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Remember the post about the temp teacher who was, according to himself, fired for “practicing wizardry?”
Remember alert reader jarbar who pointed out that the story sounded more than a little bit wet to him and that maybe it would be a good idea to hold back a bit until it had been verified by somebody other than Mr. Temp Teacher?
Well guess what? Jarbar was right. The twit wasn’t fired for making toothpicks disappear, he was fired for using language in class that would make sailors blush, being unable to control his class and for putting the students in charge.
Which is an immense relief to yours truly, even though it means that we have to apologize for the error and issue a correction. But that’s nothing. Loose shit happens, and we’ll have our Bullshit-Meter sent in for recalibration tomorrow. We’re just happy that it didn’t turn out to be a hysterical complaint from one of the 0.000001% of evangelicals who make the rest of us look like witch hunter generals. And they do exist, sadly, which is the only excuse we can come up with for not just ignoring the non-story in the first place.
So consider the story corrected and apology issued.
With our thanks to jarbar for keeping in touch and letting us know about the update.
(The original post has been updated too, in case somebody comes across it via Google or somewhere else).
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eh. goes to show that we are, in the final analysis, all too human.
May 18th, 2008 at 11:14 PMUsing
Yes, but also willing to acknowledge it and apologize when it’s in order.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:15 AMUsing
Aside from the story, it really stood out to me how a print journo tried to take a swipe at the internet as a news source in general. “See! See! Internet is unreliable! You better trust the good old-fashioned media!!”
May 19th, 2008 at 8:14 AMUsing
It is truly telling of our mistrust of the failed Publik Skool system when we here about something like this and think “Sounds like them.”
May 19th, 2008 at 9:55 AMUsing
mgnmfrc1, AINT THAT THE FUCKING TRUTH! I feel no shame for giving the original story a certain level of credence, as I am no stranger to similar stories of absolute nonsense from the schools.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:27 AMUsing
But…even though it was just a little from in Florida, the internet did get the district to explain themselves quickly.
Now if they could just explain all the women pedophiles in that one district. It’s either the water or I’m seeing a debacle on line with the Catholic Church scandal.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:18 PMUsing
Which is more than a little ironic since the link in the original article leads to the website of a MSM TV station.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:29 PMUsing
Well, your majesty, I think I’ll hold off on the retraction for just a bit. I expect this thing is eventually going to hit the courts, and at that point we may get the actual facts of the matter.
But in the meantime, a self-serving “explanation” from a school administration that had the ceiling fall in on them - “Well, okay, the “wizardry” happened, but that’s not reeeeely why we fired him…” coupled with an equally self-serving jouraljismistic cackle about how unreliable blogs and the internet are isn’t quite enough to merit a backtrack. Not yet, at least.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:35 PMUsing