Oklahoma is not OK.
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old texas “joke” incoming:
“why does texas not slide into the gulf of mexico?”
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“because oklahoma sucks!”
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It’s weird but it’s almost like Oklahoma is having a hard time retaining school teachers and hiring school teachers.
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This is no doubt a stupid question, however what infraction of the rules of their employment have the teachers committed that enables the school board to dismiss them without notice and so on?
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Some teachers (and other groups, like pro athletes) have a “morals clause” in their contracts, which have been used to try to police behavior of teachers on their off-time. They are legal, but potentially difficult to enforce. Here’s some info:
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/what-is-a-morality-clause-is-it-legal/
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they’re counting on teachers who commit crimethought* to not have the time, resources, or inclination to fight it, with or without union or ACLU support. After all, the Superintendent knows how little they’re paid.
*Granted, it’s already illegal to directly threaten the POTUS, so part of this is grandstanding B.S., but even then, my understanding is that you’re just as likely to get a polite-but-firm talking to from the Secret Service as you are to get arrested, depending on your choice of words. I remember another blogger (wish I remembered enough to find the link, but it was many years ago) who shared a story of being reported to the Secret Service for a comment that somebody construed as a threat to Dubya. He said they were very professional and there were ultimately no long-term consequences for him (except probably being on a watch list), but he didn’t recommend the experience.
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Wishing someone had died from an event that’s already happened does not, by any reasonable person’s interpretation, constitute a threat. Plus, Trump is not the President. None of these statements people are making along the lines of wishing the shooter hadn’t missed are going to result in a visit from Secret Service. A statement like that about the current President…maybe. But not a former President.
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I agree, and I probably obscured my point with that digression. Using a morals clause or other shaky means against teachers is of course a way of trying to punish these teachers (and glorify the Orange Turd Messiah) (and pwn the libs) when the law otherwise would not.
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It would be nice if they put that much effort into preventing school shootings.
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Looks like someone’s bucking for a job as Minister of Education in Lord Dampnut’s reich.
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It is worth noting here that actual threats against the currently sitting president — or wishes that someone else visit harm to him – are regularly made. Some of those, I imagine, come from schoolteachers. I wonder whether the Oklahoma State Superintendent has spent a single iota of effort tracking down and firing teachers who might have made statements of that sort. I also wonder whether, if (as I suspect) he has not, whether that fact might give anyone fired for Trump jokes a persuative legal argument to appeal their dismissal.
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Nah, Education is first to the chopping block. Don’t need no education to just do as yer told.
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Just like Lord Dampnut’s previous head of that department, he is there to destroy it.
Hence, the title Minister of Education.
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