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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 AlHunt on Saturday August 30 2014, @02:19PM
It's as old as computers themselves - "Garbage In - Garbage Out". As I type this, there are 8 submissions in the queue.
Pretty much everyone can agree this submission (well, the commentary attached to it) should never have seen the light of day and most of the comments, including this one, are off-topic.
It looks like UIDs are up in the 4,000's. If only 5% of those are active users, and those users will commit to submitting 1 decent story a week, the garbage submissions will be buried in a crapstorm of great stuff.
I'm guilty. I want an alternative to the Brand X site and I have not done my part by submitting consistently.
Today, I submitted something and commit to do at least 1 each week. You are all hereby challenged to do the same.
If you want a better community, you have to be part of it.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Saturday August 30 2014, @05:01PM
The problem is that the way things are supposed to go is
and in this case there was(presumably) a failure in the editing stage. Without the editing I might as well be reading Reddit.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by evilviper on Saturday August 30 2014, @07:48PM
There was a poll some time ago... Readers voted for fewer stories per-day. SN staff decided to disregard the results and publish more frequent stories (even as some get practically no comments), emptying the queue faster, and spreading discussion more thinly.
Editors reject plenty of decent stories, too... If they chose to save up the stories they don't happen to need right away, they could go back and dig through the reject queue when the selection is getting thin. Hell, all they need is the submitted link... They can just copy a representative paragraph from the source as the "summary" here.
SN's demonstrated aversion to hard science and lower-level technology stories, despite my repeated prodding, while selecting non-nerdy political flamebait this crap, dramatically reduces my interest in trying to contribute.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.