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Yet Another Teacher in Trouble Over Anti-Gay Remarks

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Yet Another Teacher in Trouble Over Anti-Gay Remarks

Missouri math teacher Jim Whitney. The Joplin High School teacher is in trouble after making a comment on the Facebook page of a former student last week who posted a link to a news article about a gay 15-year old from Canada who committed suicide after being bullied.

"Moral of the story: Don't be gay" was Whitney's comment to the student's post, the Joplin Globe reports. When questioned by another user on the same thread about how many more cases of suicide will it take for people to pay attention, Whitney allegedly retorted, "11-13 ought to do it." Although Whitney released an emailed apology on Monday, he could not be reached for further comment and the Joplin School Board is currently undertaking an investigation regarding the incident.
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http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_...Teacher_in_Hot_Water_Over_Homophobic_Remarks/


http://www.facebook.com/joplineagles


http://jhs.joplinschools.org/

Just tell it page:
http://jhs.joplinschools.org/module...87&sessionid=cb7ccf0ca974c538b473107ec235beca

contact page:
http://jhs.joplinschools.org/module...ca&sessionid=cb7ccf0ca974c538b473107ec235beca
 
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Way to go Facebook!

Uncovering bigotry one user at a time...
 
I'm not sure I understand.

The facebook page is private correspondence full of flippant banter between two adults- one who happens to have a job in a school and the other who attended the school in the past.

The ex-school student exposed the identity of the school employee?
:confused:
 
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StarCrasher, I think being a school teacher in the modern world is becoming more and more untenable.

You were unhappy with your teacher's method of marking so you could trawl through his trash-can or his internet banter to find some dirt to discredit him.

I wonder if children should be taught by robots. :(
 
The fact that he advocated suicide (whether jokingly or sincerely) is definitely the most troubling aspect of this. That goes beyond the bounds of protected speech, IMNSHO, especially for someone who is supposed to be acting in loco parentis.
 
pat grimshaw said:
I'm not sure I understand.

The facebook page is private correspondence full of flippant banter between two adults- one who happens to have a job in a school and the other who attended the school in the past.

The ex-school student exposed the identity of the school employee?
:confused:
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LilBit said:
… someone who is supposed to be acting in loco parentis.
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And too often the teachers are expected to do the work of lazy parents. They're expected to be paragons of virtue and infinitely wise. It's an unreal expectation.
 
I get so tired of people making these types of comments, then saying how sorry they are. You said it, you meant it. Your only sorry you were called on it.
 
I'm still really confused about how this story became public. So was it his private Facebook? Was the person who tattled on him a former student? Why was a student on his Facebook friend list? *scratches head*

Based only on what I know, I'm split on this issue. On one hand, a person, be it a teacher, has every right to express their opinion on their Facebook. On the other hand, if he's expressing it to an audience that connects back to his work place and classroom, then that's a problem. Don't mix your personal views with your job because that's going to bite you.
 
pat grimshaw said:
And too often the teachers are expected to do the work of lazy parents.
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What does this have to do with the topic at hand?

They're expected to be paragons of virtue and infinitely wise. It's an unreal expectation.
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Expecting teachers not to advocate suicide for gay students is hardly an unrealistic expectation.
 
This is the kind of crap that emerges every time we get a significant technological jump in communication technology. Every time there's a new method of communicating, there are new customs that have to be felt out and formed to deal with it. The reflexes and habits we have from the old technology can get us into serious trouble if used in the new. New reflexes have to be developed, and with Facebook that's hugely critical: on the one hand, it's very easy to write and no instant feedback when you start going astray, and on the other hand the audience is magnified as well as hidden, so words have legs, so to speak, more than every before.

None of that excuses irresponsible words; it just explains why this king of thing is common.
 
That is horrifying.

These are the types of people parents entrust with the safety of their children.

....I will never forget what my Middle School Catholic Principle said to us in an emergency assembly: Our number one job is not to educate you it is to keep you safe.

That stuck with me forever and it is utterly unfathomable that someone entrusted with that duty would say such a thing, ever, period.


But to say that in this current climate where kids who make "It Gets Better" videos kill themselves too? Not only that, but have the person they are talking to bring it up in the conversation and joke about it?

Fuck me.

I don't even know what to say to that.
 
DigitalFudge said:
....I will never forget what my Middle School Catholic Principle said to us in an emergency assembly: Our number one job is not to educate you it is to keep you safe.

That stuck with me forever and it is utterly unfathomable that someone entrusted with that duty would say such a thing, ever, period.
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I'd say your principal had it slightly wrong: keeping students safe is part of the education. It's part of the whole contract that rests on, "Whatever you do, teaches".

THis guy really blew the contract.
 
LilBit said:
I'm perfectly calm, Melanie. I'm just having a hard time following your so-called "logic."
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I think his logic is that teachers have kids so much of the day that many parents think they don't have to instill any values or discipline in their kids, because the schools take care of it. So teachers have all this other baggage dumped on them that isn't supposed to be their job. He wasn't trying to justify anything (I'm clueless where you grabbed that from), but to give perspective.

It's sad that when there's bullying, it's the schools that are expected to deal with it. What ought to happen is that every parent be given a handbook about bullying to go through with their kid -- and any parent who refuses will have the kid on probation... and if a kid engages in bullying, the parent gets fined and has to do community service too.
 
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