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South Carolina teacher suspended for reading Ender's Game to his class
ONE 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
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re: Facebook, I have read that job seekers are being increasingly asked for their passwords, especially if they do not have public profiles, and being turned down if they refuse to provide them.
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There are some things that just are not legal to ask in an interview, and there are some things that are gray. This one, currently, is not legal. I signed on to FB years ago and stopped using it very quickly when I saw their total disregard for user privacy, but I didn't delete my profile so I could on occasion check up on friends or let people know when my wife was playing with a celtic music group in Phoenix, and that's about it. Aside from that, I've deleted all my posts from FB.
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And there have to be at least three violations of privacy in asking for a personal Facebook password. It's none of your employer's damn business what you do when you're not on the clock.