Teacher fired: "Florida got excited"

[proud2BlibKansan]

Eighth-grade students at Mission Valley Middle School in Prairie Village will not let the firing of a beloved teacher fade quietly away.

A group of about 50 cut classes today and demonstrated outside the school waving homemade signs urging drivers along Mission Road to “honk” their support for Ryan Haraughty, a science teacher who was fired Monday by the Shawnee Mission Board of Education because, he said, of a sexual innuendo uttered in class. The school district said there were more incidents.

Haraughty, who worked for the school district for the last 10 years, said in an interview that the firing stemmed from a recent incident.

Haraughty had drawn a picture of the United States and one of his students noticed that Florida was out of proportion. The student asked Haraughty about the error.

The teacher’s offhand response, which he said Monday he regretted, was: “Florida got excited.”

more . . . http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1562985.html

[msongs]

1. evidently the school board has dirty minds lol nt

[niyad]

2. I've been calling it the limp dick state for years.

[madfloridian]

3. lol

What prudes.

That is ridiculous and hilarious. I hope the kids stick by him.

[JCMach1]

4. Fired? Should have slapped him with a wet noodle...

NOW... DON'T... DO IT... AGAIN!

[Angry Dragon]

5. People have lost their sense of humor

There are too many people out there that are so afraid of their own shadow and they fear everything that is different than themselves.

[tblue]

6. Oy gevalt! For that they fire a teacher? They really need to get a life.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. A joke told by my eighth grade teacher IN CLASS

"Hey, kids. What's an 11?"

"...."

"A 10 who swallows! Hyuck hyuck hyuck..."

No fuckin' lie. That's Queens, NY, 1987 or '88.

Nobody, of course, got fired.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Queens, NY is not Kansas

Thank God. :)

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. We're glad people who can't cut it in NY have someplace to go

That's more their speed.

:-)

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. LOL!

No rubber rooms in Kansas. :rofl:

[PVnRT]

10. But....wait....

I thought the SUPER EVIL TEACHER'S UNION made it impossible to fire teachers?

[LWolf]

14. So many would have you believe.

Obviously in error.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. I'm not sure how strong this union is

I should know. I live in this district.

Did you see the update? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7004613&mesg_id=7004613

[Regret My New Name]

11. Jeeez....

My gut reaction is to side with the teacher here... but without knowing the 'other incidents' it's hard to say for sure... I'm still betting the principle is just a uptight asshat.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I had the same feeling

I want to know what else he did that was so bad. But this one incident is not worth being fired over.

[petronius]

15. I've made jokes like that about FL in class - although I teach college students

:)

[the blues]

17. K&R

[cigsandcoffee]

18. Inappropriate for middle school kids, but it hardly merits termination. n/t