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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, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday August 30 2014, @11:33AM
Umm, OK bye? Sorry you had such a terrible time being forced to read stories on this free website.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @01:28PM
There is a definite quality problem on this site.
Let's not make things worse with an attitude problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @08:18PM
You must be new here.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @09:24PM
We're *all* new here.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:11AM
Khyber?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday August 31 2014, @02:49PM
LOL - well done EF!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by unauthorized on Saturday August 30 2014, @02:57PM
Being free has nothing to do with it. Doing a poor job at attracting/retaining readership is a valid point of criticism for a website which is trying to do just that, free or not. Let's not argue against bad logic with more bad logic, there are enough flamewars on the Internet as it is.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning people who whine about leaving in the comments. Being displeased with the service is no excuse to disrupt it for other people. That is why we have a moderation system.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Fnord666 on Saturday August 30 2014, @04:53PM
Unfortunately the moderation system does not, as of yet, extend to moderation of the front page stories. If this isn't in the feature request list, it should be.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday August 31 2014, @02:54PM
Moderation of the front page stories is the responsibility of the editors - we got it wrong. We are trying to correct the situation both here and by finding out what exactly happened - because the procedures that we have in place should have prevented just such an occurrence. We realize the damage that has been done to the site and our community. But before you start proposing a complete rewrite of the software can we please have some time to find out why it went wrong?