RAAAAAGE. Goddamnit. And I DO NOT get it. Solo contacting the kids via social media and taking them out for ice cream ought to be a super-firing no-second-chances that-is-IT offense.

And feel free to weaponize me if you need to, (i.e., if the group starts whining about being persecuted just like Christ): "My churchgoing Sunday school teaching wife also thinks this is bullshit and wants him gone."

There was a shooting threat at the college my dad works at this morning. They caught him pretty quickly, but still. Not loving this.

David and JZ, that's appalling. I'm sorry you have to go through so much bother to make your school safe for your daughter. Your district leadership is full of crap.

I'm glad your dad's ok, Dana.

Timelies all!

I'm sorry, David and JZ. Best of luck with this.

As you all might know, I am having a lot of dental work. Today, I had two fillings, which went well. When the blackboard off, I had this swollen rough lump under my tongue. After Googling like crazy with no real resu!ts, it has disappeared! I am glad I don't have tongue cancer!

That is some table flipping bullshit, David &JZ.

Zmayhem, is there any way the parents can, as a group, file an injunction against this man contacting any of the children singly, by internet or in person, off-campus? If the district is going to allow him to keep his job, then can he be restricted to the job description and prevented by law from any other form of communication? You and the other concerned parents might have to hire your own counsel to make it so, if it can be done.

I wish there was such a thing as smiting capability, and that you guys had it.

Dana, glad your dad's okay. And Sophia, sorry for the cancer scare, and glad it wasn't!

Yikes, Dana! Glad he's okay.

Bomb threat at the community college near me, btw. There's just too goddam much of this crap.

Doesn't his job allow him to supervise kids off campus? At the very least can you ask the school to reassign his duties such that he won't be allowed to do that?

I also think, if your parent/booster group is anything like the ones at my kids' schools, you'll get them riled up pretty quickly if you go to them with your evidence about the group he works for and their recruitment techniques, and why you think he's targeting your children.

But I also have to ask, what possible legal threats could the group hold over the school district? That makes no sense. He wasn't a tenured teacher, was he? Schools are allowed to fire secondary staff. There's something fishy there

There's just too goddam much of this crap.

WAAAY too much. And the package bombs in Austin? What the fuck, America?! Wake up!