The kinda girl ya bring home to meet the parents.

"Mom? Dad? I'd like you to meet this utter nut job."


How do people like that even function? How is it possible to get on in the world when you have no grasp of reality?

Though there are times when recognizing it can be helpful.

Driving, for instance.

There are people who let their driving be controlled by abstract symbols - things like words on a sign or the color of a light strung up at an intersection - even if there is actually no cross traffic.

Because I like to think of my feet as individuals - Stephen Wright.

I don't know why your post made me think of that line, but it did!

All those pesky signs on the road...I know! Telling you how fast you can't go, where you shouldn't drive, how you shouldn't turn. Always so negative. So few of them are positive and uplifting. You never see a sign saying "You do that rather well!"

Why is that?

Anyway...the person in the OP still seems nice.

Riddle me that!

Years ago, after finishing grad school and while seeking employment, I took a job as a substitute teacher with a local school district.

The only thing they wanted to know about me was whether I had tuberculosis.

Since I did not have tuberculosis, I was thus fully qualified to take over classrooms full of students.

Seriously. I filled out an application and attached my TB test result. Expecting an interview of some kind, my first call back was to show up at a high school, report to the office where I was told by a staffer to go to the classroom of that teacher and the lesson plans should be on the desk.

No human being interacted with me in any significant way before they turned me loose on the kids.

At lunchtime, I asked some of the other teachers, "Isn't there any concern that I might be crazy?" and one of them looked at me and asked, "Okay, are you crazy?" I said no, and that settled the matter.

"How much do you hate the Romans?"

"A LOT!"

"Right. You're in"

Seems pretty straightforward!

While I was actually able to take over math and science courses and became frequently-requested by teachers of those subjects, the rest of the time was sort of "choose your own adventure".

I once had an English class who had just finished reading The Great Gatsby. I had only ever seen the movie.

Imagine my surprise when one of the kids broke the news to me, "The book doesn't end that way."

I would have sent the kid to the Vice Principals office for insubordination!

Little smart alec correcting me when I clearly don't have a clue! How dare you?!?

Lots of high tech, good tax base.

seems like she'd fit in well there

MAGAhatters need heroes too!

I mean, other than maybe his taste in music, how is MLK even connected to her subject? It sounds like she had a very large ax to grind and she picked the wrong place to do it. This woman deserves to be fired IMHO.

Must be stopped.

She should be forced to write a letter of apology to each student and to their parents. And barred from teaching ever again.
How dare an "authority figure" state such crap!!

This insanity is contagious among the MAGA assholes. It's passed by word-of-mouth as fact. They don't read.