#406 Judge Not, You Homophobic Asshat

The smiling homophobic deacon and the "too gay" student.

Principal Shuts Down Cosmetology Class Because One of the Students ‘Looked’ Gay

 The principal, one Principal Thomas Amons is also, quell surprise, a deacon in the local brainwashing cult, I mean, church.

He told the teacher to bar the student entry into the class but the teacher, because she isn't a bigot, refused even knowing she would likely lose her job. Her personal principles were far more important to her than the bigoted and hate-based principles of the principal.

So yeah, in Texas, you can be deemed gay and hated on just because some asshole decides your clothes mark you as gay. Which is to say, you couldn't PAY me to go to Texas.

I think Thomas Amons needs to spend more time reading his Bible, especially that part about not judging others.

I am so very, very sick and fucking tired of so-called "Men of God" behaving like such colossal shitbags to others and rationalizing it by their twisted interpretation of a book of myths that actually contains counsels tolerance and acceptance, not division and hate.

On the positive side, the student has gotten an extra-curricular lesson in what kind of assholes he may be facing as he grows up. He may or may not be gay and I don't care one way or the other but he's learning a shitty lesson about asshole adults judging you without even bothering to learn a bit of your character and merely looking and judging based solely on appearances. Pathetic.

 Rule #406 is Judge Not, You Homophobic Asshat

#393 Don't Follow the Herd

Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85%

The new approach? Instead of auto-suspensions for a kid acting out in class, the principal sits down with the kid and asks him what is going on. A discipline problem is rarely an isolated incident and the school has seen beyond the immediate event to the larger picture.

 The herd mentality is to punish, suspend, expel and otherwise use fear and retribution as a means of maintaining order. But fear is a terrible motivator and causes rebellion and discontent. The herd is a bully that is bigger and stronger than a single student and uses that strength to beat down that student.

 That same strength could be applied in a positive way to effectively alter the course of that student's life by intervening in a constructive manner.

 Rule #393 is Don't Follow the Herd

#326 Don't Close the School Library and Replace It With a Coffeeshop

Of course, you know a story with a headline like this, Lamar High's Library Ousts Books, Re-Opens as Coffee Shop is going to be southern and most likely Texan. And guess what? You're right.

I bet the principal considered putting in a strip club before "settling" on a coffee shop. Because lord knows we need more coffee and less book readerating. Especially in schools where learning leads to thinking which leads to realizing that your state is run by a bunch of dimwitted assholes in big hats.

Texas is the state that wants to rewrite textbooks to include creationism and other totally bullshit religion-based information that will push America even further behind the rest of the world in terms of really educating our children.

They didn't pave paradise because Texas ain't nothing like paradise and they didn't put up a parking lot but they didn't go too far off from the song.

Rule #326 is Don't Close the School Library and Replace It With a Coffeeshop

#179 Don't Single Out a 5 Year Old

Mom says special needs child "voted" out of classroom by his classmates and was orchestrated by his teacher.

"(She) took him and stood him in front of his classmates this week, asked every single child to tell Alex why we don't like him... in his words, tell Alex why we hate him," she explains.

After having each child ridicule the boy, she says the teacher continued belittling him.

Which tells me that the teacher has some pretty severe issues if they are teeing off on a flippin' 5 year old boy and subjecting him to public ridicule and humiliation.

I would say that the teacher needs to be fired and possibly brought up on child abuse charges for what she encouraged to happen. I would guess she was trying to "shame" him into behaving better but what she did was so over the top and deeply, deeply wrong that the lesson is completely lost in the assault on his ego and person.

I expect the parents of the little boy are meeting with lawyers to see if there's a lawsuit in all of this and I'd bet dollars to donuts that there is.

Rule #179 is Don't Single Out a 5 Year Old

#155 Don't Email Topless Pics of Yourself to Your Students

Student's parents found topless pictures of teacher in his email. Which is to say that this teacher is a few marks short of a perfect 4.0 GPA.

It should go without saying this was an extraordinarily stupid thing for her to do. And could really only result in bad things for everyone involved, except for the boy who got to see some boobies (which, according to my neighbor, parent of a 13 year old boy, is one of the main driving forces in teen boys).

Stupid, avoidable and indelibly marked on her permanent record. Thus beginneth the slide to the bottom. Nicely done, Melissa Moss, have fun trying to get another job. At least another job where you keep your clothes on.

I guess the teacher is being taught this lesson.

Rule #155 is Don't Email Topless Pics of Yourself to Your Students