Every month, every year, some school board decides their essential mandate is to turn out mass copies of Mr. Potato Head.
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So, let’s get this straight. She was told not to use the book. She used the book. She got in trouble for it. She’s hurt. Shocking.
Yup !!! Sounds about right.
The School Board is always represented by those who have their children’s (ahem) best interest in mind. Never mind how much extra the football team gets or how bad the buses need repairs, their campaign literature is all the same.
99% of the whiners over community standards never had the smarts, accuity or balls to develop any on their own.
They wait for someone to read some centuries-out-of-date book at them and accept it by rote. Never having the courage to challenge the state is an American birthright, after all.
#1, Blinky,
I think you blinked at the wrong time. She asked to use the book, did not receive an answer, sent permission slips home and received 149 / 150 affirmatives responses, and then AFTER the books were distributed did someone say NO.
The School Board would rather have someone use religious tracts as reading material. (sorry Mustard)
Blinky, you are another fracking dullard who believes in always doing exactly what you are told? Go ahead! March off that cliff like all the other white-bread-lemmings.
Of course, if you’d watched the video, you’d know the teacher asked the parents for permission and 149 out of 150 said, “Yes”.
Glad to see your Comment matched my analysis – #3.
Please, logic won’t work on the idiots here any more than logic works on the knee-jerk myopic dictators of society that attempt to guide what
ourtheir children learn when they couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with a hole in the bottom. Those bowdlerites can’t see past their hypocritical “morals”. People like that make me ashamed that they are American.Then when their kids turn out to be soulless automatons only concerned with what’s on TV they complain about the lack of teaching that opens kid’s minds and stimulates their ambitions.
Yeah, she was told not to do it. She did it. Then she was told to undo it and didn’t. Try that at your job and see how it works.
I taught high school (in Indiana coincidentally but both north and south of Indy where this happened). Don’t screw around and piss off the people in charge and expect nothing to come of it.
Also, remember this the next time someone talks about those teacher’s unions and how strong they are. The only thing the teacher’s union ever did for me was reduce my pay check by taking out dues.
#3–god==everything you say is nonsensical.
1. How can you whine if you don’t have “standards” you think are being violated?
2. Who is “they?”
3. Nothing in the clip indicates old books being read. The controversy is a new book with coarse language being used and the school boards wants to use “a better role model.”
4. In the main, this story IS about challenging the State. She fought the law, and the law won–a good lesson for all the kiddies.
If this teacher weren’t a silly woman, she would have taught the approved texts and had the other material as outside supplemental done on the qt.
You seldom win by attacking the system head on.
#4 “sent permission slips home and received 149 / 150 affirmatives responses,”
Sounds like permission to me.
What, no book burning at the town square?
I think she got in trouble for not taking the book back.
I don’t have any significant opinion on whether it’s a good or bad book. But if you say “… and then I decided not to take the book back,” what do you expect? “My boss said I shouldn’t open source our code, but then I looked and saw how it would save the world, and I went ahead and released the source code anyway…”
@#7
Thank GOD you were not a founding father of this country.
#6–smartalix==school is all about teaching conformity, to follow orders, to get the BASICS. Education comes from life, from independent studies, from your family, friends, experience.
As a State Institution, school shouldn’t be seen as anything but statist. You wouldn’t like it otherwise. Everybody wants freedom until it delivers what you don’t want. Go for the bland.
On the contrary, I don’t like it and won’t send my kids to it (and haven’t).
#14–smartalix==if you are sending your kiddies to private schools, then you are simply choosing the type of conformity you are imposing.
If home schooling, your kiddies most likely will be pushed to one of two extremes==highly accomplished, but more likely, social underperformers. Depends on how nuts the teachers are.
Of course, in general the best approach is public schools with wide ranging parental encouraged independent studies. Takes a lot of time though.
Clearly this is part of the homosexual agenda.
15,
bobbo,
In either case, I have mnore choice over the curriculum my children are exposed to.
[Fixed. – ed.]
#17–smartalix==ignore the typos, yes, all your choices are a snore. Funny how we sell ourselves on the illusion of choice–even as if we knew what was better? School==basics, curriculum irrelevant. Education==independent studies based on interest/curiosity.
How do you test a curriculum for instilling a love of learning outside the classroom?
That’s up to the parents. Both my daughters are bioscience engineering majors (one in university, the other starts this fall). I do believe parenting is the most important factor, but dumb-ass schools don’t help anyone.
#4 – Mr. Catshit
>>The School Board would rather have someone use
>>religious tracts as reading material. (sorry Mustard)
No problem, Shit. I piss, fart, and shoot turds in the general direction of anyone (or any school board) that mandates religious tracts as reading material in anything other than a “Comaparative Religion” course (or something of the like), along with Dawkins, and the other High Preists of Atheism.
But hey. This is Indiana. You can’t expect too much.
And to all the dimwitted fucks who say “she was told no and she did it anyway”, WATCH THE FUCKING VIDEO. Dollars to donuts you nimrods are all in support of banning the book from all school curricula.
The solution is easy. Simply spread a little mayonnaise between the offending pages and voila! the kids will be fully protected against nasty stories of kids in California.
[Eeeeewwwwww! – ed.]
Here’s an idea. Get the book approved THEN use it. If it’s not approved… move.
Do we really need to approve foul language anymore? YES!
Unfortunately, I went to high school in that township (though not Perry Meridian high school). It was even worse then.
The only class I had that actually showed how things really work in the world was an “enriched” US History class that didn’t sugar coat what actually happened in our early history, warts and all. I’m surprised they didn’t fire our teacher for letting us read college level history books…
#22–mayo==that won’t work. Schools are filled with pervs who will do their thing and only claim it is mayonaise. We have to protect the kiddies!!!!!
#8 – Summed it up in 1 sentence …
“Yeah, she was told not to do it. She did it. Then she was told to undo it and didn’t. Try that at your job and see how it works.”
#26: that’s 4 sentences. Back to first grade with you.
Before I just left a comment I took the time to search and see if I could find any information about the Perry Township School Board. I think the biggest problem going for this teacher is that the School Board looks to have had some 18 months of turmoil that started when a majority of board members ousted the School Superintendent. Sides were taken, angers flared, and 10 folks ran for 3 spots on the School Board with the election just 2 months ago in May. So back to the teacher who was suspended, she decided to take her stand up against a new board & School Superintendent who feels they have a mandate from the Perry Township citizens. Teacher had bad timing.
http://www.takebackperryschools.com/
149 positive votes from voter parents out of 150 polled. Sounds like the School Board will have some campaign fights come election day.
The Board’s standard is in favor of that one dissenting parent. Not “community standards.”
There is a such thing as abuse of authority. To which subordination is the wrong thing to do.
Nobody handled this well including the teacher, supervisory staff at the school, the board, and the parents. If the teacher wants to treated as a professional then she has to act like a professional which means managing this situation and expectations better.
I didn’t see a lot of positive guidance by the school board either. “Sending a wrong message to children” is such a line of bullshit.
People who are saying “well she had it coming by disobeying”: Please let me know which companies you work for so I can sell my stock now.
This thing is a freakin’ cluster on all sides, but the students did get one message loud and clear.