Thread: A Teacher's Prayer

These people take themselves waaaaaayyy to seriously.

Originally Posted by Commodore

These people take themselves waaaaaayyy to seriously.

So it's your position that it's perfectly acceptable for an educator to solicit prayers for the death of an elected official?

Alrighty then...

If you lived in, and were raising children in, Bergen county NJ (as I am) it would be okay with you that your teacher's union president had such poor judgement to send this email to 17,000 (SEVENTEENFVCKINGTHOUSAND) people?

Give me a freakin' break.

I agree that occasionally folks take themselves too seriously. ANd I agree that at times folks will make a mountain out of a molehill for political gain.

But as a parent who may soon be putting his child into the Bergen county school system I'd like to think that the teacher's union is presided over by someone who isn't such an astonishingly retarded idiot.

It was a freaking joke! Geez! I've seen the same joke except it ended with "Brett Farve is my favorite quarterback." Lighten up!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Mrs. M

It was a freaking joke! Geez! I've seen the same joke except it ended with "Brett Farve is my favorite quarterback." Lighten up!!!!!!

I am not claiming to know the politics involved between the Governor and the teacher’s union but I think it just might be a little contentious sometimes.

It will only take one of the 17,000 people who received the email to get the idea that exercising their second amendment right and killing the governor just might be OK.

In any case, it is in such bad taste and such a colossal error in judgement that do you really want this guy leading the people who will be shaping the young minds of all the students in their care?

Speaking from experience - the leader of the teachers' union has zero impact on how one teaches.

Originally Posted by soot

So it's your position that it's perfectly acceptable for an educator to solicit prayers for the death of an elected official?

Alrighty then...

You do remember who was president for the previous 8 years don't you?

This is tame by comparison.

I laughed. But I have a disturbing humour. I'm a terrible person.

Originally Posted by Commodore

You do remember who was president for the previous 8 years don't you?

This is tame by comparison.

I'm not following you.

This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with who is or was president or anything that's happened over the past eight years.

If your argument is that two wrongs make a right or something like that then I simply disagree with you. Otherwise I have no idea what you're driving at.

If one of the people I manage sent an email to 17,000 people asking that they pray for the death of anyone, joking or not, it would cause me to seriously question their judgement to the extent that I would start looking for ways to terminate and replace that employee. If my kid sent an email to 17,000 people asking that they pray for the death of anyone I'd fan his ass.

I fail to see why this guy gets a free pass to tell lousy jokes, demonstrate deplorable judgement, make a mockery of a leadership office that potentially effects my child's future, and embarass himself by acting like a douchebag just because "of the president we had for the past 8 years".

Originally Posted by soot

I'm not following you.

This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with who is or was president or anything that's happened over the past eight years.

If your argument is that two wrongs make a right or something like that then I simply disagree with you. Otherwise I have no idea what you're driving at.

If one of the people I manage sent an email to 17,000 people asking that they pray for the death of anyone, joking or not, it would cause me to seriously question their judgement to the extent that I would start looking for ways to terminate and replace that employee. If my kid sent an email to 17,000 people asking that they pray for the death of anyone I'd fan his ass.

I fail to see why this guy gets a free pass to tell lousy jokes, demonstrate deplorable judgement, make a mockery of a leadership office that potentially effects my child's future, and embarass himself by acting like a douchebag just because "of the president we had for the past 8 years".

He's a politician, doing what, in this case, bad politicians, do. He's never going to see a classroom, if he ever has. He's just a union thug.

Now if you don't want to support these unions, you know what to do in November.

Lame and not very classy.

Originally Posted by Commodore

He's a politician, doing what, in this case, bad politicians, do. He's never going to see a classroom, if he ever has. He's just a union thug.

Now if you don't want to support these unions, you know what to do in November.

Why wait til November?

I've got a phone and email and this is a local issue.

Making the mayor's life miserable got me a speed bump, it might get me a new teacher's union president too.

Originally Posted by soot

So it's your position that it's perfectly acceptable for an educator to solicit prayers for the death of an elected official?

Alrighty then...

If you lived in, and were raising children in, Bergen county NJ (as I am) it would be okay with you that your teacher's union president had such poor judgement to send this email to 17,000 (SEVENTEENFVCKINGTHOUSAND) people?

Give me a freakin' break.

Mrs. M was right. Its a really old internet joke and has been around in one form or another for a while now. Not even Rush thought it was something to take seriously and if there ever was not a friend of the teacher's union its Rush.

There are other things the teacher's unions do that are far more worriesome than this funny joke. Yes, it made me laugh.

tashi deleks,

M

Originally Posted by RDK

It will only take one of the 17,000 people who received the email to get the idea that exercising their second amendment right and killing the governor just might be OK.

:rolleyes: Please, the right to bare arms does not include the right to commit murder. If someone were motivated "by this email" to kill the governor I would be more upset that such a person was teaching in the first place, since only teachers received the email.

In any case, it is in such bad taste and such a colossal error in judgement that do you really want this guy leading the people who will be shaping the young minds of all the students in their care?

:rolleyes: Anyone dealing with children or the education of children needs to have a healthy sense of humor. A little dark humor can help us get through difficult situations and conditions, especially in these dark times.

tashi deleks,

M