Posted on 05/21/2013 1:51:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A US teacher has returned to work after a three-day suspension for allegedly touching a girl with a banana during a class on Freudian psychology.
A discipline letter said Florida teacher Jonathan Hampton was suspended without pay last week after he "rubbed a student's head and neck area with a banana" during a lecture about "cylinder objects, phalluses and/or sex symbols", Click Orlando reported.
A school district spokesman said the Freudian topic of the class was district approved but using the prop to touch a student was inappropriate.
He said the girl's parents complained because she felt embarrassed and many other students felt Hampton's advanced class became uncomfortable with "excessive frequency".
Hampton's stepfather Mark Fiedelholtz, who is also a lawyer, disputed the possible sexual connotation of the banana.
"According to my son … he doesn't recall ever touching the student with the banana, but if he did it would be to get their attention," Mr Fiedelholtz said.
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Whatever that means.....................
Look at which ear has the earring.
Remember, left is right; right is wrong.
I’m just sayin’...
He needs touching with a baseball bat.
“First of all, you force him to drop the banana, next, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him helpless!”
is that an arrest warrant in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
during a lecture about “cylinder objects, phalluses and/or sex symbols”,
Freud was a sexual deviant why are they teaching this kind of class in a high school?
You have heard of the concept of a "joke," right?
I think the blue wristband means he does oral. They allow gay symbolism by teachers in school as well?
Freud was a sexual deviant why are they teaching this kind of class in a high school?
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Because the Kinsey Reports cirruculum had not yet been received.
(do I really need a sarc tag?)
You don’t think Freud is an appropriate topic for study? He’s one of the cornerstones of modernism.
How about in a biology class?
Evidently his banana wasn’t appealing.
That’s a simplification. Haven’t read much Freud have you?
Yes, my share. The Mrs has two graduate psychology degrees.
Point being this is not high school material. Other than a passing reference I never read his theories until college.
If you have a Psychology class then leaving Freud out is like leaving Newton out of a Physics class. Even Literature courses have to present an acquaintance with him.
The homo mentally ill are not your usual “teachers.”
I dunno about the comparison. Most welfare recipients at least do no harm.
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