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bintananth

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I really want to know what school she teaches at that allows the students to carry firearms.
HS I went to had a rifle range in the basement. Colleague of mine (he's very rural) says he says he regularly brought a shotgun to school during hunting season and nobody cared.

And then there's my grandmothers. There's a photo of them and a few other girls laying prone with rifles aiming at a target in one their high school's hallways. That was taken during WWII and likely a very common sight back then.
 

Bear Ribs

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HS I went to had a rifle range in the basement. Colleague of mine (he's very rural) says he says he regularly brought a shotgun to school during hunting season and nobody cared.

And then there's my grandmothers. There's a photo of them and a few other girls laying prone with rifles aiming at a target in one their high school's hallways. That was taken during WWII and likely a very common sight back then.
I don't think this teacher's talking about WWII, and her claim was that students were carrying guns in her class and she didn't feel safe giving them bad grades. I'll admit to being surprised students brought shotguns to school but for extreme rural areas I guess I can see it so there's that.
 

Husky_Khan

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Lets see how Baltimore Public Schools are doing today.

Looks like Enrollments are up.

Fox Baltimore said:
Lewis is currently suing Baltimore City Schools for wrongful termination. She claims North Avenue violated state whistleblower protection laws because when she got to Claremont in 2016, she began reporting what she found at the school under the previous principal, Kamala Carnes. She says, at the time she inherited the school, she had five deceased students enrolled on paper.

“Several staff members, they actually went through the roster with me and let me know who had attended, who never attended, who was deceased,” Lewis told Project Baltimore.

By keeping students enrolled, a school can increase the funding it receives from taxpayers. At Claremont, that included students who were dead.

“One of the teachers even mentioned to me that she attended the funeral,” said Lewis.

When Lewis took over, she says 130 students were enrolled at Claremont, but only about 30 were attending the school. Ghost students, as they’re called by educators, are only enrolled on paper.

So it's not just the creation of 'ghost students' to increase taxpayer funding, but also the creation of 'ghost classes' to push through students through their school system regardless of like... any sort of integrity. School Principal Angel Lewis apparently raised some issues about the entire 'ghost classes' and 'ghost students' thing and how odd it is you have students attending schools after attending their funeral. 🤷‍♀️

In response to these worrying allegations the public school system terminated her ass declined to renew her employment and she is suing the school system, citing among other things, whistleblower protections.


This is far from the first time such a scandal emerged in the Baltimore City Public School system and it is as of yet unclear how many more students the school system will have to raise from the dead to fill ghost classes to offset the costs of settling this lawsuit and its ensuing legal fees.
 

bintananth

behind a desk
I don't think this teacher's talking about WWII, and her claim was that students were carrying guns in her class and she didn't feel safe giving them bad grades. I'll admit to being surprised students brought shotguns to school but for extreme rural areas I guess I can see it so there's that.
She's also blowing things way out of proportion. If a kid is bringing a gun to school, and very few do, one of following likely applies:

- there's a legit reason that's not "I'm scared"
- they're scared of someone
- they're an idiot
- they're up to no good and no law or rule will stop them
 

Abhorsen

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So, did a touch more digging and found some more prompts from the book. Here's a list of problematic ones:
  • Choose how you will die.
  • Write a scene that begins: ‘It was the first time I killed a man.’
  • Describe your favorite part of a man’s body using only verbs.
  • You have a dream that you’ve murdered someone. Who is it, how and why did the murder happen, and what happens afterward?
  • You are a serial killer. What TV shows are on your DVR list? Why?
  • Write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom.
  • You have just been caught in bed by a jealous spouse. How will you talk your way out of this?
  • Write a sermon for a beloved preacher who has been caught in a sex scandal.
  • Describe a time when you wanted to orgasm but couldn’t.
  • Ten euphemisms for sex.
  • Write a letter from the point of view of a drug addict.
  • Drink a beer. Write about the taste.
  • Write an X-rated Disney scenario.
  • The first time you had sex.
Now in fairness, for what the book is designed to do (namely, broaden horizons for writing students to get them outside their comfort zone), those prompts seem ideal for adults. Someone then decided that meant it was good for AP writing. I don't think the school board could actually be charged for this, but they should resign. If a teacher did use such a prompt, then it could become a legal matter (for the teacher).
 

