A Wisconsin middle school teacher has been suspended. Her grave offense against acceptable norms?
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column.[S]chool officials discovered a photo of her with a gun on Facebook. [More]
Folks, I've pushed it beyond what I should. I'm not fully recovered and am going to go spend the rest of the day taking it easy under wife's orders.
Please understand if I don't get to your emails.
Normally, I'd spend the next hour promoting this Examiner column on various websites and social networks. I'm counting on my friends to help me out here.
I hope by virtue of the fact that many of you are regulars, that means...
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Feel better, David.
Safer to be a sadomasochistic bisexual transvestite Marxist than a Second Amendment advocate. They marched and got discrimination against THEM made illegal.
As long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses...
Was she trying to convey the message "Come and take THIS one?"
Well, fellow neue Juden, taking your livelihood is almost as good as taking your guns.
A local teacher explained the Bill of Rights to her high school class. They had never heard much about it, strangely. She was fired for "misuse of class time." She was a SCIENCE teacher, see, with such a great relationship with the kids that they coiuld talk to her about anything. That;s what most teachers would die to have. They were troubled by their principal frisking them, down to turning out their pockets, just whenever he felt like it.
The county school superintendent upheld the firing, and the board of Stuporvisors upheld HIM.
They all heard from me. No reply. I'm just another peon.
With a long memory.
http://www.beaverdam.k12.wi.us/bd/dist-admin
There's your contact info for these shitheads.
i think it's in poor taste to point a firearm straight onto the camera lens, but move off maybe five degrees and such a photo becomes significantly more tasteful. it's a psychological aspect of art, worthy of discussion, separate and distinct from the consequences of the human behavior depicted. i'm certainly willing to destroy a cheap camera for art's sake, though i wouldn't have to, because having your finger in register is part of the aesthetic merit in addition to being the only safe option.
it's her camera. it's her rifle. it's her face, her walls, and so on. poor judgment? who's to say that? the entire scene isn't in the shot and any law-abiding gun owner would demand the benefit of the doubt for themselves. further, i find it ridiculous that anyone is frightened or intimidated by a photograph.
there's an argument to be had regarding whether or not her facebook profile should be considered part of her teaching identity, and then whether she should be exposing such a photograph to others in that setting. for most teachers, this is implicit, and they keep it "cleaned up" with respect to their students. however, your profile remains the private property of facebook corporate, and freedom of expression remains protected for private entities from government and all of its bureaucracies. it is not possible for her to waive that right even if her facebook profile is exclusively for her teaching activities: she can stand in her classroom and say or do anything, so long as it threatens/coerces no one, and that classroom is assuredly not only for her teaching activities but it is also government property.
personally, i have had a gunny professor whose profile picture to this day is of him grimacing and swinging a pick-axe in front of the camera, and i think it's hilarious, and i hope that if he ever caught flak for it he'd tell the university to piss off and refuse to take it down or quit. yet, no one has ever complained! college students can handle it (they're just barely mature enough). apparently, educational bureaucrats cannot.
Well, I *was* going to say something along the lines of what Defender posted, but he beat me to it!
Relax and get some rest, David...the blog can wait while you recoup!
Jim
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