Enquirer says "farted"

It's always a barrel of baste when a regular newspaper like the Cincinnati Enquirer says "farted."

I read with interest an Enquirer piece about how a Cincinnati high school keeps suspending students for just about any minor infraction imaginable. I've covered the failures of "zero tolerance" and the school-to-prison pipeline for years. You already know America's schools have become a police state.

What caught my eye was this sentence in the article: "In another case, a senior at West was suspended for five days for overreacting when another student farted." The Enquirer didn't say the student "passed gas" or "broke wind." The newspaper said the student "farted."

Here's the article...

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/education/2017/09/19/why-does-west-high-kick-out-so-many-kids/676319001