Out, damned spot

Back when I was in school, there were teachers I didn’t like. Of course, that’s how school (and life) works.

Some of these teachers I didn’t like my parents also didn’t like. And they may have silently grumbled or complained or whatever. I don’t really know what they did. What they didn’t do was take out an ad in a local paper hoping to get that teacher barred from teaching.

Wait, it gets better: The reason for the ad wasn’t because the substitute teacher does a bad job. She could be Peggy Hill-quality for all I know. No, the reason he wants her barred is because she used to be a he. Lady Macbeth used to be Sir Macbeth.

At least by the NBC 10 story about her, there seems to be no real problem with her teaching. But Mark Schnepp, parent of an Eagleswood, N.J., high school student, doesn’t want his child taught by no man-turned-woman. He also wants his kid to live in a giant protective plastic bubble where he can teach little junior to be an asshole in peace.

Fair enough. Mr. Schnepp has every right to do that. He has every right to say this teacher shouldn’t be instructing his kids. However, he doesn’t think that Lady Macbeth has any right to teach his kid. You see, he’s an expert in the First Amendment:

Schnepp, who is a Methodist, said that Macbeth’s sex change is against his religion and the school board is violating his rights if Macbeth enters a classroom.

Freedom of religion, indeed! In fact, Schnepp’s fight is just like when Jesus took that ad out in the Nazareth Times-Herald saying all the prostitutes should be stoned to death.

Transgender Teacher Angers Eagleswood Parent [NBC 10]