Teacher suspended with pay

[Ron in Regina]

The video was campy, & reminded me of something that you might see from
the 40's or 50's by Bob Hope & Sammy Davis Jr. & that crowd. Not sure how
that would spark any conversation beyond what was on Comedy Central
recently.

 

[JLM]

Vancouver Island teacher suspended for showing Grade 4 students Christmas video featuring drag queens
A Grade 4 teacher has been suspended for using a YouTube video of cross-dressing bikini models to spark a classroom discussion on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.
Joe Winkler was suspended with pay this week after six parents at Brentwood elementary school complained about the “sexualized nature of the behaviour of the actors” in the clip, which features men in bikinis and wigs lip-synching Bette Midler’s rendition of the Mele Kalikimaka Christmas song as they frolic on a tropical shoreline.

More: Vancouver Island teacher suspended for showing Grade 4 students Christmas video featuring drag queens

I think he deserves to be suspended WITHOUT pay for being stupid, not for the subject of the video. Wouldn't it be prudent to check with the parents first? :roll:

 

[Cliffy]

BC is a fagggot free zone if the teacher wants to play that game then he should move to Toronto the gay capital of Canada and leave the normal people to raise their kids in a more traditional way.

Where do you get your nonsense? Have you ever been out of TO? There are thriving gay communities in every major city in Canada. Hell, Nelson BC has one of the largest per capita gay communities in Canada and it only has about 10 thousand people.

 

[taxslave]

BC is a fagggot free zone if the teacher wants to play that game then he should move to Toronto the gay capital of Canada and leave the normal people to raise their kids in a more traditional way.

I'll be sure to let my gay and lesbian friends know that leftards are homophobic.

 

[Spade]

Liberalman is ultra conservative.

 

[taxslave]

I'm kind of wondering where the punishment is in being suspended without pay? Sounds more like paid holiday to me.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Liberalman is ultra conservative.

He just can't find any avatar pictures of Stephen Harper he likes.

 

[SLM]

I'll be sure to let my gay and lesbian friends know that leftards are homophobic.

He's just an idiot who thinks he can do a drive by "offending" or some such stupidity like that. He hit about 5 or 6 threads at the same time with some sort of flippant stupid comment or the other. I'd say he's best ignored completely. (Although I winged him on the Mensa post, that I just couldn't resist.)

 

[Ron in Regina]

I'm kind of wondering where the punishment is in being suspended without pay? Sounds more like paid holiday to me.

....& just in time for Christmas!!! As Locutus would say, "It's another Festivus Miracle!!!"

 

[SLM]

I'm kind of wondering where the punishment is in being suspended without pay? Sounds more like paid holiday to me.

I always interpret that as a knee-jerk reaction to appease angry parents calling (the suspension) but doing so before investigating whether they have a legal leg to stand on (hence with pay).

 

[L Gilbert]

BC is a fagggot free zone if the teacher wants to play that game then he should move to Toronto the gay capital of Canada and leave the normal people to raise their kids in a more traditional way.

Jealous that you and you fellow Gr. 2ers didn't get to see it?

Seriously, Glibman, it's a western Con plot to annoy you poor, deprived, eastern kids..