Tag Archives: school administrators

January 22, 2012

“Let’s Have An Open Debate on Both Sides of This Controversial Issue. Wait…Your Side Offends Me. Shut Up. You’re A Bully.”

Shut up, they explained. That’s public education and tolerance! Continue reading →

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December 30, 2011

Unethical Quote of the Week: Patrick Lott

Nobody’s perfect, but almost everyone can avoid taking secret videos of naked teens. Continue reading →

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December 30, 2011

Vote For The 2011 Curmie…and Education’s Shame!

Make sure you vote for the educator who disgraced hsi or her profession most! Continue reading →

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December 17, 2011

Ethics Quiz, Killer Pizza Edition: Can School “No-Tolerance” Be Dumber Than THIS?

Can political correctness “no-tolerance” idiocy in the schools get any worse than punishing a child for the shape of his pizza slice? Continue reading →

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November 28, 2011

The Emma Sullivan Affair: Not Just An Aberration

I believe 2011 is the year in which the teaching and school administration professions reached the tipping point where it is no longer rational to trust them. Does that mean that every single school, administrator and teacher is untrustworthy? No, of course not. What it means is that the education professional culture no longer rejects or even discourages incompetence, warped priorities and cowardice, so that parents and students cannot assume that problems or even regular duties will be handled fairly or well. Continue reading →

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November 26, 2011

Abuse of Government Power+ School Administrator Cowardice = Student Persecution

Three state employees gang up on a student who was doing nothing but expressing the opinion that the Governor of Kansas sucks. Continue reading →

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October 29, 2011

Comment of the Day: “Better Late Than Never: The ACLU Finally Opposes the High School War On Off-Campus Speech”

Our often hyperbolic correspondent Elizabeth offers her rebuttal to the apparently unshakable conviction of commenter Xenophon that the needs of school discipline justify schools punishing students for a personal blog or Facebook post, in this case, one critical of a teacher. Continue reading →

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October 27, 2011

Ethics Quiz: Should A High School Football Team Be Punished For THINKING About Being Unethical?

Was making out a list including unethical acts unethical? Was it unethical to consider doing any of them? Continue reading →

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October 27, 2011

Better Late Than Never: The ACLU Finally Opposes the High School War On Off-Campus Speech

No school should have authority to discipline students regarding what they communicate to each other when they aren’t in school, and that includes offensive comments, teasing and bullying. Now the ACLU is taking some action to make that point stick. Continue reading →

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October 16, 2011

And You Thought Natalie Munroe Was An Unethical Teacher…Well, Meet Jeremy Hollinger

Remember Natalie Munroe, the teacher who blogged about how much she detested her high school students, calling them names like “rat-boy” and “jerkoff”? What, you may ask, could be more destructive to the necessary trust between teacher and student, or parents and the teacher to whom they entrust their student’s education, short of actual abuse? How about a teacher ridiculing his grade school special ed students? Continue reading →

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