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Teacher Who Sought to 'Demolish' Tea Party Placed on Leave From School

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FOXNews.com - Teacher Who Sought to 'Demolish' Tea Party Placed on Leave From School

"Some other thoughts are to ask people at the rally to sign a petition renouncing socialism. See just how much info you can get from these folks (name address, DOB, Social Security #). The more data we can mine from the Tea Partiers, the more mayhem we can cause with it!!!!" he wrote.

The state agency is investigating whether this is a hint at identity theft, and whether it is appropriate behavior for a public school teacher. It also will investigate charges that Levin used school computers during school hours to work on his Web site. Levin teaches 6th, 7th and 8th graders about computers and technology.
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This guy isn't hazlnut, is he? LOL

Can you imagine the toxic waste this guy has filled these young students' minds with?
 
Erod said:
FOXNews.com - Teacher Who Sought to 'Demolish' Tea Party Placed on Leave From School



This guy isn't hazlnut, is he? LOL
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Why? Did he have a "moderate" sticker on the chalk board? :rofl

Can you imagine the toxic waste this guy has filled these young students' minds with?
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Its sickening.

No teacher should be allowed to bring in personal political views to a classroom.

I will admit my favorite teacher in college did it but he also admitted it every time he did it.

Teacher was Indian and he really was no fan of Pakistan.

But at least he admitted it and never used it in a cruel way.
 
texmaster said:
Its sickening.

No teacher should be allowed to bring in personal political views to a classroom.

I will admit my favorite teacher in college did it but he also admitted it every time he did it.

Teacher was Indian and he really was no fan of Pakistan.

But at least he admitted it and never used it in a cruel way.
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I'm fine with that in college (if you make your opinion known and don't present it as unquestionable fact), but in middle school, I think kids are going to agree anyway just because of the respect they have for teachers (on an intellectual level).
 
phattonez said:
I'm fine with that in college (if you make your opinion known and don't present it as unquestionable fact), but in middle school, I think kids are going to agree anyway just because of the respect they have for teachers (on an intellectual level).
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...plus, they typically have no base of knowledge or experience to question anything a teacher says at that age.
 
texmaster said:
Why? Did he have a "moderate" sticker on the chalk board? :rofl



Its sickening.

No teacher should be allowed to bring in personal political views to a classroom.

I will admit my favorite teacher in college did it but he also admitted it every time he did it.

Teacher was Indian and he really was no fan of Pakistan.

But at least he admitted it and never used it in a cruel way.
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Nowhere I see in the article does it say he talked about any of this with his students. AS long as he was not pushing his views on his students, and did not break any laws or use school supplies for his campaign, I think it is improper to discipline him over this. Teachers are allowed to be assholes away from school too. Of course, if he did break laws or misuse school computers, that is a whole other issue, and I have no problem with the school punishing him appropriately, up to firing him.
 
Redress said:
Nowhere I see in the article does it say he talked about any of this with his students. AS long as he was not pushing his views on his students, and did not break any laws or use school supplies for his campaign, I think it is improper to discipline him over this. Teachers are allowed to be assholes away from school too. Of course, if he did break laws or misuse school computers, that is a whole other issue, and I have no problem with the school punishing him appropriately, up to firing him.
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Wrong, there is a code of conduct that a school has the right to demand from their faculty.

Freedom of speech doesn't ensure freedom from repercussions. You can walk in your bosses office right now and call him an a-hole, and you won't go to jail for it, but you will be fired.
 
Erod said:
Wrong, there is a code of conduct that a school has the right to demand from their faculty.

Freedom of speech doesn't ensure freedom from repercussions. You can walk in your bosses office right now and call him an a-hole, and you won't go to jail for it, but you will be fired.
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He did not call his boss an asshole, or do anything to any one at the school based on the article. False comparison.
 
Redress said:
He did not call his boss an asshole, or do anything to any one at the school based on the article. False comparison.
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He encourgaged people to obtain personal information from tea partiers, like SS numbers, by disguising themselves as fellow tea partiers so they could wreak havoc later.

Does that sound like an educator in the local middle school?

Defend that please.
 
Erod said:
He encourgaged people to obtain personal information from tea partiers, like SS numbers, by disguising themselves as fellow tea partiers so they could wreak havoc later.

Does that sound like an educator in the local middle school?

Defend that please.
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And if he broke the law, I have no problem with him being prosecuted, as I stated. If he did not, and his outside activities are not effecting his ability to do his job, then it's inappropriate to fire him.
 
Redress said:
Nowhere I see in the article does it say he talked about any of this with his students. AS long as he was not pushing his views on his students, and did not break any laws or use school supplies for his campaign, I think it is improper to discipline him over this. Teachers are allowed to be assholes away from school too. Of course, if he did break laws or misuse school computers, that is a whole other issue, and I have no problem with the school punishing him appropriately, up to firing him.
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From the article.

