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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I’m prejudiced I guess, but I just never understood the earring thing with guys, even when a friend did it many years ago.
Of course I never accepted females having their ears pierced or anyone getting tatoos either.
If he was a lesbian gym teacher and had sex with her, it would have been okay.
Good grief!
if you slip on a banana peel is it a Freudian slip?
What about pointed sticks?
"Suppose he's got a bunch?"
Oh, for Pete's sake. Are you serious. Is this what we've sunk to? Teacher touches child with banana; child is embarrassed. Teacher is suspended.
If he'd touched her with a picture of a bullet and been suspended, outrage would erupt here. But since he's probably a pointy-headed little gay guy teaching Freud, zero-tolerance is suddenly the new norm.
If that had happened to my daughter, she would have stabbed him with a pencil. Seriously.
(The class bully found that out the hard way)
the teacher has huge gauges in his ears....so my question is how gay is he???? This is just another disgusting example of the sexualization of our youth by the Freudians among us
True.
And yet, most people think these people are “heroes”.
Good Lord.
That shows a scene from Animal House where they are talking about ...cucumbers, and how sensuous/sensual they can be.
Yes in college not high school.
My comment was to the word....”sensous”
I misunderstood. Sorry.
I guess it’s one of the new words in a Freepers vocabulary...this is series, this is Hugh!
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