Husky_Khan

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So, did a touch more digging and found some more prompts from the book. Here's a list of problematic ones:
  • Choose how you will die.
  • Write a scene that begins: ‘It was the first time I killed a man.’
  • Describe your favorite part of a man’s body using only verbs.
  • You have a dream that you’ve murdered someone. Who is it, how and why did the murder happen, and what happens afterward?
  • You are a serial killer. What TV shows are on your DVR list? Why?
  • Write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom.
  • You have just been caught in bed by a jealous spouse. How will you talk your way out of this?
  • Write a sermon for a beloved preacher who has been caught in a sex scandal.
  • Describe a time when you wanted to orgasm but couldn’t.
  • Ten euphemisms for sex.
  • Write a letter from the point of view of a drug addict.
  • Drink a beer. Write about the taste.
  • Write an X-rated Disney scenario.
  • The first time you had sex.

You should post this in the NSFW Creative Writing section... generate some activity there for those of us that are only children in our minds.

  • Write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom.

As opposed to...?


This one is my favorite.
 

bintananth

behind a desk
Guys had rifles and shotguns in thier trucks at my highschool year round.
How many school shootings did yours have?

The ones my siblings and I went to didn't have any. These weren't the kinds of schools where a random kid with a gun would be met with "it's Tuesday" and a shrug instead of a 911 call and a SWAT team.

I would be shocked if there was a single week where there wasn't at least one firearm in a HS classmate's locker or car said HS classmate simply forgot was there.
 

Zachowon

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How many school shootings did yours have?

The ones my siblings and I went to didn't have any. These weren't the kinds of schools where a random kid with a gun would be met with "it's Tuesday" and a shrug instead of a 911 call and a SWAT team.

I would be shocked if there was a single week where there wasn't at least one firearm in a HS classmate's locker or car said HS classmate simply forgot was there.
Zero shootings.
 

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
Lets see how Baltimore Public Schools are doing today.

Looks like Enrollments are up.



So it's not just the creation of 'ghost students' to increase taxpayer funding, but also the creation of 'ghost classes' to push through students through their school system regardless of like... any sort of integrity. School Principal Angel Lewis apparently raised some issues about the entire 'ghost classes' and 'ghost students' thing and how odd it is you have students attending schools after attending their funeral. 🤷‍♀️

In response to these worrying allegations the public school system terminated her ass declined to renew her employment and she is suing the school system, citing among other things, whistleblower protections.


This is far from the first time such a scandal emerged in the Baltimore City Public School system and it is as of yet unclear how many more students the school system will have to raise from the dead to fill ghost classes to offset the costs of settling this lawsuit and its ensuing legal fees.

Any similarity between Baltimore school system and former Afghanistan National Army (and police) is purely coincidental.
 

Bear Ribs

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As opposed to...?

This one is my favorite.
The prompt after it is "Rewrite the sex scene until you're willing to show it to your mom."

Now in fairness, for what the book is designed to do (namely, broaden horizons for writing students to get them outside their comfort zone), those prompts seem ideal for adults. Someone then decided that meant it was good for AP writing. I don't think the school board could actually be charged for this, but they should resign. If a teacher did use such a prompt, then it could become a legal matter (for the teacher).
Unless the mayor was lying when he'd said he'd already spoken to a judge and was prepared to charge them, I'm inclined to think they can actually be charged. Though I also suspect said case would be weak, otherwise he would have just done it instead of offering the "resign or face a child porn trial" ultimatum.
 

Bear Ribs

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Oklahoma State forced a student to resign from their newspaper for writing an op-ed questioning mask mandates.

Farris also told YAF that other members of The O’Colly expressed their discomfort with the political subject matter and concern for working for a “conservative” paper

 

Zachowon

The Army Life for me! The POG life for me!
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90% chance he was there just to troll. It's the multicultural safe space on campus, and he went there with a giant "police matter" sticker.

He knew exactly what he was doing lol.
Maybe, he might have actually been there to work4
 

VicSage

Carpenter, Cobbler, Chirugeon, Dataminer.
Oklahoma State forced a student to resign from their newspaper for writing an op-ed questioning mask mandates.

Farris also told YAF that other members of The O’Colly expressed their discomfort with the political subject matter and concern for working for a “conservative” paper

In OKLAHOMA? A place that is mostly just pissed off that Texas said to piss off with masks first? The hell were they thinking?

P.S. Doctor McFarland? Doctorate in what, asshat? Your doctorate has no bearing on whether or not human rights are being violated, and attempting to excuse those actions by belittlement and appeal to your own authority does no good for your argument.
 

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