So, he is on paid administrative leave. Where I’m from, we call that vacation.
They can’t just up and fire him, but they did get him away from impressionable students.
What more would you have, immediate hanging and gibbeting along the King’s highway?
Well, I’m not sure that senior high = impressionable kids who need protection. I’m just awe-struck that he gets the summer off, and now he gets a paid vacation. If Alabama’s teachers’ union is anything like Pennsylvania’s, I am sure he will be back to work soon.
To a degree, of course, but some people zero in on an entirely irrelevant aspect–most of the people in the “hood” share a skin color, so it MUST be the SKIN COLOR! (It’s the CANS! He hates these CANS!)
Behavior is not tied to skin color. When you conflate one with the other, you’re not talking about what’s really going on.
In any case, you’re trying to make it sound like I’m saying that every single individual in Alabama is a redneck retard. My favorite aunt lived in Alabama most of her life, until she died a few years ago. I spent more than one summer there with her.
But it’s not at all a stretch to say the majority, collective “personality” of Alabama, as a cultural entity, is–by choice, which is the main point–small minded, backwards thinking, and above all racist.
You so funny.
Big fucking deal. The teacher plays too many first person shooters and thinks about shooting things. Unprofessional sure, but I don’t get any outrage at this. Especially the “he must be a racist!” The article doesn’t he say he used Obama as an example.
I so feel for this guy. When you’re in the groove of lecture and caught up with getting the kids interest and keeping it, it’s easy for incredibly stupid things to fall out of your mouth. 95% of the time, it flies harmlessly over the kids’ heads. The other 5% gives me nightmares.
Once, during President Bush’s term, I found myself trying to explain the limitations of the First Amendment to my class. You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater, you can’t defame someone character, you can’t advocate the violent overthrow of the government, and you can’t state you’re going to assassinate the President. Next thing I know, I have a classroom full of eighth graders all jumping up and down, declaring they’re going to take turns popping caps in the President. Loudly declaring. Took me two or three minutes to restore order (I mean, they really liked the idea), and telling them that such statements were ill-advised and illegal only got me accusations of voting Republican. :rolleyes:
If another teacher or administrator had walked in at that moment and decided to make a fuss, I’d have been dead meat.
I lost control of a Unitarian Sunday School class of fifth graders who were supposed to be talking about non-violent resistance - you know - boycotts, sit ins, marches… pipe bombs.
Then I made it worse by feeling the need to tell them that pipe bombs were highly dangerous because gun powder could get in the threads and ignite when you were screwing the cap on.
So I’m the Unitarian Sunday School teacher who taught fifth graders how to make pipe bombs.
Is that you, Sister Hand Grenade of Enlightened Compassion? Remember, the first rule of the Unitarian Jihad is to never talk about the Unitarian Jihad.
Yeah, 'cause I’m sure they couldn’t figure out for themselves that something called a “pipe bomb” involved putting explosive material inside a pipe.
Well, I was way past fifth grade before it would have occurred to me that bomb-grade explosive would not require a spark of some sort, and that it could be set off by tightening the cap on it.
Yup.
Well, I probably should have shut down the conversation before telling them to make sure the threads were clean on the pipe so they didn’t hurt themselves :smack: That’s where I crossed the line (and frankly, that’s where fifth grade boys are going to screw up a pipe bomb). I should have just said “that is an example of violent resistance, we are talking about non-violent resistance…”
Ameri-cans?
Can I borrow your brush? I want to paint my whole house with one stroke.
Outside of the headlines, I don’t see anything to suggest that President Obama was mentioned at all.
Given that there was a sniper game to try and repeat the JFK shot, I’d say that the idea of sniping presidents is a sufficiently common meme to have it rise to your mind when trying to think of geometrical math of straight lines and angles. I’d vote that whoever told on the teacher was probably overly sensitive. Heck, I’d use something like that, as a teacher, to get kids attention as something silly and morbid.
It’s a reference to The Jerk.
Sister Dangerosa is hereby remanded to the Sunday Flowers and Banners committee.
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I’m not disagreeing with this, but does anyone have a cite that Huntsville actually has the most PhDs per capita? I’m curious because I’ve heard this about San Diego, Boulder, Oak Ridge, Ann Arbor, etc. and can’t find a definitive answer on the interweb (although I haven’t, you know, looked a whole lot).
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And that’s one move I actually watched. sigh
I would have guessed Drop Dead Gorgeous. (“Amer, I Can!”)
I though everyone knew that Connecticut’s for fucking.
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