Comment #5

jarasan — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:01:52 GMT

Yeah, but making a movie about assasinating Bush was totally OK and cool.

Comment #4

justxploring — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:01:16 GMT

The teacher should be fired. It blows my mind that he wasn't.

Comment #3

konane — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:49:15 GMT

<br />Anyone's personal records are private and should be protected by laws against hacking.

Comment #2

Tenaj — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:15:20 GMT

I'm glad the people who broke into his personal records got jail time. Too bad this teacher will not be fired.

Comment #1

sully16 — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:37:59 GMT

The man is sick and needs serious mental help than a nice prison sentence.

Original Blog Entry: Teacher uses assassination of President Obama to teach angles

truesee — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:10:09 GMT

Jefferson County geometry teacher uses wrong example to teach angles --- assassination of President Barack Obama

May 18, 2010, 6:30AM

Carol Robinson --- Marie Leech

The Birmingham News

UPDATE: Geometry teacher who used Obama assassination as example placed on leave

A Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example when he used as sassinating President Bar ack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geome try students.

Someone alerted autho rities and the Corner High School math teacher was questioned by the Secret Service, but was not taken into custody or charged with any crime.

We did not find a credible threat, said Roy Sex ton, special agent in charge of Birmingham's Secret Service office. As far as the Secret Service is concerned, we looked into it, we talked to the gentleman and we have closed our investigation.

A Corner High geometry teacher picked the wrong example, President Barack Obama, to use in a lesson on angles. The lesson resulted in a Secret Service investigation. (AP) Sexton said he generally doesn't discuss threat cases, but confirmed his of fice investigated the inci dent. No federal charges followed the probe.

The teacher was appar ently teaching his geometry students about parallel lines and angles, officials said. He used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama.

He was talking about angles and said, 'If you're in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,' said Joseph Brown, a senior in the geometry class.

Efforts to reach the teacher for comment Mon day were unsuccessful. Superintendent Phil Hammonds said the teacher remains at work, and there are no plans for termination.

We are going to have a long conversation with him about what's appropriate, Hammonds said. It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words.

Caroline Polk, the parent of a ninth-grader at the school, said she doesn't be lieve the teacher ought to be fired.

We all make mistakes, and we should be able to learn from our mistakes, she said. What he said was just wrong and inappropri ate. Everyone's got their own opinions, but we have to be aware of our sur roundings. At this point, it just needs to be handled in a way that it won't be re peated.

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