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!

I don't get what possible concern the school district could have either -- he's only a substitute, and he clearly violated explicit district policy regarding social media contacts between students and faculty without parental permission. I don't get why he hasn't been told flat-out that he is no longer allowed to sub, the end.

This is a district where for budget reasons all the younger teachers, the real fully certified ones who've been leading their classrooms all year, routinely get pink-slipped every spring and have to wait until just before school starts to find out if they're hired back. Why the hell is the district extending itself one inch for this asshole?

he's only a substitute, and he clearly violated explicit district policy regarding social media contacts between students and faculty without parental permission. I don't get why he hasn't been told flat-out that he is no longer allowed to sub, the end.

This sounds like something the local news might want to hear about.

And the package bombs in Austin?

Yep! Got family there, so of course I had to look at that story and make sure, just on the very remote chance that they were affected. Which they weren't, because the bomber is targeting black people. WTF.