That Wisconsin School Teacher

6 Responses to “That Wisconsin School Teacher”

1. on 08 Feb 2009 at 1:34 pm # MAJ Mike

   Hmmm. If I post a photo of myself on my school’s staff webpage (all teachers in my school district maintain a required teacher webpage) holding an antique saber will I be disciplined?

   I use replica and antique weapons and armor in teaching my history classes. We use these to discuss advancements in technology and to exercise my students’ higher reasoning/analysis skills.

   I even bring in a Russia-capture KAR-98 when we “do” WWII.

   All of this is accomplished with the approval of my Principal.

   At lease the teacher wasn’t naked or engaging in porn.

2. on 08 Feb 2009 at 3:43 pm # Rich

   MAJ Mike

   if she had been naked or engaging in porn the ACLU and the teachers union would have been there defending her.

3. on 08 Feb 2009 at 4:18 pm # teqjack

   Maj. Mike, to be photographed “holding an antique saber” may, in some places, get you “disciplined.” Especially if the photo is taken outdoors. Many locales here in New England have quite strict laws against “public” carrying of a “blade” over three inches.

   Now, as to the teacher. I would ask only if she took the pic herself with a timer on the camera, or was someone holding it? The former, fine, the latter not good.

   But as to punishing her in this way, well, it is just an extension of (possibly) well-meant but badly-used zero-tolerance policies. We have come a far way from the Nineteen-twenties, when the Washington DC school system could proudly publish pictures of its High School girl’s rifle teams in the yearbook.

4. on 08 Feb 2009 at 4:41 pm # straightarrow

   Watch the video of the news segment. Pay particular attention to the words they hit really hard. Just the inflection and emphasis sends a message of what the viewer is supposed to think. The words themselves are bad enough.

   What I want to know, is when did the least among us become the arbiters of what is acceptable?

5. on 09 Feb 2009 at 1:34 am # John

   We’re up for “cultural cleansing”. Don’t doubt for an instant that that is their intent. All we have to do is lay back and let them.

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