Edie Oats, WI--First-year teacher Susan Potts was placed on unpaid administrative leave pending termination from her position at Forked Tongue Middle School for paying for a lunchtime snack with a Massachusetts state quarter.
"We have a strict zero-tolerance policy regarding firearms, and the Massachusetts quarter has a firearm depicted on it. A teacher, of all people, should know better than to bring such items on campus," said Superintendent Stew Pid.
Pid was referring to the Massachusetts quarter, released in 2000 as part of the US Mint's extremely popular 50 State Quarters Program. The Massachusetts quarter clearly shows a minuteman carrying a firearm.
"I thought all money was acceptable at school," said Potts. "I just wanted a rice cake and gave the cafeteria lady some coins, one of which was the quarter in question. It never occurred to me to 'screen' my money, and I had no idea the cafeteria ladies were trained to look for people spending this particular quarter."
Potts referred to a recently-instituted anti-violence program at school, the Cafeteria Workers Against Rotten Teachers Endorsing Rifles, or CWARTER.
"The CWARTER program is an effective anti-violence campaign implemented at all our schools," according to Superintendent Pid. "We've trained all our cafeteria ladies to be on the lookout for money with weaponry on it."
After spending the inappropriate quarter, Ms. Potts was placed on unpaid administrative leave. Next Tuesday she will plead her case before the school board, which is expected to terminate her employment immediately.
OK, that didn't really happen. Want to read what idiotic thing really did happen to a Wisconsin teacher? Try this post at Joanne's.
A middle school teacher has been placed on leave for posting a photo of herself with a rifle on her Facebook page, reports WKOW 27 News in Wisconsin.
Compare that with the first paragraph I wrote above. Hard to tell which is real and which is parody, isn't it?
Update, 2/12/09: Well, that was fast:
The Beaver Dam teacher, placed on leave for what District officials deemed an “inappropriate” picture on her Facebook page, finally returned to class. The district investigated and she won’t face any more discipline. You can read the update to that story here: http://www.wkowtv.com/global/story.asp?s=9821639
You might think that would be the end of it, but you would be wrong:
The teacher’s union and the District are going to get together to come up with a policy at what teachers can and cannot post on their private Facebook page.
Amazing. If I were a teacher in that district, they could bite me.
Just as interesting, though, is this tidbit:
What I do find interesting now is that the union supported the action taken by the District and now, they’ll sit down to discuss policy.
That woman paid money to a union that supported her suspension when she did nothing wrong. I could go on an anti-union rant here, but I couldn't harm them any worse than they've harmed themselves in this case.
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And did you hear the story out of Oregon, about this college student?
No I had not. I'm angry, but not really surprised.
i was about to flip out cause i thought that first story was real
and as for the oregon student......i'd take their ass to state court and supreme if needed to get their asses fired
One thing I've never understood is how little recourse firearms owners seek in the courts.
It seems to me that many of these sorts of situations are actionable and an outfit analogous to FIRE could put the fear of God into those responsible for going ahead with the decision to misuse their small powers.
One or two adverse civil judgments and I think a lot of the enthusiasm for this sort of abuse of gun owners would disappear.
You have a great talent for satirical writing.
I expect more of the same once Obama gets his full cabinet empaneled. We will see lots and lots of cosmetic and social correct lawsuits aimed at just making people ashamed of not being just like the mindless card-carrying liberals that hold power. Can I leave now?
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