# Teacher resigns After Reading This REALLY RAUNCHY Poem In Freshman Math Class **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750 "2015-02-15T22:07:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/1 "2015-02-15T22:07:24Z")
I Wish my math teachers were this cool. šŸ˜ƒ Canā€™t imagine why this guy did this. He must of known it would get him canned. Its is a really funny poem. If Yahoo News is willing to print it. Then is it really that smutty? Bawdy yes. dirty nahā€¦ Every one of those students has already seen and read far, far worse on the Internet. Guaranteed. this is just the beginning. Iā€™m printing this bawdy limerick for a wall plaque in my home office. [http://news.yahoo.com/teacher-resigns-reading-really-raunchy-poem-freshman-math-154839159.html](http://news.yahoo.com/teacher-resigns-reading-really-raunchy-poem-freshman-math-154839159.html) > [@](#): > > In the Garden of Eden, > > As everyone knows, > Lives Adam and Eve, > Without any clothes. > In this garden, > Were two little leaves, > One covered Adamā€™s, > One covered Eveā€™s. > As the story goes on, > Never the less to say, > The wind came along, > And blew the leaves away. > At the sight, > Adam did stare, > There was Eveā€™s treasure, > All covered with hair. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/2 "2015-02-15T22:18:53Z")
Does it seem like the last couple stanzas are add ons? This seems like another author. Itā€™s more clumsily written and unneeded. > [@](#): > > Then down through the years, > People did screw, > And now it is time, > For me and you. > > So pull down your pants, > And lay in the grass, > Cause Iā€™m in the mood, > For a piece of that ASS! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/3 "2015-02-15T22:58:45Z")
My Social Studies teacher read us Kurt Vonnegutā€™s short stories from ā€˜Welcome to the Monkey Houseā€™ Turned me into a reader. Wish I had more teachers like him. Yes, we where young, but he treated us asā€¦ I donno, people. Not just some more kids. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/4 "2015-02-15T23:02:39Z")
ā€œWhen we hired you to teach the kids how to multiply, thatā€™s not what we meant!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/5 "2015-02-15T23:50:48Z")
Iron Butterfly lives. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/6 "2015-02-16T00:05:44Z")
Amateur. I expected ā€œThe Ballad of Eskimo Nell,ā€ which makes this seem like a Childā€™s Garden of Verses. (Google it). ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/7 "2015-02-16T00:35:00Z")
Not exactly the same thing but a similar anecdote: As a senior in high school, the Nun that taught english wanted to teach from a contemporary novel for the first semester. She chose The Godfather, by Mario Puzo. Obviously she did not read the novel before class started. The first day, she started with the person in the left front seat to read aloud from the book. As you know, about page 15, we find that Santino Corleone has an enormous penis and a page or so later he his having wild sex with Lucy Mancini up against the door of a bedroom. The student copies of the book had been paid or, but that was the last page that was read aloud in class. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/8 "2015-02-16T02:42:24Z")
I enjoy reading this book of limericks. It always makes me laugh whenever Iā€™m feeling down. > **[The Limerick : 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants, and Index: Gershon Legman:...](https://www.amazon.com/Limerick-Examples-Notes-Variants-Index/dp/B00005W98G)** > > The Limerick : 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants, and Index \[Gershon Legman\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. The Limerick : 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants, and Index ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/9 "2015-02-16T05:10:41Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > this is just the beginning. Iā€™m printing this bawdy limerick for a wall plaque in my home office. > [Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More](http://news.yahoo.com/teacher-resigns-reading-really-raunchy-poem-freshman-math-154839159.html) Teacher should be fired for calling that a limerick when it fits neither meter nor rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/10 "2015-02-16T10:03:41Z")
I wonder what would happen today to my high school biology teacher who taught us ā€œthe four fā€™s of lifeā€ (feeding, fighting, filling out, and reproduction). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/11 "2015-02-16T11:00:55Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Teacher should be fired for calling that a limerick when it fits neither meter nor rhyme. And really badly written, presumably by a 12 year old judging by its poor quality and giggly childish nature. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/12 "2015-02-16T11:26:33Z")
