College professor suspended for posting picture of daughter with Game of Thrones shirt, zero toleran - Polidicks

I hope he gets a lawyer and makes an example of this incredibly daft dean.

This is a joke It's a joke right? Nobody is this stupid.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;44592484]What is even with the whole zero-tolerance thing? Is it some kind of gentlemen's agreement? Legislation? Following a precedent from a common law case?[/QUOTE] It's literally school-formed policies that tried to curb violence and bullying amongst children/students. Zero tolerance for the stuff, it makes logical sense. But a lot of schools blow it far out of proportion and use it instead to cut effort out of a lot of things. One kid punches another, and the second one doesn't fight back? Both get suspended for violence. Now it's reached the point where kids making finger guns or 'guns' out of Pop-Tarts get suspended, or even booted out of school for having a hairstyle or backpack that 'provokes violence'.

Sounds to me like someone on the board just has it out for this guy and wanted to get rid of him.

So if I play, "Through the Fire and Flames." at school, am I really listening to, "Through the Ak-47s and the M16s"? Honestly, reading that T-shirt, Ak-47 was the absolute last thing that would have came to my mind after reading "Fire."

Haha wow murican' schools seems to be the top prime of the worlds education lmao

Zero Tolerance needs to be entirely abolished, absolutely worthless system in every way. It's entirely doing more harm than good, there's nothing quite like being taught that the world is perfect, and being booted out if you realize it isn't and bring that knowledge with you. I can't imagine just how fucked up this generation of kids will be, for having to contend with this bullshit. I'm not intentionally pulling the obnoxious "All people younger than me are evil!!!" crap that some people do, I'm just saying that all of this thoughtless idiocy at school can't be doing them any long-term favors. Also, the whole "we're gonna suspend/boot you for having a life outside our school that we disagree with" thing is way fuckin' outta hand. If the kids in question were doing shit on school grounds that the school disallowed, it'd make perfect sense to manually punish them for it. However, when they're off at home, with family or elsewhere, I don't comprehend how schools can reasonably get pissy about what they do. There's no logical reason for schools to give a damn what the students do after school, unless it directly involves school property, teachers or 100% serious and intentional threats against the school. As it is, the fuckers pretty much have complete dominion over peoples' kids, 24/7, and that's just plain not right.

I'm inclined to believe there must be some unspoken pettiness and inter-departmental rivalry or grudge bullshit. Like you can only think of this sort of shit if you were already looking for any excuse to punish someone to begin with.

[QUOTE] The professor asked why his photo had caused such a reaction, and was told that "fire" could be a metaphor for "AK-47s.[/QUOTE] It's not an AK-47. It's Steyr AUG, you morons!

[QUOTE=cqbcat;44593380]It's not an AK-47. It's Steyr AUG, you morons![/QUOTE] Nope. Flamethrower.

cant you sue for this lol

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;44592371]It's worse than just zero-tolerance, since nothing even fucking happened.[/QUOTE] we've finally done it, we've reached negative-tolerance.

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;44592320]You must be fucking stupid.[/QUOTE]I'd say they must be shrooming.

[QUOTE=Reds;44592328]They should hire a person to, whenever zero tolerance is invoked, punch whoever invoked it and tell them "no, that's stupid, you're stupid, please consider resigning".[/QUOTE] Zero tolerance on zero-tolerance.

I'm pretty sure this guy can sue the fuck out of the College/dean.

Someone sure does need a psychiatric evaluation and a few days of unpaid leave here, but it sure the hell isn't the teacher.

[QUOTE=DanRatherman;44593290]I'm inclined to believe there must be some unspoken pettiness and inter-departmental rivalry or grudge bullshit. Like you can only think of this sort of shit if you were already looking for any excuse to punish someone to begin with.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't exactly call it "unspoken" [quote]... The head of the school's administration had just been delivered a vote of no confidence by the staff, including Schmidt, who had also filed a grievance recently for being denied a request for a sabbatical. ...[/quote]

This cannot be fucking real.

Fire is to Ak-47 as Freight Train is to Banana.

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;44592577]So what about if they try to fire someone? "You're FIRED!" [/QUOTE] Congratulations. You just threatened to kill someone with an AK-47. The cops should be arriving shortly.

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;44592320]You must be fucking stupid.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/TG2Diut.gif[/img]

I'm surprised they havent started removing things from History or English classes due to this zero tolerance shit. History is full of violence, it could be taken the wrong way.

The article insinuates the reason the dean did this was to get back at the professor. Personally I really don't have enough faith in any kind of school administration, not even enough to entertain the possibility this was some form of retaliation. I think it's more likely the dean was honestly conserned that the word fire meant ak-47, and should have to get a psych evaluation before being allowed back to work. Good luck getting past the word association.

So the AK47 was invented my humans in the old times to grill some animals?

At least he didn't lose his job and all he has to do is take a psych eval, though by the sounds of it the Dean needs to take one as well.

[QUOTE=Samoht;44594136]-picture-[/QUOTE] Reminds me of some other newsthread here in SH that had described Uzi as a "small assault rifle" or somewhere along those lines.

My fire is semi-automatic.

Guess the guy got "fire"-d Sorry.

[QUOTE=phygon;44592640]Do people think that AK-47's are the only guns that can or ever are used to commit crimes or something I mean hell, the quote on its own could be seen as a threat with enough mental gymnastics, why also bring AK's into the mix?[/QUOTE] It's pretty ironic, considering that a lot of school shootings involving rifles involve AR-15's, and the AR-15, its predecessor, and successors have been used in battle against wielders of the AK since the middle of the 20th century.

[QUOTE=Drsalvador;44596694]It's pretty ironic, considering that a lot of school shootings involving rifles involve AR-15's, and the AR-15, its predecessor, and successors have been used in battle against wielders of the AK since the middle of the 20th century.[/QUOTE] I can only think of one shooting that involved an AR-15. Most are handguns.