She wasn't a teacher there very long, I reported her to the principal for those statements and other issues and she was fired.

While askye is, indeed, awesome, I have to hold on to a vision of the world where people don't get fired solely for their beliefs, even if they are wrong like a wrong thing. signed, loves being a tenured academic type

JZ - I wish some of my classmates reacted that nicely. Once she was fired a bunch of them told me I was mean and shouldn't have gotten her fired. She was a terrible teacher, she gave us a test that everyone failed because it was supposed to be 3 pages but she only gave us 2 and then graded it with the 3 page key and didn't seem to know there was a problem until students were asking why they failed.

This was a K-12 school so she was teaching that crap to middle school students. They were grateful I did something, they had complained about other issues but had been ignored.

While askye is, indeed, awesome, I have to hold on to a vision of the world where people don't get fired solely for their beliefs, even if they are wrong like a wrong thing.

but if your wrong belief endangers your students, is that permissible?

Sparky -- there was a lot more going on than just that. There was the test everyone failed, the fact she was constantly late to class, often leaving us locked out of the classroom and standing around. She tried to mark people absent because they got up out of their seat during class -- for any reason, such as throwing something in the trash or sharpening a pencil.

With the middle schoolers it was worse -- one of girl somehow hurt herself (I think she was accidentally stabbed by a pencil) and bleeding and the teacher wouldn't give the student permission to go to the nurse.

Plus she was a replacement teacher brought in during the middle of the year, the class I took was a one semseter class. We didn't have a teacher for the first few weeks and then she was fired before the end of the school year.

but if your wrong belief endangers your students, is that permissible?

How was she endangering the students? If she only expressed her beliefs, then I'm still in the free speech zone of things, and you fight what you believe are wrong ideas with the expression of your right ideas.

eta: For all the other reasons you list, askye, I'm glad she was let go.

Yikes, it sounds like Carrie White's mom as a health teacher.

As Spidra and juliana mentioned, you get great veggies in Alaska. I should have specified southeast Alaska, where it is lush and green but we get too much rain and not enough sun for most traditional garden veggies.

eta: I didn't mean this to be quite out of nowhere. It's a clarification of a post I made last night.

Remember when killing threads used to be exciting?

runs around naked

Wait, that's frightening, not exciting....

Haiku is so passe'.