According to the school district laws regulating teacher conduct, which are posted online: "The Beavertown School District rules involving teacher use of the district's electronic system clearly state: The district's electronic communications system shall be used for educational purposes consistent with the district's mission, priorities and beliefs. Educational purposes do not include commercial use, use for personal financial gain or political advocacy."

That is what the investigation is about.
 
Fire anyone pushing political views on kids. That is for parents to do, and rightfully so IMO.

School is a place to learn hard facts, critical thinking and basic concepts.
 
texmaster said:
From the article.

According to the school district laws regulating teacher conduct, which are posted online: "The Beavertown School District rules involving teacher use of the district's electronic system clearly state: The district's electronic communications system shall be used for educational purposes consistent with the district's mission, priorities and beliefs. Educational purposes do not include commercial use, use for personal financial gain or political advocacy."

That is what the investigation is about.
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Yes, and I stated if he used the school computers for this, they would be correct in punishing him up to dismissal.
 
Redress said:
Yes, and I stated if he used the school computers for this, they would be correct in punishing him up to dismissal.
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So....we agree *quiet evil laugh*


we agree *louder evil laugh*


WE AGREE

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texmaster said:
Forget your sense of humor?
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No, but apparently mine only works for me. I got the joke, I laughed. My joke however, seems to have failed miserably.
 
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texmaster said:
Why? Did he have a "moderate" sticker on the chalk board? :rofl



Its sickening.

No teacher should be allowed to bring in personal political views to a classroom.

I will admit my favorite teacher in college did it but he also admitted it every time he did it.

Teacher was Indian and he really was no fan of Pakistan.

But at least he admitted it and never used it in a cruel way.
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Well that's real good so at least he didn't behead any Pakistanis in class. An upright prof.
 
Aa teacher in grade school middle ot high school should not be pushing any ideology or be an activet proponent of or against a political party or movement. I woulde make an exception with treaching the truth about the evils of real Communism.

I wonder if a teacher was a proponent of the TP and was recruiting for the TP would the same level of outrage be coming from the same people?

I know the answer, anyone else ?
 
SingleCellOrganism said:
Fire anyone pushing political views on kids. That is for parents to do, and rightfully so IMO.

School is a place to learn hard facts, critical thinking and basic concepts.
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Hard facts about history and political science where bias and various viewpoints are an essential part to the study of those disciplines?
 
F107HyperSabr said:
Well that's real good so at least he didn't behead any Pakistanis in class. An upright prof.
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Speaking of humor, THIS is the kind that I like... :2wave:

If he used school computers for the political advocacy AND school policy specifically prohibits it, he should be disciplined ... though firing if this is a first offense is probably extreme...
 
ludahai said:
Speaking of humor, THIS is the kind that I like... :2wave:

If he used school computers for the political advocacy AND school policy specifically prohibits it, he should be disciplined ... though firing if this is a first offense is probably extreme...
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Thanks, so I see there are a few more of us who see humor in not obvious places. As far as using school computers then yes discipline would be needed that is an absolute. I still need to hgoogle for opther sources of this story besides the fauxed up one!! SORRY COULDN'T HELP THAT.
 
And, he did this because he believed in tolerance, freedom of expression, acceptance of diversity?
 
Erod said:
FOXNews.com - Teacher Who Sought to 'Demolish' Tea Party Placed on Leave From School



This guy isn't hazlnut, is he? LOL

Can you imagine the toxic waste this guy has filled these young students' minds with?
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After actually reading not only the Fox version of this story (while holding my nose) but other sources it is obvious that this guy Jason Levin is a bit of an eccentric and may even a whacko. Ok so now the OP wants us to "imagine the toxic waste this guy has filled these young students' “Ok we can imagine anything we want but what we have on this guy? The possibility that he maybe used school computers to create or update or monitor his website. Ok if he did that then he broke the law I would think since that would constitute stealing from the school system and since it is a public school that means he would have stolen from the government.

Yet there is nothing to indicate what the OP so wishfully wants us to imagine -"toxic waste” in the minds of "young students' ".

Ok Levin is whacked he wants to go around dressed as Adolf Hitler to embarrass the Teas. he wants to go around "acting as offensively as possible -" Well that is not necessary since the Teas do that very well and very often all by themselves.

This plan by Levin is just plain childish ", "Our goal is that whenever a Tea Partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right there next to them saying, 'Yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!'"

You all that needs to be done is to complete the investigation to determine if the whacked teacher did misuse school computers and he did punish his stupid face and he did not there isn't much that can be done unless there is a rule or law in Oregon prohibiting teachers from acting out their first amendment rights.
 
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