GOVERNMENT IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR THE THINGS WE CHOOSE TO DO TOGETHER: Teen Girl Suspended for Days After Publicizing School’s Dirty Water Problem: ‘Inappropriate use of electronics’ for taking a picture of a safety hazard.

A senior at John Glenn High School in Westland, Michigan, was suspended for three days after she took a photo of the disgusting water in the girls’ restroom and posted it on Twitter.

The student, Hazel Juco, had aimed to call attention to the dirty water. But it’s against school rules to take pictures in bathrooms. . . .

It seems to me that school officials weren’t actually interested in enforcing sensible privacy rules—they wanted to punish a student for making them look bad, I suspect.

Thankfully, the district superintendent erased the suspension from Juco’s record and directed the school to figure out why the water was such an ugly shade of yellow. As it turns out, a corroded pipe needs replacing.

Too bad the school’s first impulse was to quash dissent, rather than fix a problem. But that’s what happens what you get when your schools are run by the government and thus shielded from market incentives.

Yep.