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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: 3, Insightful) by Lagg on Saturday August 30 2014, @02:25PM
Unlike most people when there is submitter opinion in the summaries I actually like it because let's not lie to ourselves, every single thing that is submitted here is going to have an element of opinion to it and sometimes what the submitter has to say is interesting. But in this case I think that this should have been removed and again since I usually love the submitter opinions this is not something said lightly. I also take offense to the implication that everyone who likes guns is diseased. I really expect better of someone who submits articles to a site like this who should understand why well engineered devices are very enjoyable to people like us and also understand why you shouldn't let politics interfere with that.
Plus on top of that the submitter kind of screwed up his own point in two sentences.
Then proceeds to rant about gun hobbyists being a disease and other such nonsense. I know the general response to people who yell "HEY GAIS I'M LEAVING THE SITE" is to ignore and deride them but in this case it would probably be wise to take it as an indicator.
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(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:18AM
I actually have no problem with opinions being attached along with the submissions, but the more opinion you allow into it, the less professional the submission looks, especially in a case like this, where it's nothing but opinion and rant with no substance.
What I would love to see is a second text area on the submission page for submitter commentary. Basically, you have the article submission itself, which should be written in a mostly neutral POV with stricter guidelines for good writing. Some light snark or humour as appropriate, but nothing excessively nasty; definitely no nastier than The Register would be, probably less so. This field would be subject to heavy editor slash-and-burn to meet guidelines, including merging multiple submissions and complete gutting of the content if necessary.
Things like the internet-soapbox ranting today would belong in the commentary section. This part would have no editing, would appear along with the story, but would not appear on the main page. Preferably it would appear as its own comment, subject to moderation, so that it can be downmodded if it's complete garbage.
Basically, the article submitter would get a free "first post", maybe have it tagged slightly differently ("Submitter Commentary" or something). As an extra bonus it might discourage the "frist psot" type crap because there's already a comment to jump-start conversations.