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Another Brick in the Wall …
Now, if you thought that showing a bunch of 8th graders Brokeback Mountain during class was bad, then get a load of Bruce Smith. Smith teaches history to high-schoolers in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Only, Smith has an unusual lesson plan. According to a lawsuit filed presumably by the parents of one of Smith’s students, Bruce liked to show pictures of female corpses, discuss push-up bras with his female students, and talk about his own exploits, including the time he skipped class to “bang a cheerleader.” In addition, according to The Smoking Gun:
Smith provided students “his sexually explicit Memoirs of a Class President,” which includes passages about oral sex and other raunchy activity. The [plaintiffs] contend that after filing “verbal and written requests” for school brass to address Smith’s classroom behavior, they were “retaliated against” by administrators who disclosed their identity, allowed Smith to “scare victims,” and directed the teacher to contact them at home “to somehow excuse his offensive, sexual conduct.”
Man, this is why teachers are so uncool these days. You show one corpse during class or talk about banging one chick back in high school, and you’ve suddenly got a lawsuit on your hands.
