Pay too high?

A Fark headline...


While we were busy debating whether or not 50k was too much to pay a teacher, CEO pay rose to an average of 9.6 million per year. So there's that

Teacher Fired for Silly Magic Trick

Seems like I'm focusing on the generic stupidity of the human race with my posts today (see previous two posts). It just flabbergasts me that we live in an age of great scientific discoveries and such great human advancements in fields like medicine and space travel, that we actually have people with the mentality of the basic Neanderthal. But it seems as if they are in great numbers on our planet.

Wizardry in the classroom
May 6, 2008

from within the crainium by joke du jour

I'll avoid the obvious Harry Potter riff.
Teacher Fired for Magic Trick, County Calls It "Wizardry"

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. -- A Florida substitute teacher says his job disappeared after doing a magic trick in front of his students. Substitute teacher Jim Piculas made a toothpick disappear, then reappear in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land O' Lakes, Florida. The Pasco County School District says there were several other performance issues, but none compared to his "wizardry."

"I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue. You can't take any more assignments. You need to come in right away.' I said, 'Well, Pat, can you explain this to me?' 'You've been accused of wizardry,'" Piculas explained.

Religion Rules

Read the clip - I don't know what else there is to say about human stupidity, despite the potential for intelligence, that hasn't already been said by someone.

A community college instructor in Red Oak claims he was fired after he told his students that the biblical story of Adam and Eve should not be
literally interpreted.

Steve Bitterman, 60, said officials at Southwestern Community College sided with a handful of students who threatened legal action over his remarks in a western civilization class Tuesday. He said he was fired
Thursday.

"I'm just a little bit shocked myself that a college in good standing would back up students who insist that people who have been through college and have a master's degree, a couple actually, have to teach that there were such things as talking snakes or lose their job," Bitterman said.

Via the J-Walk Blog