Posted on 04/21/2016 11:41:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A New Jersey high school teacher was forced to resign this month for showing his class a popular John Oliver clip that urged viewers to “Make Donald Drumpf Again.”
The “Last Week Tonight” bit, which lampoons presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s ancestral surname, has been viewed more than 24 million times on YouTube since February.
But despite the massive exposure, humorless Middletown South HS brass still pushed out teacher Joe Ventre after getting complaints from a thin-skinned parent who learned about the screening from her child, sources told The Post.
“It’s a travesty,” said district parent Kathi Van Zandt, the sister of musician and actor Steven Van Zandt. “It’s just ridiculous.”
Administrators told Ventre to beat it at the end of the school year, sources said. He agreed to step down this coming July....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
No. Much more important to denigrate the evil demon Donald Trump...
What a shock. A teacher fired for showing liberal propaganda.
Without knowing what subject matter he regularly teaches and the purpose of showing the video to students, one cannot say what he should be teaching.
What a yellow rag! “Thin-skinned parent” “humorless Middletown South HS brass” - and this from the Post...I expected better.
There is no excuse for the teacher’s behavior, nor the way the Post reported it.
Ha! Public schools are stupid factories. Losers..!
But no one was fired for singing praises to Obama.
If the schools only had more money, they wouldn’t need to base their curriculum on Youtube videos.
I don’t care if the teacher taught knitting
There was a time in this country when we were in a world war. Many German-Americans, in fear of being interred or losing their jobs and homes, hid their family Bibles and rushed to change their names as an outward sign of loyalty to the USA. For years after the war, having a German surname was a handicap.
promoting bigotry -to children- towards someone of German ancestry simply for changing their name to an anglicized version, is exactly the same as promoting bigotry towards someone of Cuban ancestry for changing their name to “Ted” or someone of India ancestry for changing their name to “Jim”.
The school made the right call.
“A New Jersey high school teacher was forced to resign this month for showing his class a popular John Oliver clip that urged viewers to “Make Donald Drumpf Again.”
Nothing new here. Everyone knows you cant make fun of liberals.
It could cost you your job and nasty little people will
verbally attack you. Play it safe, make fun of the
conservative. You get away with that because everyone knows
northeastern moderate trumps conservatisum./s
I loved the Oliver video, and if this isn’t a napl I don’t know what is.
Please make it a napl, señor slings.
You’re right; enemedia at its best.
Think this jack-ass had any criticism for Otoken?
“It’s a travesty,” said district parent Kathi Van Zandt, the sister of musician and actor Steven Van Zandt. “It’s just ridiculous.”
Well, if Steven Van Zandt’s sister says so, I guess we should just let it slide.
I’d have no problem locking the guy up for life.
I’ don’t get why leftist idiots (and a few idiot conservatives) find calling him Drumpf is such an insult. This is the dumbest election cycle ever.
It's about 2/3rds of the way down the top page.
Was it Faulkner who said, "The past is never dead. It isn't even past." The left are anal-retentive past-worshippers, grievance holders, tribalists — always trying to redress past wrongs by holding entire ethnic groups responsible for the actions or their long-dead ancestors, over which today's descendents have no control. It's the antithesis of "progressive."
Let's see:
If ONE Marine pastes a Bible quotation "No weapon formed against me shall stand" on her computer monitor, she can be court-martialed.
if ONE student is a male-to-female pre-op transgender, all the little girls in the school and for that matter in the United States should have to share a bathroom and locker room.
And if ONE customer wants a gay wedding, all bakers, photographers and florists in the United States should have to agree to supply their wedding or face huge fines or else close their business and let their children do without.
Or if ONE employee is a person of color, no one in the United States may say things like "niggardly", "racoons in the basement" or "he's in a black mood today" without losing their jobs.
But this teacher? That's different.
I understand all of that. What I don’t know is the purpose of showing the video to the students. Without that, I cannot make a fully informed conclusion.
Your conclusion is based on the assumption that the teacher had a nefarious purpose. You may be correct, but you don’t know that based on the information contained in the article.
If he taught “cultural studies” and showed the video to point out the lesson that you just outlined, you might be fine with it. If he taught “media communications” and the purpose was to demonstrate how a satirical news show influenced a social media trend (#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain), I might be fine with it.
The point is, we don’t have all the facts.
Typical public schoolteacher...
There is absolutely nothing produced, made, or excreted by that doosh John Oliver that has any redeeming cultural or educational value.
My bro in law loves him, and so I have had time to view his product. It is based on resentment, envy, and hatred of conservatives.
It is typical millennial fare, short on facts and reason, but big on emotion, feelings, and “gotcha” type insults.
If I saw him getting strung up I would not stop it. I’d call it justice.
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