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I clicked on the link and he should have been fired for a bad performance.

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/a ... ryid=79533

Apparently, his teaching skills were not so good either. Hogwarts it isn't.
Al

It surprises me that this was in Florida. I could understand if it was some backward, one-horse town in the Deep South where Harry Potter books are banned as "the Devil's work", but Florida?!

What a poor guy.

ummm....Queen - have you ever BEEN to Florida?

Stories like this almost seem to argue FOR exposure...

I live in Florida, and this doesn't shock me one bit.

queen of clubs wrote:It surprises me that this was in Florida. I could understand if it was some backward, one-horse town in the Deep South where Harry Potter books are banned as "the Devil's work", but Florida?!

Florida has just passed a bill that protects teachers who want to spout the gibberish that is creationism at impressionable young minds.

I think we should be wary of judging too deeply as the 'facts' are less than clear. His performance on that clip may be deliberately bad to emphasise what a no-brainer decision it was, or he may just be no good at magic! If true, the other issues of not following work plans and the use of unapproved computers would worry me far more than a bit of 'daft Uncle' magic but we only have the guy's version of the conversation referring to a 'huge issue'.

If Jim Piculas' story is true then education in Florida has some serious problems. If it's not true then Jim has serious problems. The truth must be somewhere in there but I doubt the authorities or the media will give the same high focus to it now, the Wizardry’ thing is far too contentious and headline grabbing.

Mandrake wrote:I think we should be wary of judging too deeply as the 'facts' are less than clear. His performance on that clip may be deliberately bad to emphasise what a no-brainer decision it was, or he may just be no good at magic! If true, the other issues of not following work plans and the use of unapproved computers would worry me far more than a bit of 'daft Uncle' magic but we only have the guy's version of the conversation referring to a 'huge issue'.

If Jim Piculas' story is true then education in Florida has some serious problems. If it's not true then Jim has serious problems. The truth must be somewhere in there but I doubt the authorities or the media will give the same high focus to it now, the Wizardry’ thing is far too contentious and headline grabbing.

I tend to agree, nobody is going to start this debate on a whim. I imagine this is far deeper then what we are seeing. But then, some things are just what they appear. Simple truth is we just don't know.

Can you imagine if you could actually display that on your resume though??

I lost my previous job due to wizardy, so now I use magic to entertain people.


If that isn't a shining recomendation I don't know what is.

Arkesus wrote:Can you imagine if you could actually display that on your resume though??

I lost my previous job due to wizardy, so now I use magic to entertain people.

Followed by, "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I get angry....."

It's a very odd world we live in isn't it? Oh I'll really never understand why there's so much narrow mindedness. Even if the guy was involved in witchcraft, does it really matter, it's his choice to believe and practise what he wants, it's not going to affect his ability to do his job, not unless he's forcing his ideas on to the children of course but he wasn't doing that.

Oh religion and silly superstition when taken to the extreme, really are the worst things that humans ever came up with!

Demitri wrote:ummm....Queen - have you ever BEEN to Florida?

Precisely

Tomo writes: "Florida has just passed a bill that protects teachers who want to spout the gibberish that is creationism at impressionable young minds."

While I am about as far from a creationist as possible, to suggest that the views of ANYONE is "gibberish" is nonsense.

A lot of good Americans died so that others had the freedom to "spout gibberish" or anything else.

Tread warily

Peter, I'm not going to get into an argument with you. I stand by my original post. Creationism is gibberish.