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Monday, January 23, 2006
Stupid Teacher Alert
With all of the news stories lately about teachers having... improper relationships with students, I thought it would be refreshing to see a report about a teacher just being a complete jack@ss, and not sexually assaulting a student. Shall we?
But... back to the story at hand.
The principal is going to "talk" to the teacher about his actions. Joshua's mom wants him to be able to retake his mid-term. Sorry... that's not enough. If I was in a bitter mood, I'd suggest putting his sorry rear in the middle of a circle and have Joshua and the Colt's fan throw whatever they darn well please at him.
Since I'm not in a bitter mood, just fire him. Now.
An ethnic studies high-school teacher and die-hard Steelers fan in Pittsburgh has "humiliated" one of his students who wore a Denver Broncos jersey to class, making the boy sit on the floor and having his classmates pelt him with paper.Before we get into the what this idiot teacher supposedly did, do I have to mention how much I despise the idea of an "ethnic studies" class in high school? We will never have the color-blind society that MLK dreamed of if we keep pointing out how much one race jerked around another race.
But... back to the story at hand.
According to a report in the Denver Post, Joshua Vannoy, 17, showed up for his midterm test sporting a John Elway No. 7 Broncos jersey. Not only did his teacher at Beaver Falls High School, John Kelly, make him take the test while sitting on the floor, he had the teen sit in a circle of desks and told others in the class – under threat of losing points on the exam – to throw paper wads at him...Kelly defended his actions, saying he had warned students not to wear a team jersey other than the Steelers to class. The teacher claims he was "just messing around" with the boy.So... just because this idiot wants to "mess around with the boy," he can humilate the kid and call him a "stinking Denver fan." Lovely. Just plain lovely. And evidently this isn't the first time he's done this. He pulled the same stunt with a kid who wore a Colts shirt.
The principal is going to "talk" to the teacher about his actions. Joshua's mom wants him to be able to retake his mid-term. Sorry... that's not enough. If I was in a bitter mood, I'd suggest putting his sorry rear in the middle of a circle and have Joshua and the Colt's fan throw whatever they darn well please at him.
Since I'm not in a bitter mood, just fire him. Now.
