It’s a good thing I’m not a teacher in Seminole County, because they would fire the hell out of me if they caught wind of my blog. I mean, if all it took for John Wolfe to get fired is to drop the f-bomb a few times and sound a little depressed on his LiveJournal, they’d probably stone me to fucking death.
Allow me to summarize the situation: Boy graduates from college. Boy has crappy job as waiter that he bitches a little about on blog. Boy gets job as teacher. School fires boy after 5 days for aforementioned blog.
WTF? I could understand it if he were talking about wanting to get it on with students or fantasizing about burning down the school, but unless there is a whole lot more shit on his blog than what is featured here, I can’t imagine how they can legally fire him. I know Florida is a right-to-work state and all, but c’mon!
From the article on the local Fox affiliate web site:
But district leaders say its really quite simple. They said that he crossed an ethical line, and for that, he must be terminated.
Wolfe has never had his own classroom. He has been a substitute teacher in Orange and Alachua Counties up until Lake Mary High School hired him this summer as a Television and Film teacher.
Just five days into the job, a few of his students stumbled across his personal online blog.
Read excerpts from Wolfe’s blog >>>
After reading it, they told another teacher who reported it to district leaders who decided that Wolfe’s language and thoughts were inappropriate behavior for a teacher.
Let’s see, what horrific things did Wolfe talk about?
- The lack of morality in major corporations and how they screw people
- A tongue-in-cheek letter to Jesus asking for help with a job application
- Some punk rock lyrics
- How he had classes with some dude who later went psycho on campus and got arrested
- His feelings of depression and his efforts to thwart it
- An apology for being rude to someone earlier in the day
- Oh, and he used the word fuck and shit like that
Yeah, it seems simple to me, now, too. It would be completely unethical to let this guy teach our children Film and Television. Fucktards.
#1 by tall penguin on September 2, 2009 - 4:53 pm
Never underestimate how stupid humans can be. Fucktards is right.
I'm fortunate. Much of my management team reads my blog and have been nothing but supportive of me and my journey.
#2 by CyberLizard on September 2, 2009 - 5:07 pm
I've got coworkers who read mine. I don't think my boss really cares. I don't think I'd care if he cared. But that's the main reason I blog pseudonymously; to keep my blogging (relatively) hidden from potential employers. No point in pissing them off too early!
#3 by Jared on September 3, 2009 - 9:52 pm
I'm curious, wouldn't he kind of need to give a lesson "adult content" in the rating system as well as language and target audience? That seems kind of like a basic in film. The kids couldn't watch "Spaceballs" even though it's rated PG?
Reading my blog would just piss off the religious and the denialists… (read: 70+% of America)