It is Wizardry! i know because after reading the quote in Revtim’s post, my eyes rolled so far up my head i needed pliers. 
Yay! HP reference ftw!
Fine. You’re not invited to the next OrlanDope.
It’s a funny story if you take his claim as being true, which is pretty obviously isn’t. From the story:
I’m guessing that, like a lot of dolts who get fired, Mr. Piculas would like you to think it was for something it wasn’t, and doesn’t want to mention any of the real reasons.
I’ve been a sub in Florida for two years now, and these are important things I’ve learned for survival: go strictly by the book. Be all business. Do not share anything personal about yourself and do not respond to personal questions or give your opinions on any topic but the subject being taught (and even then, steer clear of anything controversial). Don’t tell jokes. Don’t socialize with the students or try to be their “pal”. Do not try to be “cool” in any way. Anything you do that is not strictly “by the book” will come back to bite you.
I’ll one-up you. In addition to returning Florida to its wild state, I’ll give Texas back to Mexico.
And you don’t want to know what will happen to New Jersey!
It would suck to lose my home here in Florida, but it would be worth it to get rid of Texas ~and~ make all of the crazy people stay in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey and the other places that they originally came from. I’d support your candidacy or subscribe to your newsletter.
And what was it that bit YOU?
Well, at one high school, a kid asked me why I wasn’t married. I answered truthfully that I had never seen any marriage that looked like it was worth giving up my freedom for; and I jokingly referred to marriage as “a ball and chain”. Those comments got me banned from that high school.
Let’s be fair here. The witch-hunts of Europe were a product of the early modern period and not the so called dark ages. Let’s not give the dark ages a bad name!
Maybe for an encore he could saw it in half.
Nah. That would just double the stupidity.
Haha… this reminds me of an embarrassing incident that took place in college.
I had a math teacher who decided to do the day’s lesson plan in base 6, just for the hell of it. A lot of the students were totally unfamiliar with the concept so his examples were met with befuddled silence. When he started arriving at totally unexpected answers to simple arithmetic problems I decided it would be funny to stand up and shout “HE’S A WITCH!”
Laughing at my poor joke skillz, telling me to sit down and shut up, anything would have been preferable to the reaction that I got, which was none at all. It was as though I weren’t even in the room. My face has never been so red.
Maybe some of those students graduated and became school administrators.
Now that’s a little extreme…it’s still got Disney World and Cape Canaveral.
I humbly suggest merely dusting the rest of the state with Cobalt.
Sounds OK to me. I’d rather my kid have an educator than a “pal”.
Except the schools statement does sort of confirm that the teachers claim was true, he was fired for wizardry, just that that wasn’t the only reason:
Here’s another report that has a similar statement from the superintedent:
I haven’t seen any quote where a school official claims that an accusation of wizardry wasn’t part of the reason the teacher was fired.
Please read the article from the St Petersburg Times. Nowhere is there any evidence that the Pasco County School Board representative mentions “Wizardry”. This seems to come from the media that somehow got involved months later. The SPT article mentions “magic tricks”.
For a Message Board theoretically devoted to fighting ignorance we are damned quick to become the mob given a lack of hard evidence.
Re-read the articles. The only person quoted as saying there was a Wizardry charge is the guy who got sacked. He’s quoted as quoting the school official. Nothing else there is a quote, at least not in what I’ve read about this.
FWIW, I laughed my ass off at this.
You poor, poor fool. Everyone knows witches do it in base 16. :smack:
Well, it was community college.
If they hate wizards and want to get rid of them, they may be agents of the Lone Power. < cue ominous music >