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Substitute teacher fired over racy messages to student
''Put on something sexy,'' one read. Another: "Pretty black girl, you make me want to come through this phone and bite you." The girl's mother correctly notes that "the texts weren't school-related." (Miami Herald)
March 20, 2008 | Permalink
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Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Mar 20, 2008 11:27:33 AM
""Pretty black girl, you make me want to come through this phone and bite you.""
I'm using that line!
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 20, 2008 11:29:49 AM
thats the line i used to get my ex wife to marry me!!
cept she bit me..
Posted by: chris n cali | Mar 20, 2008 11:31:58 AM
ALWYS LOOKING FOR A NEW HOT LINE TO USE.....LOL
Posted by: ULTRA | Mar 20, 2008 12:09:13 PM
''My concern is, so what if he leaves this school, what if he goes somewhere else and does this?'' Pascal said.
Ok, if he does, we will deal with that too.
Or do you want to just go ahead and chop off his balls like most women do after an inappropriate remark? Vindictive bitches......
Posted by: Ted | Mar 20, 2008 12:21:21 PM
Ted, if the recipients were women, I'd say your idea has some validity. But they were in fact teenagers, and the messages weren't from a boyfriend but an authority figure. Not good. Call me vindictive, but as the mother of a teenager girl, I'm having a hard time convincing myself this assclown deserves to keep his balls.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 20, 2008 12:45:44 PM
My wife is white, but I'm still texting her that right now!
Posted by: beavis | Mar 20, 2008 12:51:40 PM
Boy, I wish we held law enforcement officers to the same standards of behavior as we seem to hold teachers!
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | Mar 20, 2008 1:02:55 PM
Sean, we do! They're all STUPID!!
Posted by: twerp | Mar 20, 2008 1:22:28 PM
More ignorance out of school employment. Surprise
Posted by: Cherie | Mar 20, 2008 1:37:23 PM
Oh Ted honey
"Or do you want to just go ahead and chop off his balls like most women do after an inappropriate remark?"
We don't chop them off--we make a slit in the pouch and scoop them out with surgical tool that looks like a razor-edged spoon.
That way you have somewhere to keep your spare change.
Jingle Jingle
Posted by: nellagain | Mar 20, 2008 2:25:54 PM
"We don't chop them off--we make a slit in the pouch and scoop them out with surgical tool that looks like a razor-edged spoon."
EWWW!!! That's what happened to my dog! Blech!
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 20, 2008 2:55:52 PM
We don't chop them off--we make a slit in the pouch and scoop them out with surgical tool that looks like a razor-edged spoon.
I thought you only did that when you get married.
Posted by: Naga Please! | Mar 20, 2008 3:18:22 PM
Just as a minor aside: the perp offered this girl "community service hours" in exchange for her "help" regarding the football team.
Kinda wondering now why she NEEDED community service hours.
And sorry, "disrespected" is another one of those "words" that is nothing but poor English grammar at work, right up there with "conversate" and "on accident".
Posted by: msgelter | Mar 20, 2008 6:25:20 PM
Some high schools require all students to do "community service" or "volunteer" hours as a condition of graduation. So Ms. Gelter's question may be like asking "Kinda wondering now why she NEEDED to pass math."
Also, if you're going to criticize people's grammar, starting a sentence with "Kinda wondering..." is poor tactics.
Posted by: Vicki | Mar 20, 2008 7:23:29 PM
Vicki:
Sorry, but I sent seven kids through high school and none of them were required to do "community service". I guess I was asking why such a thing would have been required, since it's outside my realm of experience, and is not a part of educational requirements for the state in which I live.
And there's a difference in using an expression like "kinda" as vernacular in a casual form of communication such as this forum, and using a word like "disrespected" when talking to police because you really think it's a real word.
Posted by: msgelter | Mar 20, 2008 7:39:41 PM
'My daughter felt disrespected,'' Pascal said Thursday. *wince* This mangling of the English language has become so common, its usage so ubiquitous, that I fear it's only a matter of time before it becomes officially acceptable.
"Pascal said Wilson asked for her daughter's cell number so he could contact her regarding help with the football team."
What the hell does this mean? How could she "help" the football team?
"He offered the 16-year-old community service hours for her help."
And what the hell does this mean? Would helping a football team (and god knows how she'd go about doing that) be considered community service? Seems odd to me.
Posted by: Dave | Mar 21, 2008 4:11:45 AM
About the community service:
High schools today can offer different diplomas depending on the student's goals and abilities. Here in Virginia as well as Georgia, they offer a standard diploma which is nothing more than "general studies" but still kicks hard in the science and math.
There is a mid-level diploma which requires some foreign language as well, and the advanced diploma which is designed to be most beneficial to students planning to attend a four-year college. Lots of science, lots of math, lots of foreign language, and a community service requirement.
Even back in '90 when I was applying to colleges, every major college had a section on the application for the student to detail community service deeds. By making it part of the high school diploma, schools can open doors to many CS opportunities the students may not already know about.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 21, 2008 5:11:52 AM
Community service is occasionally a HS graduation requirement (in specific schools if not in whole states.) It's a consideration for college entrance. It's also a requirement for National Honor Society membership and opens up many scholarship opportunities.
Ms Gelter,
How is it that "kinda" is acceptable as "vernacular in a casual form of communication" with us (on the subject of grammar no less,) but "disrespected" is NOT acceptable as "vernacular in a casual form of communication?"
It occured in an actual conversation (the very definition of casual form of communication,) without the benefit of editing before clicking a 'submit' button and on a subject completely unrelated to proper language usage.
Posted by: Tank | Mar 21, 2008 6:35:22 AM
Community service hours are also often noted as "volunteer work" on transcripts. As a ski patrol member, I know the high school kids who work on our patrol record their time as community service, as it is volunteer.
Posted by: Lou Ford Prefect | Mar 21, 2008 6:51:59 AM
Dave, if you have tears prepare to shed them now:
"disrespect" as verb formation has *already* made it. It's in the American Heritage Dictionary "she disrepected her elders"
Its still lousy usage, clunky on the ear, and as graceful as giraffe in high heels.
conversate!!!! Bleech. That's as bad as hearing the donors "doned" things.
On of the schools had a "community service" requirement for civics course. It was great fun finding projects and activities that roughly qualified as "civic" but at the same time would irk the doofus teaching civics. I helped establish a NORML chapter.
Posted by: nellagain | Mar 21, 2008 7:17:48 AM
Nell, I've just wept a river of tears:( I suppose the only thing left to do at this point is to build a bridge and get over it.
Posted by: Dave | Mar 21, 2008 7:25:22 AM
