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Brickbats

Brickbat: Star Teacher

Charles Oliver | 10.7.2016 4:00 AM

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Veronica Welsh teaches at Smithtown High School West in Long Island and says the school has quite a few racists. According to a Facebook post she made, you can spot them by the Donald Trump gear they wear.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    She's simply preparing her students for higher education.

  2. straffinrun   10 years ago

    World Language teacher? Would. Check out my dangling participle.

    1. Adans smith   10 years ago

      Kinda early for a masturbation euphemism .

      1. Libertarian   10 years ago

        Indeed. I think a punitive syntax should be levied.

        1. straffinrun   10 years ago

          What's the fine for a cunning linguist?

          1. Libertarian   10 years ago

            A three way with Huma and Hillary?

            1. straffinrun   10 years ago

              -}>

            2. Adans smith   10 years ago

              It's too early for the thought of Hillary naked also.

              1. Michael Price   10 years ago

                Yeah about 2234 AD would be the right time.

            3. Radioactive   10 years ago

              oh the humanity...rather have been burned along with the zeppelin

  3. Libertarian   10 years ago

    What I find interesting is that she thought it would be okay to say something like this in a public forum, even though she's a teacher. Reminds me of the story/link yesterday about the two Georgia cops making racist remarks. Intelligence and judgement are evidently not priorities when hiring our public servants.

    1. Lee Genes   10 years ago

      Didn't a teacher get fired recently for making disparaging remarks about Michelle Obama?

      1. WTF   10 years ago

        That's different, the Obamas are Democrats.

  4. Adans smith   10 years ago

    Top of the morning all.

  5. Libertarian   10 years ago

    OT. Opinions on the Putin banner in NYC requested. Hillary trolls*?

    http://nypost.com/2016/10/06/p.....an-bridge/

    *no pun intended, I swear

    1. straffinrun   10 years ago

      Vague enough that either side could've done it.

  6. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Welsh remains employed by the school, but has been administratively reassigned. The superintendent said the appropriate disciplinary action is being taken, but did not specify what that means.

    She has to write "Don't call students racists" one hundred times, pick up 50 papers in the playground, and clean the blackboard erasers for the next week.

  7. The Fusionist   10 years ago

    I'm surprised how much impact an accusation of racism can still have, even though SJWs have cheapened the term by using it against just about anyone who doesn't exactly share their retarded opinions.

    By now, it should just have become kind of a background noise.

    1. The Fusionist   10 years ago

      They really should have a new word for *real* racists, as in "Theodore Bilbo was a real-racist, not just a racist in the SJW sense."

      1. The Fusionist   10 years ago

        Bilbo was both a racist and a prog.

        "During his final tenure, educational reform measures were endorsed; economic policies that benefited white farmers was supported; and financial setbacks depleted the state treasury." What an unfortunate coincidence that the state should be having these financial problems just as the governor's wonderful reforms were being implemented!

        1. Adans smith   10 years ago

          Those two terms go together like beer and pizza. Progs must divide every one into groups to do their dirty work. The more groups the more 'victims ' .Of course,there has to be some hated groups to attack and steal wealth from.

    2. Lee Genes   10 years ago

      Eddie,

      You're not getting 8 hours of sleep. Your last post last night was at 10:42pm and your first post is at 6:03am.

      Your mom is concerned.

      1. The Fusionist   10 years ago

        Hmmm...I had this dream where I was posting on H&R, and woke up and discovered that I was.

        And if you think *my* mom is concerned, you should see the expression on *your* mom's face when I wake up early.

        1. Lee Genes   10 years ago

          You really should stop sleeping on her porch.

          1. The Fusionist   10 years ago

            Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?

  8. Crackers Boy   10 years ago

    And nothing else happened.

    CB

  9. puwodu15   10 years ago

    I can't beleve I just got an awesome Mercedes-Benz E-Class Wagon by working parttime online from home.
    see more at----------->>> http://tinyurl.com/Usatoday01

  10. Rich   10 years ago

    "There's no reason for her to pass judgement on those kids on a social platform," one parent told McLogan.

    "There's no reason for it; it's just our policy."

  11. Radioactive   10 years ago

    quite a few racists and more than a few dumb shits and fools

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