I am so mad I want to punch something!

OK. DON'T GET MAD. Take action.

Immediately- now- call your boss, who ever sent out the e-mail that the e-mail was inappropriate and whoever is in charge of HR in your district and request a meeting ASAP. Tomorrow. It's urgent.

When you get your meeting, you say "This was sent out through the district e-mail. Mrs. Blahblah sent out an e-mail saying it was inappropriate. I agree. I want to know what actions have been taken to discipline Ms Hooha who sent it out. And, just for the record, I think the only possible discipline is immediate dismissal. This was inappropriate and unacceptable. What is being done?"

If they balk, say, All right, I will be at the next school board meeting to discuss this. And Do It. Find out who covers the school district for your local paper and give them the e-mail. (Save it on your home computer and print out several copies, too.) It's not a matter of the errors or the bias shown, it's a person using their position and job to campaign nnd making the school seem to take sides in a political campaign. I wouldn't ever discuss right or wrong- she used the intruments and network of her job to campaign for a political issue. No can do.

Don't be agry be firm. This person violated school rules. They also put the district in a very akward position. They need to go. Period.

If you need any more pep talks, private me. This is a war worth fighting.

Updated On: 10/20/08 at 07:05 PM

Makes me very sad for our future. Between this lovely gesture and that L.A. Times full-page ad today, I'm feeling like we're regressing as a nation to a pre-Stonewall era. Very frightening.

I still have to ask, "who are we threatening?" Those same religious extremists who easily allow divorce, even though their own wedding vows say, "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder"? The same God who says in their Bible, "Let women keep silent in the churches"?

This is exactly what I hate about organized religion and the brainwashing of its gullible followers.

The ban of gay marriage. It's a Crusade of Convenience. Protecting "traditional values," well at least SOME of them. They're willing to fight to the death for SECTIONS of the text in the Bible, but not all. In fact, some, they'll just ignore. Because they don't want to think about it.

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Jeez, what ELSE would you do if you were Colleen, Joe?

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Unfortunately, Addy, I am a little afraid for my job. I had to move 2000 miles just to get this job after two years of job searching in MN, and with the current budgetary situation music positions are even more difficult to come by now. And because of a health condition that requires constant monitoring I HAVE to have insurance (which isn't private, BTW, since I'd likely get disqualified as a pre-existing condition) so I don't want to do anything that would jeopardize my position.

Again, we have no union, so there would be no one to go to bat for me if I stirred the pot.

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Or post here.

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Okay, and this has nothing to do with anything, but I would just also like to add that I teach the offensive woman's children and her kids are both lazy little monsters.

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No, not particularly. I just wonder if maybe she spent a little less time worrying about whom is marrying whom and a little more time parenting her children if maybe they wouldn't be failing half their classes.

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Assign her kids a report on Tchaikovsky.

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I chose Tchaikovsky b/c he was gay. Eduacting the little cretins is the best revenge.

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