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Controversial teacher keeps job
Denver Post ^ | 3/10/06 | Jennifer Brown, Allison Sherry and Annette Espinoza

Posted on 03/10/2006 7:42:57 PM PST by randita

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Cherry Creek social studies teacher Jay Bennish talks with the media, Friday March. 10, 2006, at a news conference where he was reinstated to his job at Overland High School. (Post / RJ Sangosti)

1 posted on 03/10/2006 7:42:59 PM PST by randita
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"Jay Bennish has promise as a teacher, but his practice and deportment need growth and refinement," said Moses.

"Jack the Ripper has promise as a surgeon, but his practice and deportment need growth and refinement," said Moses.

2 posted on 03/10/2006 7:48:00 PM PST by Socratic (I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.)
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Bennish had cited "eerie similarities" between Bush's State of the Union address and "things that Adolf Hitler used to say."

A person interested in "critical thinking' would attempt to quantify those eerie similarities. Unless by "critical thinking" he really means "critically speaking."

3 posted on 03/10/2006 7:50:37 PM PST by Nomorjer Kinov (If the opposite of "pro" is "con" , what is the opposite of progress?)
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Did anybody really think he would be fired?

He would only be fired if he

a) discussed Intelligent Design
b) was caught with a bible in his desk drawer; or
c) said the name "Jesus" in some context other than swearing.


4 posted on 03/10/2006 7:56:55 PM PST by CondorFlight
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If we're lucky, rastaman Bennish, will tie one on this weekend in celebration and show up on Monday morning stoned, as he has in the past. Then they can s***can him.


5 posted on 03/10/2006 8:03:18 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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6 posted on 03/10/2006 8:04:19 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (But even if he does not...)
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Get yer kids outa' that skool.


7 posted on 03/10/2006 8:04:22 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Di'ver'si'ty (adj.): A compound word derived from the root words: division; perversion; adversity.)
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To: randita
"I think people should be allowed to criticize me all they want. And they do," Bush said.

With all due respect Mr. President, teachers should teach factual statements such as: 2 x 2 = 4; a noun is a person , place, or thing; sentence structure; the Element Chart; how the nervous system works; documented historical events; how to draw up plans and build a wooden jewelry box; how to fix a car; what are ohms, amperes, and volts and what do they mean to each other; computer technology; physics; ect...

What they don't need is to be indoctrinated with radical, anti-American, socialistic, opinionated hate speech.

8 posted on 03/10/2006 8:13:11 PM PST by uptoolate
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To: randita

Fox News reported that he got fired this afternoon....hmmm


9 posted on 03/10/2006 8:19:43 PM PST by Proud Conservative2
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From hippie to pedophile with one haircut.


10 posted on 03/10/2006 8:21:10 PM PST by AmishDude
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Why did he cut his hair?


11 posted on 03/10/2006 8:22:39 PM PST by who knows what evil? (New England...the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st Century, and they're proud of it!)
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We have to realize that ALL of these publik skool morons ("teachers" and office pogues alike) are members of the same monopolistic union, the "National Education Association" which has nothing at all to do with education and everything to do with maintaining a stanglehold on government funding for skools w/o accountability and keeping left-wing losers like Bennish in their jobs filling young skulls full of mush with their left-wing bull$hit. (Anyone care to diagram the previous sentence?)


12 posted on 03/10/2006 8:30:04 PM PST by 43north (Liberals are obsessed by the vulgarity of their lives & the obscenity of their behavior.)
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Why did he cut his hair?

Hair provides a chemical record of any illicit substance that one might have ingested while the hair was growing. Just a guess.

13 posted on 03/10/2006 8:31:24 PM PST by Sooth2222
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I'm very excited to continue encouraging students to think critically, to encourage democratic values in our society, to promote social justice...

...Maybe I’ll even sprinkle in a little geography after I’ve achieved utopia.

14 posted on 03/10/2006 8:33:13 PM PST by Minn
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NOW he's a "social studies" teacher......sheesh....


15 posted on 03/10/2006 8:52:21 PM PST by goodnesswins ( "the left can only take power through deception." (and it seems Hillary & Company are the masters)
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To: uptoolate
What they don't need is to be indoctrinated with radical, anti-American, socialistic, opinionated hate speech.

Are you suggesting that both the MSM and the Democrat Party be prohibited from entering high school grounds?

16 posted on 03/10/2006 9:12:15 PM PST by catpuppy
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To: Sooth2222

Superb thinking. Absolutely superb.
Also, it would be interesting if a student recorded a teacher ranting about how the Bible condems homosexuality in class.
Just a thought.


17 posted on 03/10/2006 9:17:19 PM PST by mikeybaby (long time lurker)
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To: CondorFlight

Or put a Christmas tree up in his classroom. I would have bet a years pay he wouldn't get fired. He'll do the same crap again ..
I teach in NJ . I had a substitute kicked out after he was doing the same crap when he was filling in when people were absent. He did it to my class once and I told him off the next day when I came back . It took a bit of doing but I made a HUGE stink about it and they never brough him back after that ..I got plenty of dirty looks afterwards too.


18 posted on 03/10/2006 9:18:08 PM PST by binkdeville
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19 posted on 03/10/2006 9:18:13 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

If he does that they will put him on the board of education .


20 posted on 03/10/2006 9:20:36 PM PST by binkdeville
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