So I spent last week working with teachers from all over my state on some alignment

It was actually a great experience. We aligned our alternative test for severely disabled kids to state standards and DOKs and developmental norms, etc.

I was in a group with 6 other teachers, half special ed and half general ed. I learned a lot and got some great materials to share with my co-workers. Met some great folks, we worked together well as a group and exchanged email addresses on the last day.

Then it started. One of these teachers is apparently a rabid wingnut and has been emailing right wing crap to my school email. I even wrote on the list where I added my email that personal and non school related email should come to my personal email - and I added it to the list.

But this brainiac apparently can't read. I have received 6 wingnut chain emails from her so far. She has ignored my requests to stop sending me this crap to my school email. Our email program sucks and I don't even know how to spam her out so I have to call our tech department and figure out how to get rid of this crap in my inbox.

Oh and if you didn't already know, Ollie North is a hero, a German woman was more deserving of the Nobel Prize than Al Gore and Obama wasn't born in the US. I forget the rest of the emails. They were all disgusting. I finally replied with a very polite request to stop sending these emails to my school email and feel free to use my personal email - but since I am a far left very liberal Democrat, be prepared for a 'reply all' debunking the wingnut crap she was sending. Maybe that will stop her. I hope.

How can a college educated person who teaches children believe this crap? I know I sound naive, but I am in an urban district where the Democratic teachers far outnumber the wingnuts. I thank gawd all the time that I am not surrounded by idiots like this, either at work or in my personal life.

Just had to vent. LOL

And I've known quite a few in my 14 years here.

Hope you can get her blocked. What a dope.

I told her I was going to a conference near where she lives and she said I should call her and we could go have dinner.

Yuck.

emails like that were prohibited, and teachers sending them were written up.

You might want to forward them on to the department that makes the rules for technology use, and ask that someone speak to her.

Our superintendent has made it clear that school e-mail may not be used to e-mail political material. I was getting crap from a colleague and it would not stop even after I asked her to stop so I alerted the tech dept., for a second time (first time they sent out another mass warning), and they put a 30 day block on her account so that she could receive but not send e-mail unless it was a reply to an e-mail she'd received. That was effective.

Alert on her.... she's been asked to stop and didn't. That amounts to harassment. I had a similar issue with a wingnut parent. When I asked him to stop he said it was important that students knew that Obama was Muslim. Nut case. He still didn't stop so I forwarded a couple of the emails including my request for him to stop to the principal. It stopped! The prinicpal told him to stop or "further action" would ensue. Especially since I'd had the nutjob's daughter the year before and he had no reason to be emailing me to begin with.

Sorry... didn't want that to be so personal. School officials will act if given evidence of the inappropriate emails and of your trying to get them to stop on your own to no avail.