I looked at that snippet and thought ā€œmeh, whatā€™s the fuss about?ā€ Then I looked at the whole thing in the article. Holy CRAP, WFT? I canā€™t imagine what I would have thought if any teacher of mine had thought that sort of thing appropriate - probably ā€˜whereā€™s the nearest cave I can crawl into?ā€™ I wonder if he was leering at any student in particular when he recited it. Because, frankly, guy sounds like a complete perv. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/13 "2015-02-16T13:40:25Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > I looked at that snippet and thought ā€œmeh, whatā€™s the fuss about?ā€ > > Then I looked at the whole thing in the article. Holy CRAP, WFT? > > I canā€™t imagine what I would have thought if any teacher of mine had thought that sort of thing appropriate - probably ā€˜whereā€™s the nearest cave I can crawl into?ā€™ > > I wonder if he was leering at any student in particular when he recited it. Because, frankly, guy sounds like a complete perv. Yeah, reading the whole thing puts it in a completely different light. The guy a perv. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/14 "2015-02-16T14:40:49Z")
What the hell does ā€œnever the less to sayā€ mean? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/15 "2015-02-16T15:16:22Z")
ā€¦aaaannnd even SDMB can be clickbaited. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/16 "2015-02-16T15:40:25Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > I looked at that snippet and thought ā€œmeh, whatā€™s the fuss about?ā€ > > Then I looked at the whole thing in the article. Holy CRAP, WFT? > > I canā€™t imagine what I would have thought if any teacher of mine had thought that sort of thing appropriate - probably ā€˜whereā€™s the nearest cave I can crawl into?ā€™ > > I wonder if he was leering at any student in particular when he recited it. Because, frankly, guy sounds like a complete perv. There are any number of problems with it. We give our own kids exposure to a ton of stuff - yes theyā€™ve heard worse. But we are also trying very hard to teach them to judge the appropriateness of the audience. Fart jokes are funny around your friends, they are not around your grandmother. This is completely inappropriate for a teacher in a classroom with a student audience. There isnā€™t any way this is at all related to math class. You cannot make the case that in English class Puzo is appropriate even if it has sex in it. Or that Vonnegut makes appropriate social commentary reading for a Social Studies class. And yeah, the whole piece - from a teacher to minors? That isnā€™t innuendo. It certainly doesnā€™t align with the abstinence only education Texas tends to favor (or even the ā€œabstinence is best, but being human, here are ways to keep pregnancy and disease at bayā€ favored by liberals when teaching teens). Iā€™d be asking for his head as well, and Iā€™m a liberal in Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/17 "2015-02-16T16:22:53Z")
The age of the teacher isnā€™t stated. I would bet he is on the very young sideā€¦ unless heā€™s into his dotage. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/18 "2015-02-16T17:47:31Z")
My HS English teacher (for several years) in the 90s would point out and explain the more subtle bawdy remarks in Shakespeare, etc. I heard she retired with honors recently. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/19 "2015-02-16T17:59:59Z")
The quoted portion isnā€™t bad, but the rest of the poemā€¦ yeah, probably not appropriate unless itā€™s somehow connected to the curriculum. I could give it a pass in a sex ed class or literature or something. But in math? It just seems like the teacher was trying too hard to get the attention of the students. I wouldnā€™t fire a teacher over that, but thereā€™d be some kind of disciplinary action. Even in Texas, this doesnā€™t seem bad enough to fire over. Technically, the teacher is just resigning, but my guess is that he wasnā€™t exactly given a choice. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750/20 "2015-02-16T23:11:49Z")
There is something seriously wrong in the head with a math teacher who decides to read: > [@](#): > > ā€¦ The head of Adamā€™s thing, > > Peeked into the hole, > > And filled her with passion, > > Beyond her control. > > Backward and forward, > > His thing did slide, > > And Eveā€™s treasure, > > Was all wet inside. > > The joy was good, > > She wouldnā€™t let loose, > > Until Adamā€™s thing, > > Was all out of juice. ā€¦ to a class of 14 year old boys and girls as part of math class. Who thought that that was a good idea. I would not feel comfortable as a parent having my son or daughter alone with him to ask for help during lunch period or after school, or in any position of power over my child. Iā€™d be surprised if many parents felt otherwise. No problem with real literature that includes some explicit sex seriously handled in English, even at 14. Even pointing out the dirty jokes in Shakespeare. Love me some Vonnegut and no issue with it being taught even with the pictures of an anus. This OTOH was inappropriate behavior that identifies the teacher as risk for other worse inappropriate actions and leaving him in position that such might happen would be a bad idea. And I live in a very liberal town. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-resigns-after-reading-this-really-raunchy-poem-in-freshman-math-class/712750.md?page=2)