Teachers use all sorts of examples to explain a lesson to their students: playing Simon Says to teach students listening skills, dissecting frogs to explain Biology, holding a Lincoln-Douglas style debate to explain political issues….and using a hypothetical assassination of the president to explain Geometry?
According to Fox News:
A geometry teacher in Jefferson County Alabama was investigated by the Secret Service after he used a hypothetical assassination of President Obama as a way to teach angles.
School officials say the Corner High School teacher apparently was teaching his students about parallel lines and angles and used the example of where to stand and aim to shoot the president.
Authorities were alerted, and Roy Sexton, special agent in charge of Birmingham’s Secret Service office, says his agency spoke with the teacher, did not find a credible threat and closed the investigation. No charges were filed.
Superintendent Phil Hammonds says the teacher remains at work and there are no plans to fire him.
“We are going to have a long conversation with him about what’s appropriate,” Hammonds said. “It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words.”
What do you think?
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He may not be a security threat but he is threatening the minds of children by even saying this in class. What an idiot he is, why didn’t he use George Bush or Rush L. as his example? Hell he could have used Sarah Palin.
Peace, Love and Chocolate
Tiffany
“We are going to have a long conversation with him about what’s appropriate,”
This is a grown man, not a child. He doesn’t need to be put in timeout he needs to be fired. That said, if a black teacher was fired because he used George Bush as an example, we would cry racism. Just sayin’.
Ladies and gentlemen, the insane doctrine of “white supremacy” is alive and doing great damage in the USA. The south has risen and the civil war is being waged again, while Black should be respondents, enraptured in BET boody shakin and the muck rakin lifestyle that spawns it, remain hypnotized and unresponsive; paralyzed by ignorance and fear. Conditioned by too many years of dehumanizing slavery we are waiting for the white MINORITY to give the non-white majority permission to mature, define, create, and speak for ourselves. Wait and wait and wait forever, ’cause the source of your knock down ain’t coming back to pick you up. That Alabama high school teacher is being absolutly true to who he is. He is taking the action he can, where he can, while he can. That’s what commited soilders do. Each of us must ask ourselves, “what am I commited to?” Commitment demands action.
I suggest the following: Study – Learn – Teach.
Our children are our responsibility,
Peace and Real Love,
BOB.
What the????
I can’t. I just…
*logs off life*
#dahell *logs off life* http://thefreshxpress.com/2010/05/fxp-news-president-obamas-assassination-used-as-example-in-class/
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Fire his ass. He is in a publicly funded position. You can’t bite the hand that feeds you. What an arsehole.