Alabama geometry teacher suspended for "best angles to assassinate Obama" lesson

[WHAMPOM]

Not a Freudian slip than? Just can't get that ni@@a' lynching out of their systems in Alabama? Al-abama. Al-Obama. Obamans. That nickname should get their dander up!

 

[Patranus]

Which was and still is Obama at the time the lesson was given. That is a mighty fine little nit to be picking. This really is not appropriate no matter whether you like the current President or oppose him.

The president of a bank?
The president of a university?
A hypothetical president used in this lesson?

Not saying that the teacher used an appropriate example for his lesson but the above story has no connection to assassinating Obama.

I also find it funny that a UK paper states he was suspended after a national outcry yet this hasn't made any of the major news outlets.

 

[Linflas]

The president of a bank?
The president of a university?
A hypothetical president used in this lesson?

Not saying that the teacher used an appropriate example for his lesson but the above story has no connection to assassinating Obama.

I also find it funny that a UK paper states he was suspended after a national outcry yet this hasn't made any of the major news outlets.

Ok lets go with your theory that he said "President" and not Obama. Do you really think the head of BoA or Harvard was the immediate thought that the students had?

As for your UK point I found that a bit odd as well, it seems to be a bigger story in the UK media that here. All I saw here was an AP blurb and a Fox News story both of which had little detail. All they said was the Secret Service investigated it and found no credible threat.

 

[thegimp03]

Guardian link

You just can't make this stuff up! I don't know whether to cringe, or laugh at the stupidity, or both.

A senior taking geometry? Jesus, a little behind aren't we? I took geometry as a Freshman.

 

[JSt0rm]

Well it is Alabama.

What is a al-a-bama?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

The president of a bank?
The president of a university?
A hypothetical president used in this lesson?

Not saying that the teacher used an appropriate example for his lesson but the above story has no connection to assassinating Obama.

I also find it funny that a UK paper states he was suspended after a national outcry yet this hasn't made any of the major news outlets.

Why am I not surprise that you would attempt to defend this guy

 

[Throckmorton]

I thought when people hung Bush from trees it was protected political speech or satire? But I'll take the typical lib approach to this:

FAUX OUTRAGE!

A teacher hung Bush from a tree to teach botany?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Looks like this guy isn't a threat since the SS had a look at it. Still, it's a fumduck thing to and he deserved a nice vacation for it.

You don't make jokes in front of a classroom about assassinating a President without figuring your ass is going to get spanked.

 

[Kirby]

Well it is Alabama.

Jefferson county did go dem in 2008 though.

 

[alphatarget1]

I think that is pretty tasteless even though I despise the Obama presidency.

 

[MrEgo]

The president of a bank?
The president of a university?
A hypothetical president used in this lesson?

I think that's a reach, right there.

 

[sandorski]

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

[Red Dawn]

Jefferson county did go dem in 2008 though.

Obviously this yahoo teacher didn't.

 

[bob4432]

Looks like this guy isn't a threat since the SS had a look at it. Still, it's a fumduck thing to and he deserved a nice vacation for it.

You don't make jokes in front of a classroom about assassinating a President without figuring your ass is going to get spanked.

well what about the pres of AIG or Goldman Sachs?

 

[palehorse]

A teacher's personal politics has no place in the classroom, period.

Forget suspension, this man should be fired immediately.

 

[ayabe]

Well I'm glad some of you are being honest, doesn't matter who the POTUS is, that is not a teaching tool and isn't funny...at all.

Wasn't cool for Bush 43, isn't cool now, and won't be cool for Palin in 2012, oooppsss..

 

[Corn]

A teacher's personal politics has no place in the classroom, period.

Forget suspension, this man should be fired immediately.

Yep, the lack of common sense from this "teacher" should disqualify him from teaching ASAP.

 

[dahunan]

Question: Did he ever mention Obama's name?
(Doesn't sound like it from the article, sounds like he just said "the president")

I think he was re-enacting Oswald and had zero thought about really doing it in the present

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Yep, the lack of common sense from this "teacher" should disqualify him from teaching ASAP.

I'm not so sure. If it was Obama he needs his butt kicked, if it was an exercise to get people interested in geometry by recreating the "grassy knoll" scenario it's hard to justify giving him grief for that.

 

[MovingTarget]

This guys logic sounds familiar, I think he might be a poster here. Not naming any names, just saying

I can safely say that it wasn't me. A good dose of common sense, when applied to the situation, should've been enough for that teacher to realize he/she should use a different example for the students. A teacher's personal politics has no place in the classroom, especially in the subject of Geometry. There are plenty of other examples that could be used to engage the students in the classroom...

<----Teaches Geometry in AL.

 

[pcgeek11]

I was against it when it was Bush and I'm against it now. Fire the idiot, if he wants a human target make it a terrorist.

But you may hurt the terrorists feelings and make them feel unloved ... Oh wait ...

 

[werepossum]

Well I'm glad some of you are being honest, doesn't matter who the POTUS is, that is not a teaching tool and isn't funny...at all.

Wasn't cool for Bush 43, isn't cool now, and won't be cool for Palin in 2012, oooppsss..

LOL Palin in 2012? Just had to stir the puddin', didn't you!
I love Palin and I wouldn't vote for her. I think at this point the most she could do would be to join Ron Paul and Dennis the Menace in the kiddie seats. (I would have added Biden, but Obama yanked him up by his plugs into the big time.)

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I love Palin

She does the best impersonation of Tina Fey ever.

 

[Schadenfroh]

My Calculus I professor used examples involving babies being shackled to ladders and forced to drag them.

My Calculus II teacher tried to relate everything to Babylon V and eugenics.

But, what the geometry teacher did was asking for it.

 

[werepossum]

She does the best impersonation of Tina Fey ever.