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  • blog image The Gay Animal Kingdom

    added on 31 Oct 2009

    I still don't have any additional details, but the initial newspaper report from the Jacksonville Journal-Courier is disturbing: A Southwestern High School English teacher has been suspended after reports he had students in his classes to read an article about homsexuality in the animal kingdom....

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  • The Frontal Cortex The Gay Animal Kingdom

    posted to The Frontal Cortex on 30 Oct 2009

    I still don't have any additional details, but the initial newspaper report from the Jacksonville Journal-Courier is disturbing: A Southwestern High School English teacher has been suspended after reports he had students in his classes to read an article about homsexuality in the animal kingdom....

  • A Blog Around The Clock Tweetlinks, 10-30-09

    posted to A Blog Around The Clock on 31 Oct 2009

    Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people): On science writing and ...

  • The Questionable Authority Seed Magazine in the Classroom: Grounds for Suspending the Teacher??

    posted to The Questionable Authority on 31 Oct 2009

    Apparently, offering high school English students the chance to read an article on the Seed Magazine website is ground for suspension - at least if you're an English teacher in Piasa, Illinois. According to several media reports, teacher Dan DeLong has been suspended with pay pending a Monday e...

  • Greg Laden's Blog Teacher Suspended, Seed Magazine Banned, Teh Gay Blamed.

    posted to Greg Laden's Blog on 31 Oct 2009

    Dan Delong teaches English at Southwester High School in Piasa, Illinois. He has been suspended for assigning an article originally published in Seed Magazine called "The Gay Animal Kingdom." If you are a teacher you know what to do.. download that article and assign it to all of your students...

  • Pharyngula I thought that, if anyone, it would be me

    posted to Pharyngula on 01 Nov 2009

    I'm feeling a bit jealous. A teacher was suspended for assigning a reading from one of those subversive, radical bloggers, and it wasn't me! It was Jonah Lehrer! The article was about the prevalence of homosexuality among animals. Apparently the thought that homosexuality might occur naturally, ...