Eat your vegetables, too.
Posted on 01/24/2006 2:49:18 PM PST by RockinRight
Steelers fan-instructor makes teenager sit on floor, tells classmates to pelt him
An ethnic studies high-school teacher and die-hard Steelers fan in Pittsburgh has "humiliated" one of his students who wore a Denver Broncos jersey to class, making the boy sit on the floor and having his classmates pelt him with paper.
According to a report in the Denver Post, Joshua Vannoy, 17, showed up for his midterm test sporting a John Elway No. 7 Broncos jersey. Not only did his teacher at Beaver Falls High School, John Kelly, make him take the test while sitting on the floor, he had the teen sit in a circle of desks and told others in the class – under threat of losing points on the exam – to throw paper wads at him.
"I was humiliated and shaking. I couldn't finish my test," Vannoy told the paper.
Kelly defended his actions, saying he had warned students not to wear a team jersey other than the Steelers to class. The teacher claims he was "just messing around" with the boy.
According to the Post, Vannoy claimed Kelly grabbed him by the neck of his jersey when he tried to sit in his chair and told him he would give him a zero on the exam if he didn't sit on the floor. Kelly told the 12 other students that part of their midterm was that they had to throw paper at "the stinking Denver fan" – or lose points.
"Some threw the paper at me, some threw it at the ground," Vannoy is quoted as saying.
Kelly claimed he didn't threaten Vannoy's grade or grab his shirt, adding, "When you are joking and everyone's laughing, it's obvious. … It was silly fun. I can't believe he was upset."
The teacher claims he took similar action when a ninth-grade student recently showed up in class wearing a Peyton Manning Indianapolis Colts shirt.
Principal Thomas Karczewski was scheduled to talk to Kelly about the incident today, the Post reported.
Vannoy's mother, Virginia, wants her son to be allowed to retake the midterm exam.
That's one heck of a Steelers fan.
Therein lies the problem.
Did you see the name of the course? It is a joke course. The exams in such a class are not that serious.
I caught that after posting.
I'm a Steelers fan (For the next 3 weeks) but I fervently hope that Denver beats the snot out of Pittsburgh...just to get under this a-hole's skin.
OK. Pull if you must! Sorry.
Waaa???
I can't believe he was upset - I can't believe anyone is a Steelers fan - go Cowboys!
When the heck did ethnic studies become a class in high school? I graduated less than 10 years ago and I don't recall that being on the list. I guess things like the quadrivium just aren't important these days.
LOL...I am rooting for the Steelers...but only because I liked seeing them beat Denver...
Eat your vegetables, too.
This is wrong. Unless he wore a Redskins jersey or a Dook Basketball jersey.
Heh. Well, I was born and raised in Beaver County (where this happened) and I can tell you that people take football and the Steelers VERY seriously there. It was much, much worse in the 70's. LOL
I don't know. It sounds like the teacher thought it was all in fun but the kid didn't take it that way.
These are small towns with small schools, where we used to get half-days for the first day of hunting season.
Everybody knows each other and everyone's family (nobody usually moves TO Beaver Falls). I think this was *perhaps* made into a bigger issue than it actually was by the media.
JMO.
Seems like they were messing with him. Still doesn't "smell" right though.
Sorry. Lost my mind for a minute. Forgot the lineup for SBLX.
Oh boy! The principal is going to "talk" to Kelly.
That'll sure straighten things out, yezzir!
If it doesn't, they'll have to give Kelly the ultimate (liberal) punishment - set him on a chair in the middle of the room while they wring their hands at him for 15 minutes!
(To make the punishment REALLY intense, they also go "Tsk, tsk, tsk!")
(/sarc.)
His liberal teachers have been telling him forever that no matter how he looks, feels or even what is sexual orientation is, you should be respected.
Reality bites!
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