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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: 2) by dcollins on Saturday August 30 2014, @03:26PM
Post-strikeout-edit: Oh, well, so much for that (sigh).
(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:37AM
I don't think the problem was that the submitter commentary failed to match echo-chamber expectations; it was problematic because it was poorly written and completely off-topic, and would have been modded down as off-topic if it had been in a separate comment.
For example, myself: I like seeing discussion from different sources and different opinions, including ones I'd never agree with, because it encourages critical thinking, but there was nothing of that in the submission. It was irrelevant, off-topic, and tainted a story that could have sparked some interesting discussion. Thanks to the submission's soapbox-hobo style ranting, we lost the opportunity to have insightful discussion on TFA itself, because everyone focused on the submission itself being a mess.
If it had been written better, and attached to a submission that it would be on-topic for, I would have had no problem with the submitter's opinions being expressed, regardless of whether I agree or not. I do, however, think SN should provide some kind of separation of article submission and submitter commentary during the submission process, with the commentary part being subject to moderation and not shown as part of the front-page.