Milwaukee teacher Travis Sarandos was placed on leave after tweeting that he hopes radio icon Rush Limbaugh dies a painful death from cancer. The brouhaha erupted after Sarandos — who teaches English at the Milwaukee High School of the Arts — tweeted: “Limbaugh absolutely should have to suffer from cancer. It’s awesome that he’s dying, and hopefully it is as quick as it is painful.”
And then, there's this one from a now-jobless "principal" on the death of Kobe Bryant:
A Washington state high school principal resigned in shame Friday, exactly 12 days after the now-unemployed woman had responded to the death of the late Kobe Bryant (and thus also the death of his daughter and seven others) by describing it as an act of “karma.”
“Not gonna lie. Seems to me that karma caught up with a rapist today,” former Camas High School principal Liza Sejkora wrote on Facebook on Jan. 26.
Not gonna lie. Seems to me that karma caught up with her.
With people like these in positions of authority in our public school systems, is it any surprise that students so often emerge from the schools in a totally ignorant and clueless state?
While it’s not clear when exactly word of her Facebook posts began spreading, she reportedly sent an email to Camas High School parents this past Monday apologizing for what she’d written.
Too late; the Washington administrator had little choice but to resign amid the backlash and student walkouts. She did so one day after the walkouts.
