{"id":26897,"date":"2012-03-08T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/we-dont-need-another-paragon.html"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:59:15","slug":"we-dont-need-another-paragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/we-dont-need-another-paragon.html","title":{"rendered":"We don&#39;t need another paragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the good ol&#39; days, when teachers were to be unmarried women of the highest moral character?  Parents could be married (in fact, it was preferred), drink, smoke, and carry on, but teachers had to be prim, prissy paragons.<\/p>\n<p>We really don&#39;t need those days back.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108176814619778619437'>Wil Wheaton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#39;m going to be a little ranty for a second. You should probably skip this.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting the Huffington Post:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Gerardo Sanchez, father of a 13-year-old student at the school, told KCAL-TV that he can&#39;t believe this is happening at his child&#39;s school.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;School is supposed to be a safe place,&quot; he told the station. &#39;Now, you think twice because you never know what is going to happen.&#39;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Really, dude? Are you fucking serious? Guess what: your child&#39;s school IS STILL A SAFE PLACE. One of your kids&#39; teachers may have done porn &#8212; WHEN SHE WAS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR CHILD &#8212; and you think the school is now suddenly not a safe place?<\/p>\n<p>Guess what, dude: the <b>world<\/b> is not a safe place, especially if you&#39;re the kind of person who is terrified that you may be exposed to things you personally don&#39;t like when you step outside of your house. If you&#39;re so worried that your precious little snowflake is going to interact with a person who did something you don&#39;t approve of <b>when that person was nowhere near your child<\/b>, you should move to Mars, build a moat around your house, and homeschool. Also, remember to bang the rocks together, you idiot.<\/p>\n<p>The world is <b>filled<\/b> with people who do things you don&#39;t approve of. Off the top of my head, I can think of something: parents who think a school is suddenly <b>unsafe<\/b>, because one of the teachers at that school may have done something they don&#39;t approve of when they were nowhere near the school.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I don&#39;t agree with parents who are losing their shit because of something a teacher may have done away from school on her own time, I completely understand why it would make some of them uncomfortable or angry&#8230; but to suggest that it somehow makes the school <b><i>unsafe<\/i><\/b>? That&#39;s just fucking stupid. I mean, that&#39;s Sarah Palin stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Rant over. I <i>told<\/i> you that you should probably skip this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.huffpost.com%2Fgen%2F525680%2Fthumbs%2Fs-TEACHER-PORN-large.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/07\/teacher-rumored-to-be-hardcore-porn-actress_n_1328020.html'>Teacher Rumored To Be Hardcore Porn Actress, Removed From Classroom<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA middle school teacher has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into rumors that she&#39;s also a hardcore porn actress, KCAL-TV reports. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the good ol&#39; days, when teachers were to be unmarried women of the highest moral character? Parents could be married (in fact, it was preferred), drink, smoke, and carry on, but teachers had to be prim, prissy paragons. We really don&#39;t need those days back. #ddtb Reshared post from +Wil Wheaton I&#39;m going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/we-dont-need-another-paragon.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We don&#39;t need another paragon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,23,46,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-parenting","category-school-daze","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8901,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/the_science_tha.html","url_meta":{"origin":26897,"position":0},"title":"The science that dare not speak its name","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Mar-06 2:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Discussion with administrators at a science educational facility in Arkansas about why certain topics (by name) are taboo when teaching \"science\": Both of the directors welcomed me warmly and were...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;School Daze&quot;","block_context":{"text":"School Daze","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/school-daze"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15713,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/04\/evil-presidential-speechifying-strikes-home.html","url_meta":{"origin":26897,"position":1},"title":"Evil Presidential Speechifying Strikes Home!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Sep-09 10:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just got this email from Kitten's elementary school's interim principal: Good afternoon, [schoolname] parents! \u00a0As so many questions about plans to view the education speech by President Obama have been circulating through various communities, [regular principal] and I want to let you know what [school]'s plans are for this event.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132116,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/27\/rip-fritz-weaver.html","url_meta":{"origin":26897,"position":2},"title":"RIP, Fritz Weaver","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 27-Nov-16 8:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Aw, man, another great actor I've enjoyed in so many things -- the tormented general in Fail Safe, the doctor in Holocaust ... and, growing up, seeing him in a couple of Twilight Zone episodes (the fleeing scientist in \"Third from the Sun,\" the totalitarian chancellor in \"The Obsolete Man\"),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8373,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/actually_this_m.html","url_meta":{"origin":26897,"position":3},"title":"Actually, this makes a disturbing amount of sense to me","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Dec-05 5:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A French Fry holder that fits into a standard car cup holder. 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