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English Teacher Banned for Writing Fiction

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday August 30 2014, @10:22AM   
from the stranger-than-truth dept.

SpockLogic writes:

"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.]

• Re:I Like the Commentary Re:I Like the Commentary (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @03:41PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 30 2014, @03:41PM (#87573)

  One of my primary griefs with Slashdot is that it's mostly overrun with libertarian ditto-heads on issues like economics, unions, single-payer health care, equality for women and minorities, guns, etc. When it started I was hoping that Soylent would have more informed commentary in regards to political issues; but have been pretty turned off in the last few weeks by it turning into the same, or worse, echo-chamber (such that I've been considering striking it from my bookmarks).

  If Soylent sets forward an explicit political philosophy that distinguishes it from Slashdot, such that it flushes out the right wingers (as seems to be the case based on a lot of comments in this thread), then that will be delightful and quite likely give it more legs in the long run.

  So let me see if I understand this correctly. You want all the people whose opinions you don't like chased off so that you don't get the echo chamber effect.

  No, wait, I think I have it! You want your own echo chamber! Like Huffington Post! Or Kuro5hin! Or maybe the Village Voice! Or Mother Jones! Or, these days, MSNBC! CNN!

  Maybe you'd also like lots of click-bait ending in stupid rhetorical questions such as: "The article submitter seems very sure of the case, but what do you think?" as if nobody would ever post a comment without it.

  Because heaven forbid you actually ever think about why people who disagree with you, do so.

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• Re:I Like the Commentary (Score: 2) by tathra on Saturday August 30 2014, @05:53PM

  by tathra (3367) on Saturday August 30 2014, @05:53PM (#87602)

  the word "winger" more implies extremism; you know, the kind of people who don't actually want to have a debate and don't care about facts, and only want to push their agenda no matter what. those are the people who drive off actual discussion and forcibly change places into echo chambers, because its impossible to have a discussion when nobody's listening.

  i don't want insane people from any end of the political spectrum to take up "ownership" of the site. this place needs to stay firmly in the middle, open to all ideas.

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