Continuing the recent trend of family-oriented entertainment here at The Toot (promise that won’t last long you depraved heathens), it is time now to praise the children. In that spirit, allow me to make the studied observation that this kid really knows what time is it:
Jay McDowell, a teacher in Howell, Michigan, was temporarily suspended without pay earlier this month after telling a student wearing a Confederate flag and a student making anti-gay remarks to get out of his class. At a school-board meeting on Friday, openly gay 14-year-old high-school student Graeme Taylor came to McDowell’s defense, thanking the teacher for doing “an amazing thing” in a town home to the KKK, and urging the school board to give McDowell his pay and reverse the disciplinary actions.
Go watch the video.
November 15, 2010 at 7:17 pm
As Glenn Beck would surely tell us (backed up by no less an authority than Rush Limbaugh), we must make certain that we do not hurt the bigot’s feelings or damage his self esteem. After all, homophobic racists are a terribly oppressed minority who have no advantages in this world.
November 15, 2010 at 7:46 pm
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/ptero
November 16, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Wow. What guts. This kid is fantastic.
November 16, 2010 at 7:10 pm
What an awesome kid! Graeme Taylor for our first gay President! (In a few years.)
November 17, 2010 at 11:41 am
Oh boo-hoo. It sounds like the teacher was violating a student’s first amendment rights, so why should we feel sorry for him.
Speaking of teachers, did you see the recent Alissa Ploshnick case? She’s a teacher and was recently fired for some reason or another, but then it comes out that in 1997 she caused significant property damage to a citizen’s vehicle. And was she fired for this? No, and some people even said it was justified. She kept her job and wasn’t even disciplined. Teaching, what a racket.
November 17, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Floyd, that sarcasm is much to subtle.
November 17, 2010 at 2:18 pm
..so subtle, that I forgot how too spell. Also. Too.
November 17, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Let us get gnarly: