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thewayneONE student's parent complained, claiming it was pornographic. Said parent is also pressing the police to arrest the teacher, thus far the police have not arrested the teacher,
Ender's Game is an absolutely incredible book that I would recommend to just about anyone. I read it when it first came out, and though I'm not a huge fan of the subsequent books in the series (and I stopped following them), I definitely consider this a Must Read for any science fiction fan. And I would have no hesitation recommending it to any teenager.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/19/south-carolina-teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-middle-school-students/
http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2012/03/19/portlandia-enders-game-and-why-i-prefer-living-in-a-nation-over-a-confederacy/ (you have to scroll a fair way down the page to get to the SC Ender stuff)
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/20/1749236/teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-students?sdsrc=popbyskid
In other education news, a teacher's aide was fired for refusing to give her Facebook password to school administrators. She's suing the school. The interesting thing about this is that someone trying to force you to hand over your password is tat you would be violating your terms of service with Facebook, which could conceivably be illegal.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/01/1445225/teachers-aide-fired-for-refusing-to-hand-over-facebook-password
Ender's Game is an absolutely incredible book that I would recommend to just about anyone. I read it when it first came out, and though I'm not a huge fan of the subsequent books in the series (and I stopped following them), I definitely consider this a Must Read for any science fiction fan. And I would have no hesitation recommending it to any teenager.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/19/south-carolina-teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-middle-school-students/
http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2012/03/19/portlandia-enders-game-and-why-i-prefer-living-in-a-nation-over-a-confederacy/ (you have to scroll a fair way down the page to get to the SC Ender stuff)
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/20/1749236/teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-students?sdsrc=popbyskid
In other education news, a teacher's aide was fired for refusing to give her Facebook password to school administrators. She's suing the school. The interesting thing about this is that someone trying to force you to hand over your password is tat you would be violating your terms of service with Facebook, which could conceivably be illegal.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/01/1445225/teachers-aide-fired-for-refusing-to-hand-over-facebook-password
