California Teacher Sneezes, Emits Evil Spirits

California Teacher Sneezes, Emits Evil Spirits

This is the show from Thursday September 29th, 2011.

SUMMARY:

* GERMS: Fresno Public School Teacher Steve Cuckovich: After penalizing student grades for those who say, "God bless you," to someone who sneezes in class, Cuckovich admits that he simply cannot think of any reason that a student might want to say such a kind word in passing to another student. In a troubling development regarding the Cuckovich motive, researchers have determined that the origin of the effort to stop believers from making Christian statements goes back to ancient government workers who would then kill the Christians who persisted in sharing God's blessings with others. Janet Napolitano has now set up a homeland security task force to investigate Cuckovich's background and motivations. Stay tuned.



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* GERMS: Fresno Public School Teacher Steve Cuckovich: After penalizing student grades for those who say, "God bless you," to someone who sneezes in class, Cuckovich admits that he simply cannot think of any reason that a student might want to say such a kind word in passing to another student. In a troubling development regarding the Cuckovich motive, researchers have determined that the origin of the effort to stop believers from making Christian statements goes back to ancient government workers who would then kill the Christians who persisted in sharing God's blessings with others. Janet Napolitano has now set up a homeland security task force to investigate Cuckovich's background and motivations. Stay tuned.

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The Onion, right? :chuckle:

some other dude said:

The Onion, right? :chuckle:

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'Fraid not.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011...enforces-bless-you-ban-for-classroom-sneezes/

According to the teacher and staff, the issue wasn't about censoring a religious blessing but rather about some of the kids causing purposeful disorder in the classroom.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Steve-Cuckovich-Defends-Sneezing-Policy-130806173.html

From the article: "It was brought to the District’s attention a few days ago that students were disciplined for being disruptive in class. The teacher believed that students were dramatically sneezing and responding in repetitive fashion “Bless You”. One of the concerns is the social convention of saying “Gesundheit”, “God Bless You”, or “Bless You” after someone sneezes. Of question is whether a series of these repeated remarks by several students constitutes freedom of speech or a classroom disruption and merits student discipline. Vacaville Unified’s Administration is continuing its investigation of this reported classroom disruption. We are reviewing the impact of this disruption and the student grading policy. Certainly a blessing by one individual to another after a sneeze is a welcomed acknowledgement of a social norm. Hopefully it is not abused as a disruption of classroom instructional activities." Dr. John Niederkorn, Superintendent.

One of the students interviewed on this tape agreed with the teacher that the students were repeatedly using the phrase to distract from the classroom.

Any body see the following quote in any other links besides the one from Enyart?

Janet Napolitano has now set up a homeland security task force to investigate Cuckovich's background and motivations. Stay tuned.

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If so, please post it!

Rusha said:

According to the teacher and staff, the issue wasn't about censoring a religious blessing but rather about some of the kids causing purposeful disorder in the classroom.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Steve-Cuckovich-Defends-Sneezing-Policy-130806173.html

From the article: "It was brought to the District’s attention a few days ago that students were disciplined for being disruptive in class. The teacher believed that students were dramatically sneezing and responding in repetitive fashion “Bless You”. One of the concerns is the social convention of saying “Gesundheit”, “God Bless You”, or “Bless You” after someone sneezes. Of question is whether a series of these repeated remarks by several students constitutes freedom of speech or a classroom disruption and merits student discipline. Vacaville Unified’s Administration is continuing its investigation of this reported classroom disruption. We are reviewing the impact of this disruption and the student grading policy. Certainly a blessing by one individual to another after a sneeze is a welcomed acknowledgement of a social norm. Hopefully it is not abused as a disruption of classroom instructional activities." Dr. John Niederkorn, Superintendent.

One of the students interviewed on this tape agreed with the teacher that the students were repeatedly using the phrase to distract from the classroom.

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In other words, another failed public school teacher who can't control his classroom.

You sure this doesn't come from Texas? :chuckle:

One Eyed Jack said:

'Fraid not.

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You called?

Yep, another news story where Pastor Bob completely missed the point.

It's an old game kids play with teachers who aren't too good at classroom management.

They fake a sneeze, several people say "bless you", and maybe in the noise, a little cheating gets done.

The trick is to simply write a detention for talking.

"But I said, 'God bless you.'"

"Maybe so; but you know the rule is 'no talking during quizzes.'"

"But you can't give me a detention for saying 'God bless you!'"

"Nice try. Sign here."

Always works for me.

I sometimes wonder if Bob genuinely doesn't realise that he's grossly misrepresenting actual events based on his blindingly obvious agenda, or if he knows he's being dishonest and simply doesn't care?

It reminds me of this bogus 'immigrant allowed to stay because he had a cat' story that Tories are bandying up and down Britain at the moment.

Rusha said:

According to the teacher and staff, the issue wasn't about censoring a religious blessing but rather about some of the kids causing purposeful disorder in the classroom.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Steve-Cuckovich-Defends-Sneezing-Policy-130806173.html

From the article: "It was brought to the District’s attention a few days ago that students were disciplined for being disruptive in class. The teacher believed that students were dramatically sneezing and responding in repetitive fashion “Bless You”. One of the concerns is the social convention of saying “Gesundheit”, “God Bless You”, or “Bless You” after someone sneezes. Of question is whether a series of these repeated remarks by several students constitutes freedom of speech or a classroom disruption and merits student discipline. Vacaville Unified’s Administration is continuing its investigation of this reported classroom disruption. We are reviewing the impact of this disruption and the student grading policy. Certainly a blessing by one individual to another after a sneeze is a welcomed acknowledgement of a social norm. Hopefully it is not abused as a disruption of classroom instructional activities." Dr. John Niederkorn, Superintendent.

One of the students interviewed on this tape agreed with the teacher that the students were repeatedly using the phrase to distract from the classroom.

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According to the interview of the teacher from this video (the 30 second mark):

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011...enforces-bless-you-ban-for-classroom-sneezes/

It appears his reasoning was it is a disruption because "...what you are doing doesn't make any sense any more" in reply to the origin of the phrase.

There doesn't seem to be an indication from the teacher in the video that there was a free for all "Bless You" repeatedly being said by students.

If course the video doesn't give the whole interview but just in the clip that is shown it suggests that the reason was because "...it doesn't make any sense any more."

To be fair, the 'bless you' superstition comes from the mediæval belief that sneezing temporarily dislodged your soul and left it open to being snatched by a demon. Which doesn't make sense any more regardless of your theological position.

I wonder if he's planning to ban them from saying "Goodbye".