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Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-the-teachers,-they're-the-enemy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Forbes reports that a middle school teacher in South Carolina has been placed on administrative leave for reading sci-fi classic Ender's Game to his students. According to blogger Tod Kelly, '[A parent] reported him to the school district complained that the book was pornographic; that same parent also asked the local police to file criminal charges against the teacher. As of today, the police have not yet decided whether or not to file charges (which is probably a good sign that they won't). The school district, however, appears to agree with the parent, is considering firing the teacher and will be eliminating the book from the school.'"

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  1. Re:Back to the Future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How ignorant.. Not one mention of political side and you just jump right on the bandwagon.

    With people like you, cheap labor will be easy to find.

  2. Re:Back to the Future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're fucking retarded if you think this was a liberal parent getting all up in arms over this. When was the last time that this happened anywhere but in the inbred, hillbilly, neo-fascist, very republican bible belt?

  3. Gotta love the religious types by walterbyrd · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    God will save us from climate change: U.S. Representative

    U.S. Representative John Shimkus, possible future chairman of the Congressional committee that deals with energy and its attendant environmental concerns, believes that climate change should not concern us since God has already promised not to destroy the Earth.

    Shimkus, an evangelical Christian and a Republican member of the House from Illinois, on Tuesday signalled his desire to become chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

    The Energy and Commerce committee is among the most powerful in the U.S. Congress, with a wide-ranging purview over legislation touching on energy policy, environmental initiatives and public health.

    Shimkus already serves on the committee. During a hearing in 2009, he dismissed the dangers of climate change and the warnings of the scientific community by quoting the Bible.

    First, he noted God’s post-Flood promise to Noah in Genesis 8:21-22.

    “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though all inclinations of his heart are evil from childhood and never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

    “As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.”

    “I believe that’s the infallible word of God, and that’s the way it’s going to be for his creation,” Shimkus said.

    Then he quoted Matthew 24:31.

    “And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of the heavens to the other.”

    “The Earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over. Man will not destroy this Earth. This Earth will not be destroyed by a Flood,” Shimkus asserted. “I do believe that God’s word is infallible, unchanging, perfect.”

    Following the Republican wave in the recent Congressional elections, the committee will shift from Democratic to Republican leadership.

    On Tuesday, Shimkus sent a letter to his colleagues burnishing his credentials by saying he is “uniquely qualified among a group of talented contenders to lead the Energy and Commerce Committee.”

    http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/69-69/3938-god-will-save-us-from-climate-change-us-representative