The Continuing Crisis . . . Déjà Vu All Over Again

Teacher Hauled Off Over "Inappropriate" Remarks

Stories like this one always lead me to ask follow-up questions like these:

1. If this guy made "inappropriate comments toward the school" (and I'm not even going to begin to dissect the choice of toward rather than about in that quote—the possibilities are too many), why isn't the school revealing what those comments were? As is always the case when schools and other institutions violate the civil rights of others (disregarding, for a moment, my closing paragraph), they prefer to keep it on the down-low until they can create suitable cover and check the public reaction through media and focus groups.
2. Which leads me to ask, "WTF?" What lame-ass reporter is unable to find a single student from the class where he supposedly uttered these comments, in order to determine what those comments were? Is the reporter too lazy? Or did the school tell NBC it could cover the story, but no digging around to find out what the actual comments were? NBC had no problem finding students to quote from the period in which he was escorted away. Or maybe the school actually told NBC what the comments were, but that they couldn't be used in the story. Irrespective of whether any of the foregoing theories is true, without better reporting, this story is essentially worthless, other than the single newsy item: an administration chose to have cops escort a teacher, not being arrested, from the campus, because they are complete pussies. 
3. By all accounts, this guy is one of the most talented and passionate music teachers in the San Diego Unified School District. Interesting that once again, it's the rebels who SDUSD wants to toss out. And for supposedly saying something critical about the school. Woe be to us if we let some teacher say something not approved by the district, in front of high school students. Much better that they get all their opinions from other worldly high school students, or from administration-approved propaganda. 

Oh, I get it, I really do. The school is entitled to put someone on leave for saying something critical about the school—employers are entitled to have a code of conduct that is more restrictive than our Constitution provides for in public forums. I'm just saying they're idiots, that's all. 

Nice photo, by the way, NBC. I'm a terrible photographer, but I can take a better, more descriptive photo than that.