Posted on 09/02/2014 8:35:52 AM PDT by chessplayer
A 23-year-old teacher at a Cambridge, Maryland, middle school has been placed on leave and—in the words of a local news report—"taken in for an emergency medical evaluation" for publishing, under a pseudonym, a novel about a school shooting. The novelist, Patrick McLaw, an eighth-grade language-arts teacher at the Mace's Lane Middle School, was placed on leave by the Dorchester County Board of Education, and is being investigated by the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office, according to news reports from Maryland's Eastern Shore. The novel, by the way, is set 900 years in the future.
Sheriff Phillips told the newspaper that, in addition to a K-9 sweep of the school (!), investigators also raided McLaw's home. "The residence of the teacher in Wicomico County was searched by personnel,” Phillips said, with no weapons found. “A further check of Maryland State Police databases also proved to be negative as to any weapons registered to him. McLaw was suspended by the Dorchester County Board of Education pending an investigation and is no longer in the area. He is currently at a location known to law enforcement and does not currently have the ability to travel anywhere.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
A long long time ago.
FMCDH(BITS)
1st amendment freedom of speech issue. The T should be getting ready to sue them blind.
I guess he's "cooling his heels" in a jail cell somewhere. Well, that's what we'd call it if he had actually committed a crime.
Where is that Thought Police graphic when you need it.
Combined Nanny State and Maryland "Freak State" PING!
I hear Paul Harvey’s voice now saying ‘here is the rest of the story’.
I am forever the cynic.
Did the guy whose video caused the Benghazi deaths ever get out of jail? /s
Thanks for the ping!
“Amazon”
Ah, yes. Read about any of THEIR tyrannic business practices? You’d be amazed to learn what vendors must endure in order for customers to get their ‘junk’ from a place they believe has the ‘best deals’. It’s depressing, and represents the epitome of GREED in our world.
Somewhere in the great beyond Rand, Huxley and Orwell watch these events and nod knowingly to each other...
Are you posting to the right person? I don’t remember saying anything about Amazon. I do buy from them, of course.
Oh, sorry, I now see my post. It’s a somewhat old thread and I thought this was about a new one on Hemingway. Sorry!
“Oh, sorry, I now see my post. It’s a somewhat old thread and I thought this was about a new one on Hemingway. Sorry!”
No problem.
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