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"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.
Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.
http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"
This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding paragraph was not up to our standards. The comments to this story are spot on. You expect better than this and we let you down. There are so many comments referring to this paragraph, we cannot just delete it, hence the strike-through. More to follow.]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Marand on Saturday August 30 2014, @11:11AM
The blockquote from TFA seemed interesting, so I'll be reading that later. That said, on to the real beef: what the hell is with the poorly written, batshit crazy ranting after the blockquote? It's not even tangentially related to the article; instead of getting a useful blurb or insightful commentary, we're assaulted with some crazy-fuck stream-of-consciousness ranting because somebody wrote the word "gun" and he felt it was a perfect opportunity to spew garbage over an article submission.
I could complain about the lack of question marks on sentences that should obviously end with them, but it's not worth it, because everything outside the blockquote is off-topic drivel that should never have appeared on the front page of SN at all.
Editors, I appreciate the story being posted, but this is one case where your "less is more" editing style is not appropriate: you should have butchered that submission and rewritten it into something coherent and relevant to the article itself. Don't let the SoylentNews front page turn into a soap box for every crazy internet hobo that can fill out a submission form.
(Score: 2) by McGruber on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:23AM
The history of /. is filled with memorable events, some good (when CmdrTaco proposed), some bad (When Jon Katz was trolled by the Afghanistan Vic-20 user, OMG Ponies). The /. community and editors got through those events, learned from them, and the site and community improved.
I hope this is one of those instances and that, someday, we will remember that time when the Insane Hobo got his article posted.