Sunday, October 05, 2008

Teaching Kids What C.H.A.N.G.E. Really Means

This is sort of amazing (and the relevant story is only the first minute or two, not the whole thing):



The topper is this guy was just transferred, meaning he's still working and just getting "training" and "a written reprimand". That response strikes as the only thing perhaps more ridiculous than the original offense.

via The Little Outlet and WSHH

5 comments:

  1. One more reason I have an abiding distrust of the South.

    How did his ass not get fired for that?? This Northerner fails to understand.

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  2. He probably didn't get fired because it's Florida. And they won't show the man's face, nor let us hear his feeble apology; sad.

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  3. Yeah. The Florida education system is...lacking. Every other day, there's a news story about a teacher sleeping with kids or some other BS like the stuff you just highlighted.

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  4. Anonymous10/06/2008

    Mr. Harrigan!

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  5. Of course, the female teachers who sleep with their students seem to get fired. It's the racists whose jobs are secure.

    I looked up the teacher's town, Marianna, Florida. Here's the ethnic breakdown in town:

    White Non-Hispanic (55.7%)
    Black (40.2%)
    Hispanic (2.6%)
    Two or more races (1.2%)
    Other race (0.9%)
    American Indian (0.7%)

    So...I'm guessing the school's not all white. A news story was the classroom had "mostly white students," which means some students were faced with an asshole of a racist teacher, and those kids get to see him "punished" by being assigned to the adult education program. That sucks.

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