There is a huge unanswered question in the story I'm about to tell you, But first the facts as we know them. Lynda Hampton is a preschool teacher in the Waco Independent Public School District. She saw that one of her young students was in distress. The little boy had stuffed so much pizza into his mouth and began to choke. So Miss Hampton ran to the child and performed a finger sweep. Not for those of you in real Lynda,
finger sweep isn't what you think it is. The teacher cleared out the boy's mouth with her finger, pulling out a gob of pizza. The boy was saved. It was a job well done. But a year later, state regulators reviewing the situation moved to take away Lynda Hampton's teaching license. Apparently, a classroom aid had a different perspective. She claimed a teacher's finger sweep was just a mean spirited attempt to deprive the five year old of his public school breakfast.
Yet another adult in the classroom backed Miss Hampton's account, but state investigators never bothered to speak with her. Now, thankfully for Lynda Hampton, Robert Mueller wasn't called in. She might be still under investigation. Finally, last week, after two years, she prevailed. When the aide admitted the boy had indeed
been in distress. The judge tossed the case, which brings us to the big unanswered question, Since when do preschool kids get taxpayers supplied pizza for breakfast, for crying out loud to heck with the finger sweep? When do we start doing this