Teachers stage fake gun attack on kids

charlotte.com ^ | 05/13/07 | AP

[stevie_d_64]

Like ood little defenceless victims should...

/big time sarcasm

Somebody needs to learn a new word before the week is out...To send a nice message to the rest of the dunderheads that think like this, before they believe this is a good idea to do something like this...

The word in “unemployment”...

[admiralsn]

I appreciate your kind words, but it is clear not everyone supports me. But that's ok, I've dealt with it before. I was not aware of the Frankfurt School, but after reading up on it it sounds an awful lot like what has happened to the United Methodist Church over the years- liberals taking over seminaries and churning out leftist ministers. I am battling that one too.

Let me be clear--- I abhor the NEA. In the state of Texas, we are not required to join any union, not even the NEA. (That seems to be a commonly misunderstood myth around here.) There are other non-union teacher organizations and I make every effort to get fellow teachers to join those when possible.

[mvpel]

It may or may not have been conducted ineptly; really can’t tell from the biased journalism. But it is not a crime nor do I wish to criminalize such behavior as a crime. If what Mary Winkler did was manslaughter this is nothing more than a lovetap. Why be so quick to criminalize every behavior you disagree with?

I'm not saying it should be against the law, I'm saying it already is against the law.

They assaulted these students under the provisions of the Tennessee criminal code. It's that simple.

[Harris]

I am assuming you are trying to argue that the following is applicable:

39-13-101. Assault.

(a) A person commits assault who:

(2) Intentionally or knowingly causes another to reasonably fear imminent bodily injury.

To say there might be a gunman in the area or even to have someone fake like a gunman does not establish that the teachers intended to cause fear of a bodily injury. Imminent? Take out the media hyped fear of a Columbine-type killer on the loose, and suppose the teachers said a killetr bear was loose. Would everyone panic and scream for criminal charges? Why not? Indeed the teachers may have been punking and hoping to cause fear but not fear of bodily injury and certainly not imminently.

It wouldn’t be criminal as a terrorist hoax nor would it be official misconduct.

Well I guess if you can’t say nappy headed ho then you can’t say anything.

[redpoll]

I’m a teacher. There’s no other way to express my feelings. These teachers are goddamn idiots. They deserve whatever comes their way, which should include loss of their teaching certificates, loss of their pensions, loss of their jobs, and loss of their reputations. What a stupid, stupid, stupid thing to do to a group of children under your care who trust you. Yes, if my son was in that class, the school district would be hearing from my attorney, too.

...and, speaking as a teacher, I have my plate full teaching kids how to read and write well. These teachers have time to pull this kind of stunt?

[mvpel]

What kind of fear does a 11-year-old have from a masked gunman at the door except the fear of imminent bodily injury?

[Oberon]

Imagine what would happen if some children sprung a fake gun attack on the teachers...

[polymuser]

I was not aware of the Frankfurt School...

Many teachers are not, and that's scary. Many here are not, so I've been trying to note it here as often as possible, especially when the question "What's happened to America?" comes up.

[admiralsn]

The odd thing is that I went to what I’d always considered a fairly liberal University. I based it on the area in which it is located and on some of the big-time donors who have supported it over the years and have their names all over it. However, my education degree was not terribly slanted. There were some liberal overtones, but they were not pushing an agenda. So I guess I admit to naivety as to just how permeated many Education departments are across the nation. I KNOW there are very slanted liberal colleges of education across the nation, but the extent of just how permeated they are, i.e. with the Frankfurt School, is a bit of an eye-opener. That’s not to say it can’t be changed, however.

[jamaly]

Another case of over-educated idiots running wild!

[polymuser]

I've spoken recently with a few church kids I know that are attending state education colleges, and they all report the same thing: a strong and overt leftist agenda (green, anti-war, homoaware, D-praising, unreligious, feminist, anti-conservative, etc.).

We support Campus Crusade, BattleCry and and any other efforts we can that help strengthen these young people's fight for real diversity, inclusion, tolerance, multiculturalism and free speech at our universities.

[pray4liberty]

You know as well as I do that nothing will happen to the staff or the administrators for this. They won't even be fired.

The parents should insist however, that the guilty, including the airhead principal, be made to wear placards in public declaring "I will not terrorize the children" and "I apologize to the community" and have FoxNews air it in lieu of being sued.

[reasonisfaith]

exactly right