL 2006)
