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	doomsday 2008-05-07 03:14 am UTC (link)
	Well hey, maybe there's an opening at Hogwarts. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	aristaea 2008-05-07 05:05 pm UTC (link)
	Did that Defense Against the Dark Arts position ever get filled? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	soupspooks 2008-05-07 03:20 am UTC (link)
	stare What? (Reply to this)

	thebratqueen 2008-05-07 03:28 am UTC (link)
	I'm starting to hate how often links that should lead to Onion articles do not actually lead to Onion articles. (Reply to this)

	deliciouschaos 2008-05-07 03:29 am UTC (link)
	Well, shit, I used to be able to do coin tricks. NO MORE THE BURNING TIEMS! (Reply to this)

	inappropriate 2008-05-07 03:30 am UTC (link)
	Teacher Jim Piculas does a magic trick where a toothpick disappears and then reappears. Piculas said he then got a call from the supervisor of teachers, saying he'd been accused of wizardry. Uhhh... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	inappropriate 2008-05-07 03:37 am UTC (link)
	Okay I thought of something more to say. With that kinda reaction, you'd think he was conjuring fucking fireballs in the middle of class. "LOL Sorry I burned off all your hair with that fireball Little Jimmy! I'm still taking my advanced wizardry classes." I mean, really.... Wizardry... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	erototoxin 2008-05-07 03:32 am UTC (link)
	Just a handful. I'm related to all of them. Hey, they don't know it was batshit Christians. It could have been a rival wizard with a grudge! (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	sisterelwood 2008-05-07 03:38 am UTC (link)
	headdesk Okay, they fire him for something that isn't even real? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	snarkhunter 2008-05-07 03:58 am UTC (link)
	There isn't enough WTFery in the world for this. It's a non-renewable resource, people! Soon, there won't be enough WTFery to fulfill our obviously-increasing need to shriek WTF at patent absurdity. Can't we just take Stephen Colbert's advice and castrate America by cutting off Florida? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	chibikaijuu 2008-05-07 04:02 am UTC (link)
	I know this is unfunnybusines, but I LOLed. Hard. Wizardry? REALLY? Over a slight-of-hand trick? It's both horrifying and awesomely, ridiculously, hilariously dumb at the same time. boggles (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	miraba 2008-05-07 04:07 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure I can believe people are actually that dumb. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	jkefka 2008-05-07 04:07 am UTC (link)
	Wh-wha... So I had a chemistry teacher in highschool who taught us how to set water on fire. Does this mean she was a witch? ... BURN THE WITCH! (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	rosehiptea 2008-05-07 04:28 am UTC (link)
	They seriously, really... We have people like that in California too though. But seriously, MORONS. (Reply to this)

	iwanttobeasleep 2008-05-07 04:42 am UTC (link)
	Can anyone come up with some sort of logical reasoning for this? It seems to me that they either got someone fired for a simple trick anyone could learn, or they actually thought it was witchcraft, and both are so WTF I can't comprehend it. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	nostariel 2008-05-07 04:56 am UTC (link)
	I know I should be horrified, but I just CAN'T. STOP. LAUGHING. Wizardry. Wizardry. Wizardry?! I'm sorry, but with all of the horrible things that have happened over the past month or so, giggles are all I've got left for people who are so clearly batshit. Wizardry, WTF. (Reply to this)

	erototoxin 2008-05-07 04:59 am UTC (link)
	I found some more information in the area newspaper. http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/06/pa-presto-teacher-out-of-a-job/ (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	khym_chanur 2008-05-07 05:04 am UTC (link)
	From Burning Prairie's comment: I think the important questions to ask are 1)did he turn me into a newt? and 2)can we make a bridge out of him? snerk (Reply to this)

	rekall 2008-05-07 05:22 am UTC (link)
	I'm sure Hogwarts could use a new DADA teacher. He should apply there. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	suthunfox 2008-05-07 10:01 am UTC (link)
	we don't call it Flori-DUH for nothing, but wow - that's pretty speschul. (Reply to this)

	esclaramonde 2008-05-07 10:48 am UTC (link)
	But has he been blackballed from the guild? (Reply to this)

silrana
2008-05-07 11:28 am UTC (link)

I should point out that the only one saying he was fired for 'wizardry' is him. The school district has a list of reasons, and he latched on to one to make himself look like the poor wounded victim.

It might help if I provided a little context, since I live in the general part of Florida where this happened. In the last couple of years there has been a rash of teacher-student sex cases. One county declared they would have annual seminars to remind teachers of 'proper ethics'. (Excuse me, but is "don't fuck the students" really that difficult a concept?) There have been lots of complaints of schools spending more time on special programs than actual course work - as a friend of mine put it, "My kid can quote Al Gore but he doesn't know what mitosis is."

So anyway, there has been lots of public outcry for the schools to actual spend some time educating children instead of warehousing them or substituting them for the singles scene. In that kind of atmosphere, a student teacher who spends his time goofing off is not going to go over well. And if he was spending too much time socializing with some of the students, he was cooked, because the school systems around here are paranoid as hell about having more cases in the news.

To give you an idea, last week's new case was a teacher fired and arrested after taking a 16yo girl on a series of "field trips" to the zoo, the beach, the mall... just her and him. With predictable results.

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	izzygal 2008-05-07 05:07 pm UTC (link)
	Not to be pedantic or anything, but where does it say that the people who complained were Christians? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	wonderfish 2008-05-07 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, I know we don't know what really happened here, but all I can think is "man, if you have to report on job applications that you were fired, 'accused of wizardry' has got to be the best thing that you can put down." (Reply to this)

	velvet_mace 2008-05-07 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	ZOMG someone tried to make education entertaining! That might lead to kids paying attention in class, and THAT could lead to smartass kids who think they are too good for minimum wage! Thank god they fired that teacher. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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