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Mocking teachers will lead to firing in 3...2...1
Posted on September 30, 2006 6:21 AM
Talk about comedy gold. A school superintendent, Richard Mitchell, in Chicago videotaped interviews with new teachers. So far no big deal. Until the editing began...
School Board President Evelyn Gleason was one of many outraged at the video.It gets better...
“We haven’t begun to feel the ramifications from this,� she said. "These teachers are presented as killers, as strippers, as anger management, as drug abusers. I just don’t see the humor in that."
She also didn't see the humor in a second videotape that was put on the district web site.Unfortunately he'll have to build a relationship with an attorney, probably. Can you imagine if some 16-year-old smartass student did this? There would be Chicago cops kicking in the door, confiscating computers, cuffing the kid and dragging him/her off to jail, and someone like Mitchell would be thundering about "zero tolerance" policies, free speech be damned.
"Stress is really a concern and everybody deals with it in different ways,� Mitchell said as he holds a martini glass.
Mitchell said he will remove it from the Web site immediately. He said he thought it was funny and a way to build relationships through humor.
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