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UK teacher in trouble for "bomb joke".
Now, this was obviously a tasteless joke and this teacher is obviously an idiot. However, why should this sort of thing make it into a newspaper? I see this all the time in the States. A teacher says something "offensive" and is either flamed by the press or even fired, for just one mistake. Teachers are hard to find. Should people just have to learn to be a little less sensitive?
A TEACHER faces a police quiz after allegedly telling pupils: "Behave or I'll put a bomb on your bus."
Palestinian-born Mazin Albarq was said to have made the sick joke to a class of 13 and 14-year-olds.
Parents complained and headteacher Maureen Bates contacted police.
Pupils in supply teacher Mr Albarq's class may also be questioned over a possible charge of threatening criminal damage.
The parent of one 14-year-old said: "Children who use the school bus were terrified. It was surely meant as a joke but in the present climate there was nothing remotely funny."
Now, this was obviously a tasteless joke and this teacher is obviously an idiot. However, why should this sort of thing make it into a newspaper? I see this all the time in the States. A teacher says something "offensive" and is either flamed by the press or even fired, for just one mistake. Teachers are hard to find. Should people just have to learn to be a little less sensitive?