You know, I'm as against teaching Creationism in public schools as the next person, but I'm going to take a radical stance and say that burning images into students' arms is the worse offense here. One is ideologically inappropriate, the other is assault.

And this was actually my first point in the comments. Something along the lines of, "Let's not skip right over the assault part."

I'd say something has an abnormal reading, msbelle. But isn't this a new doctor? Maybe she's overly cautious? Anyway, I hope it's nothing.

so, I had blood taken on Monday for annual check on stuff tests. My doctor wants me to come in to go over them. She said nothing about this on Monday, in fact mentioned having the results mailed to me. This means something is up, doesn't it?

I've had to do this twice and it's been nothingish. Meaning something was off and they needed more, or I needed a change in habit/diet.

Yeah, it could just be "your cholesterol is a little high, and if you don't want to end up on meds, here's the diet/exercise stuff that will get it under control" or something.

You know, I'm as against teaching Creationism in public schools as the next person, but I'm going to take a radical stance and say that burning images into students' arms is the worse offense here. One is ideologically inappropriate, the other is assault.

I'm with this.

Happened to me once when i had elevated levels of protein from working out heavily the day before. I would try to not worry about it.

No, I mean the guy who was saying teaching on the theme of "racism is bad, mmkay!" in TKAM was teaching a belief, was saying that skirts close to teaching religion.

Surely history teaches us that morality and religion have no relation to each other.

Ok, now I'm back to being confused. Does this "society doesn't have a problem with a teacher expressing the position that racism is wrong (in fact, I have taught lessons on that). Society also says teachers will be neutral on religion. As long as teachers know wha...t is acceptable and what is not, they shouldn't have problems." read the way I think it does?

Ginger, not no relation, but I don't think it has an absolute relation. As an atheist I'd be offended by a suggestion that it was. Not that that doesn't happen all the time anyway, I'm just not allowed to be offended by it.

ok, does "burning crosses into students arms" mean he was BRANDING MINORS? Because that shoulda got him fired ASAP.

ok, trying not to worry. Worrying will not make anything better or worse anyway.

I haven't looked at this yet, but here's tons of info on the teacher, from Panda's Thumb: [link]