From Democracy Project comes a story so completely asinine that it boggles the mind. It’s a bit old, but I want to give it more coverage.

Larry Neace has spent 23 of the past 26 years teaching physics — not an easy subject — to high school studen…

Larry Neace has spent 23 of the past 26 years teaching physics — not an easy subject — to high school students in the formerly small town of Dacula, Georgia. In the wee hours of this morning, the Gwinnett County…

There’s a saying that the a goes rotten from the head, and so seems the case with that institution…

Michelle Malkin says here that she that she wants us to “support this public school teacher” — meaning the one named in this AP story. Teacher fired after lowering grade of sleeping athlete The Associated Press – ATLANTA A Gwinnett…

Now I chose that title very deliberately. That isn’t the way the story is being presented in the media, or being argued by the teacher and his lawyers. But when one cuts through all the rhetoric, histrionics, and outcry, that…

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This is from Michelle Malkin. The Gwinnett Co. School Board has made a big mistake in firing this teacher. They are setting a bad precedent. Michelle Malkin…

Dacula High School science teacher Larry “Doc” Neace was fired by the Gwinnett County School Board last night. Neace was found insubordinate after failing a football player who fell asleep in his class, and refusing direct orders to change the…

Michelle Malkin points out a high school teacher in Georgia who has been fired for refusing to raise a grade for an athlete. She also points to an excellent post on this subject: Is That High School Teacher Strict? Then Fire Him!…

I was a high school science teacher for three years and consider it to be 3 of the most wasted years of my life. I had lots of wonderful kids, but I rarely had time to spend on them due to the usual rogues gallery of miscreants in my classroom,

I don’t think the teacher should’ve been fired. I also don’t think the student should’ve gotten a reduced grade JUST b/c he wasn’t paying attention. If it was a problem and he needed a nap, he should’ve been given detention – not a reduction in his g…

We can’t have teachers enforcing discipline in their classrooms. The students might learn something.

A follow-up to “Killing Kids With Kindness” including the Neace update.

Democracy Project tells the story of veteran physics teacher Larry Neace, who was fired from his job. His crime? He enforced a decade-old policy of penalizing students for wasting time in class. He had a student that slept in class…

SUPPORT THIS PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER From the unbelievable public school follies file. Well, actually, entirely believable: A Gwinnett County teacher was fired early Friday after refusing to raise a student athlete’s grade he lowered because the student …