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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:20 PM
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Teacher suspended for President Obama assassination lesson
Apparently it took lots of phone calls to do the right thing. :eyes:


Teacher suspended for President Obama assassination lesson

An Alabama teacher has been suspended after a geometry lesson on the best angles to assassinate President Obama


An Alabama teacher has been suspended after a national outcry for using an assassination attempt against President Obama to illustrate a maths problem to his class.

Gregory Harrison, the teacher at Corner High School in Jefferson County, Alabama, was to receive a slap on the wrist in the form of a "long conversation" with the local school authorities, after sparking a Secret Service investigation when he discussed possible angles to use in shooting at the president.

But officials only later decided they needed to take tougher action against Harrison following a flood of calls from people outraged at the lenient treatment. Harrison's deadly lesson was revealed this week by the local newspaper, Birmingham News, which reported:

The teacher was appar­ently teaching his geometry students about parallel lines and angles, officials said. He used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama.

"He was talking about angles and said, 'If you're in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,'" said Joseph Brown, a senior in the geometry class.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/may/19/teacher-alabama-assasination-obama
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Raine1967 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:25 PM
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1. At a certain point, you'd think people would realize
that this is NOT appropriate. Good lawd -- it's bad enough the educator used the POTUS as an example, but really -- could they not come up with a better way to teach geometry?

REALLY?

I would very much like for Americans to go back to having morality filters. Right now I see none. No common sense, no sense of history and no sensitivity to the shameful events in our recent American History.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:54 PM
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10. It was beyond stupid..and says more about
his lack of common sense and perhaps a grudge than anything.

Thank you to whomever participated in the "flood of calls"!

"Who in America hasn't made a joke about Obama?"

I don't have to make "jokes" about the President..I didn't make jokes about fucking bushcheney, either.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 01:24 AM
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24. And bullets don't follow straight lines, they follow ballistic trajectories
So it's not a geometry problem at all, but physics.


And replacing "Obama" with "buck" would have been a heck of a lot easier.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 01:43 AM
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26. But that involves too much math!
Them curves and all are tricky....
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 09:21 PM
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15. IMHO he knew damned well it was inappropriate. He didn't care.
He obviously hates having that "damned n-----r" in the WH.
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riderinthestorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 09:52 PM
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17. Since the school admin was only going to give him a stern lecture, he also knew they backed him too
so he took the opportunity and ran with it.

I expect he never in a million years expected this to make a national splash. I believe he thought he could do his despicable math exercise and get away with it because his admin hates Obama too, and he knew it.

He's only gotten suspended after a national outcry. Nobody cared locally....
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 10:08 PM
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18. b. i. n. g. o.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:29 PM
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2. Sad that it took so much public outrage for the "officials" to decide that the teacher
deserved a bit more than a slap on the wrist.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:30 PM
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3. This Isn't Appropriate No Matter Who Is President
Good that he's suspended. Should be fired.
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housewolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:33 PM
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6. I think so too
How the he** did that teacher EVERY think that was an appropriate way to teach????
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:37 PM
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8. His lack of judgement is embarrassing to the profession.
He should never be allowed back in the classroom.
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 06:46 PM
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21. Bigger question is " kids lack" of judgement. They should have walked out of the room to report him.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:34 PM
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7. Absolutely!
My biggest fear during the Bush presidency was the possibility we might have a left wing nutcase as deranged as the right wing NRA imbeciles.
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:31 PM
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4. Good. n/t
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:32 PM
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5. The same nimrods who defended this incredibly stoopid 'lesson'
would probably get all fizzed-up with rabies if the teacher had used billiard balls as an example: 'He's teachin' our chillun the debbil's game - POOL!'
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 07:41 PM
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9. Wow! How damn dumb do you have to
be and still get a diploma? That's rhetorical.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 08:07 PM
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11. I left a valentine on their voicemail at (205) 379-3200. nt
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 08:11 PM
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12. Ha! I'd love to hear what kind of 'heart' you put into it! nt
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 08:14 PM
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13. It was slightly nicer than my conversation with the bar that burned the effigy (414) 476-9055. nt
Edited on Wed May-19-10 08:14 PM by AtomicKitten
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 08:18 PM
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14. Only suspended?
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 09:33 PM
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16. He should be fired and black-balled from education
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liberalla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 04:47 AM
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19. Suspended without pay?
In the video at the link, it says the 'teacher' may still lose his job...
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 03:21 PM
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20. seems there are jackasses everywhere you look these days . . . n/t
.
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Irishonly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 07:23 PM
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22. Such stupid, hateful people should not be allowed in a classroom
IMHO he should have been fired and lost his credential. Can you imagine if someone had done a lesson on angles to kill bush or Darth?
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 10:29 PM
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23. With all the concern about school shootings one would think that it is a no brainer to
suspend a teacher who would use shooting anybody as an example in a lesson.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 01:41 AM
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25. Here's a case where we didn't even need facebook or twitter to out the stupid!
Edited on Fri May-21-10 01:41 AM by depakid
the stupid found another way to get out!
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 02:08 AM
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27. Amazing.
Really truly amazing.

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RFKHumphreyObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 06:01 AM
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28. I give up...the stupid in this world is just getting bigger every day
I think he should be charged with advocating harm to the President and thrown into jail

I have no sympathy or compassion for this idiotic, bigoted moron
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 06:43 AM
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29. He should be treated as a domestic terroritst....nt
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:55 AM
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30. Suspension isn't good enough. This lunatic should not be teaching kids.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 10:09 AM
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31. Proof of the power of the internet
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