South Carolina teacher suspended for reading Ender's Game to his class

[thewayne]

ONE student's parent complained, claiming it was pornographic. Said parent is also pressing the police to arrest the teacher, thus far the police have not arrested the teacher

Comments

[vaudy]

I have a copy of Ender's Game around here somewhere that I just haven't gotten around to reading yet. I used to get a lot more reading done before I had constant internet access to waste my time with.

re: Facebook, I have read that job seekers are being increasingly asked for their passwords, especially if they do not have public profiles, and being turned down if they refuse to provide them.

[thewayne]

There's some serious legal issues involved in revealing your FB password. If the prospective employer uses it to log on to your account, FB has been threatening to sue them for hacking as they are not the account owner. I'm hoping some of these accounts are successful as that might quash this BS.

There are some things that just are not legal to ask in an interview, and there are some things that are gray. This one, currently, is not legal. I signed on to FB years ago and stopped using it very quickly when I saw their total disregard for user privacy, but I didn't delete my profile so I could on occasion check up on friends or let people know when my wife was playing with a celtic music group in Phoenix, and that's about it. Aside from that, I've deleted all my posts from FB.

[silveradept]

Having read Ender's Game, it's a very tame book for "content", considering that there is very little on-screen killing, just the commanding of ships and destruction on screens. It's all presented as just that - a game.

And there have to be at least three violations of privacy in asking for a personal Facebook password. It's none of your employer's damn business what you do when you're not on the clock.