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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 Yates on Saturday August 30 2014, @01:36PM
I too am most disturbed that the editor did not remove the submitters editorial before sending this to the front page. I'm assuming of course LaminatorX did not add the editorial himself which would make me even more disturbed. One of the reasons news sources are supposed to remain neutral is to not lose half of your audience when you start putting out highly polarized opinions such as this, and SoylentNews does not have a large enough audience for such nonsense. At this point I would not be unhappy to see the offending text removed off the bottom and replaced with some kind of 'oops, sorry' message.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Fnord666 on Saturday August 30 2014, @04:40PM
I have not found a way to see the actual submission here on SN once it comes out of the queue. Anyone know where we can find it?
(Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Sunday August 31 2014, @02:33PM
Here it is: http://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=3574 [soylentnews.org]
We have a set of editorial guidelines and procedures to prevent this sort of mistake - and on this occasion they didn't work. However, the editors are spread around the globe and it is a holiday weekend in the US. Our internal inquiry to find out exactly how this happened, and to look at where and why the procedures didn't work will take several days because not all the editors involved will be back on before Monday. It has not been swept under the carpet and we will learn the necessary lessons.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @12:44PM
Problem is if he did remove it all the trolls and hypocrites would be crying "censorship!".
For the editors (and I'm not one of them) you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
For those that reckon they can do a better job, volunteer some time and prove it.