Posted on 05/06/2008 4:54:18 AM PDT by FL_Native
A local teacher is accused of wizardy for doing a slight of hand trick.
What did he do, make the school board disappear?
Made a toothpick “disappear”...
This is the kind of crap that gives devil worship a bad name.
“Sleight of hand”
Is today April 1st again?
Eh - maybe he or she just had really small hands?
Sorry, kind of nervous this is my first time. Hope I did it right, and didn’t break any copyright rules.
He’s a witch! Burn him!!
He turned me into a newt!
Where are the pictures, so we can decide guilt or innocence?
Did he use a (forbidden) slide-rule, and get a
math calculation correct (forbidden)?
Now we know what the wizard does when he isn’t on the van getting summoned by the cell phone guys.
And this happened in Florida. I get the feeling that somebody didn’t like him, and used this as an excuse
Is there a statute dealing with this? Was the teacher trying to claim supernatural powers or something? It was a magic trick, fer cryin’ out loud. And he lost his job??? Granted, he was a substitute but for a substitute to come in and take over a middle school class, magic is a job requirement if you are going to survive the day. Maybe the next step is for the sub to get a lawyer and watch him make a whole pile of the school board’s money disappear. They’d deserve it.
There’s obviously more to it than that. He must be a White Christian male who didn’t bow down to the gods of political correctness.
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It seems fine to me. I was just being a nuisance :-).
Ping ... it’s not exactly a naughty teacher ping request, more like a stupid administrator ping request. Magic and wizardry are definitely not covered in the Florida Statutes.
A newt?
That's ridiculous.
Whoever did the firing definitely believes in "magic" and probably shouldn't be allowed in a public school ~ after all, those people are into "everybody nekkid" fertility rights, and the sacrificing of virgins.
Unsafe, unsafe, unsafe!!!!
Thanks
Doesn’t say much for the Supervisor of Teachers in Land of Lakes (butter?) ... I don’t care for Wizards, but in some classrooms you could use a Wizard ha...ha..
I wonder if he was accused by a Nigerian transfer student...
Disappearing genitals?
Nope. A toothpick.
I think you may have something there. I wonder who he has angered in the past.
I thought you would get a kick out of this *PING*
I got better.
Yeah, but look what Newt turned into.
I did find another link that implies there were other issues...
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=79533
What a strange story. I think I would have fallen on the floor laughing if I was him. And threatened a curse on the accuser.
Rushe Middle School is known in the area for its innovative "Just Say No to Poppies" program and gained wide acclaim with national organizations like the NEA for its progressive "No Buckets of Water Anywhere, Ever" policy which has been enforced by a group of highly trained, ecologically friendly, flying monkeys.
“And this happened in Florida. I get the feeling that somebody didn’t like him, and used this as an excuse”
Perhaps many of the student body are from a culture that takes magic very seriously and it spooked them. Chickens and goats are probably being sacrificed at this very moment to remove and possible curse the teacher placed on them.
There was a supervisor named Rocky at the plant I used to work at who was an amateur magician and would constantly walk up to employees in the shop and perform a magic trick.
One day I asked him why he would always do that and he said that first of all it was fun then he said it would always break the ice between him and the employee and he could always get an employee to do a rough job after putting the employee into a "happy" mood......
Made sense to me...
Well that explains the slippery hands.
Flashback to that adolescent thing where you cut out her knees and take some Scotch tape to make them her boobs...
He also turned Mr. Newt into a Gingrich-Gore manbearpig
What's wrong with being a Newt?
The supervisor of substitute teachers is the one who should lose his job. Sheesh!
I mean no due process: they didn’t show he weighed the same as a duck or anything.
Its all those Harry Potter books I tell ya.
Welcome to Free Republic, now if only this teacher could make the teachers union disappear.
Well I say throw him in a lake. If he floats, GUILTY. He sinks and drowns, well he’s innocent and he must be offered an apology. Post humously of course (I think I spelled that wrong)
Thanks, long time lurker, don’t always have time to post.
Muggle complaints?
Did you get better?
Around about post #30.
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