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Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues
gwoodrow writes "We've all heard the 'fired because of MySpace' stories, where a simple blog or picture gets someone canned. But now one of the targets is fighting back. (The offending picture in this case was a snap from Halloween 2005 of the student in a pirate outfit drinking from a cup.)" From the article: "Teacher in training Stacy Snyder was denied her education degree on the eve of graduation when Millersville University apparently found pictures on her MySpace page 'promoting underage drinking.' As a result, the 27-year-old mother of two had her teaching certificate withheld and was granted an English degree instead. In response, Snyder has filed a Federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania university asking for her education diploma and certificate along with $75,000 in damages."
She was granted an English degree and had her teaching certificate withheld. Also it appears more related to the 'Drunken Pirate'caption which accompanied the picture rather than the picture itself.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
laying off the beer for a while, at least 20 pounds while. And now, it's 2 years later?! Whoa, she must be pretty big now!
In New York & New Jersey, a Masters Degree equates to a teaching salary of approx. $55k-60k a year. Unions have negotiated this. Given that the schools will pay for the degree, many teachers either get it online or at night.
I hate to break it to you, but $55,000 a year is well over the national salary average.
That's in NY. YMMV.
My wife, will have her Masters Degree in a few months and with that pay increase, *might* crack $30k. Maybe. If she were work at a private school, she would instantly get a $10k - $13k raise, just from the difference in pay scales.
Teacher Unions do not exist in all states. In Missouri, for example, it is illegal for teachers to unionize.
What you think it the "real problem" is only one of many. Honestly, where you live there might be an over-abundance of elementary teachers with no jobs, but here in the Mid-West, you can find any district in the state looking for at least a few teachers. If you don't want to teach elementary, that's fine, pay the $250, take the test and become certified to teach something else.
I'd say NCLB, standardized testing, long hours and piss poor pay for everyone except administrators are larger problems than too many teachers, but I only know what's going on in Missouri.
I guess that it's far better to let students with alcohol poisoning choke on their own vomit than go to the hospital and risk getting arrested.
actually yes, it is - they surely deserve a darwin award.
Conservatism: The fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is your inferior is being treated as your equal.
Good call...thanks. The link with the main story was blocked (thank you blog.washingtonpost...), so I couldn't RTFA. TFS said 'pictures', so that was my best guess.
Except that promiscuous behaviour isn't immoral because of unintentional babies at all. It's immoral to people that consider that you should dedicate yourself to a relationship with one person. It's 'just an opinion' sure, but this guy is making up crap about people who don't get any getting jealous o_0 People don't outlaw breaking and entering because they are jealous that they can't crack safes, etc. For some reason this guy wants to slate people for having opinions and wanting to have committed relationships? I have no problem with birth control myself, but I do have a problem with people being promiscuous, I think it's extremely shallow, and in the end just leads to loneliness.
which is totally what she said
Yea, when we get some fucking common sense or when we get rid of republicans.
Reminds me of a great Bill Hicks joke:
"And on the 7th day God said, 'Done. There is creation, perfect and holy.'"
"'Oh my ME! I left fucking pot everywhere! Now people are going to think they are going to have to smoke it! SHIT!!! I shouldn't have had that joint on the 3rd day! Now I'm going to have to create Republicans!!!'"
RonB
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
Man, I feel so sorry for those poor kids that get home-schooled, sent sent to some Bible-thumper college, and then sent straight into a marriage. They miss out on the best time of their lives and they never even know it (until it's WAY to late). Is it any wonder they end up all fucked up and homicidal?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Why is it automatically 'bad law'. A theocracy doesn't sound bad to me as long as the government is just following a good set of beliefs rather than creating new ones. I'm not trying to impose my morality or pass laws here, just saying what I believe, so I will politely ask you to STFU too. Oops, I'm now trying to force on you my belief that you should STFU.
which is totally what she said
Yeah yeah I know all the 'do what you want as long as I get to do what I want to do' or 'do what you want as long as it doesn't hurt others' thing. I said exactly what I mean, that I don't consider it right for other people to be polygamous, they can do it if they want, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. I also just see it causing pain to a few people that agree to the whole open relationships thing, but then end up getting too attached to one person and becoming jealous/whatever. I don't see any proper 'deep' relationships happening if you are only having the multiple relationships for sexual purposes rather than for emotional support and so on. I'm not married, but I've heard and believe that married people can have more fulfilling relationships (sexually as well as in other ways) than those that are always moving from person to person. Of course some people have crap marriages too. I stand by the fact that having many short-term relationships will lead to loneliness. Many long term relationships doesn't make sense to me, as I'm the sort of person that is very focused in whatever I do. I prefer to have smaller groups of good friends rather than a swathe of 'shallower' friendships, ie ones where I spend a little time with everyone rather than a lot of time with a few good friends. Sure it's fun to have sex with lots of different people, and I heard (don't have a link or proof) that they did a test on a male rat, continually presenting it more females, and it chose to keep having sex rather than eat or sleep, and so it ended up dying. I'm not sure if it had been given any drugs or had its brain modified, can't remember, but I think it was just a normal rat. It would just get bored if it was the same female all the time, but kept going when presented with new ones *shrug* Keep on slagging my opinions and claiming I have faulty data, while you yourself are spouting a load of subjective nonce.. it's always amusing to see people try that on (especially when they can't spell non sequitur)
which is totally what she said
Alternatively, if you vote for politicians which vote for laws giving employeers such unlimited powers, it's your own damn fault.