Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
- IF WE MUST PUNISH people for
consensual crimes, I suggest an alternate method.
- Here's the idea, as reported in
the 1993 edition of the World Almanac and Book of Facts:
Chicago teacher
Bruce Janu deals with kids who are late to
his class or talk out of turn by sentencing
them to the Frank Sinatra Detention Club.
Students are forced to listen to tapes of
"My Way," "Love and Marriage,"
and other Sinatra classics. There is no
talking and no homework.
The students
"just hate it," Janu says. "I
get a grimace, like, `I can't believe I'm
listening to this, something my parents and
grandparents listened to.' I get a lot of
rolls of the eyes." Janu says the kids
can sing along, but no one has.
A senior got two
"Franks" in a day—60 whole
minutes of Sinatra. "I just got to where
I couldn't stand it," he said.
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