{"id":44824,"date":"2014-09-02T16:48:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T22:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/so-maybe-the-world-hasnt-gone-completely-crazy.html"},"modified":"2014-09-02T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T23:27:09","slug":"so-maybe-the-world-hasnt-gone-completely-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/so-maybe-the-world-hasnt-gone-completely-crazy.html","title":{"rendered":"So … maybe … the world hasn’t gone completely crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that the story last week (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/31\/which-is-dangerously-crazy-one-might-ask.html<\/a>) about an teacher who was hauled off Soviet-style for mental examination after it was discovered he had written a book that involved a school shooting in the future … was not altogether accurate.<\/p>\n

According to the authorities (who, it now seems, are back from a leisurely Labor Day vacation), the real issue had to do with a letter that the gent wrote. He is undergoing mental health care, but was never arrested.<\/p>\n

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\nMental health issues, not books, led to teacher’s suspension
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\nReports circulated this weekend that a middle school teacher in Dorchester County, Md., had been placed on administrative leave over his two futuristic novels about school violence. That is not that case, authorities tell the L.A. Times.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It seems that the story last week (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/31\/which-is-dangerously-crazy-one-might-ask.html) about an teacher who was hauled off Soviet-style for mental examination after it was discovered he had written a book that involved a school shooting in the future … was not altogether accurate. 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