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Half the school board thinks Keith deserves a third chance (that's right, not his first time making inappropriate comments to a child).

They say only he can decide if he wants to step down. They did vote in favor of censuring him. The rest of the school board members that laughed during the comment and touching of a child faced no repercussion. Some even pretended to be offended during the emergency hearing.

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

There's not one man in that entire city who is willing to do thirty days in jail to kick this guy's ass?

Not one bored retiree with honor?

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 1 points 2 hours ago

Tennessee...

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Curious, when's the last time you took a misdemeanor to kick some guy's ass in jail?

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

About ten-eleven years ago, I hit a guy in a grocery store because I saw him bitch-slap his preschool aged daughter who had asked for cheerios.

It was crazy because his wife stepped to me after that. I have never hit a woman, but that mouthy trashmonster was almost my first. I was a lot more naive than I am now, because I honestly thought she'd be appreciative of the fact that the guy bleeding on the floor was no longer assaulting her 3 or 4 year old sweetheart. Instead, she got in my face and started screaming.

I said some choice words that I will not repeat as they were offensive and, at times, misogynistic.

Anyway, I left before any cops got called so I didn't get arrested or face any consequences. Left my cart in the aisle and shopped across town later than night.

Would happily do it again.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 13 points 5 hours ago

Dude's electronics should have been seized and searched immediately.

Wheres all the 'kill your local pedophile' talk now?

[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

They started the meeting with a prayer about "keeping their minds on the children", followed by the most robotic sounding pledge of allegiance I've ever heard, and then they proceeded to pardon the predator, mostly using religious "grace" as a justification. America!

[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 25 points 7 hours ago

Think about what it's said and done when cameras are off.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 47 points 9 hours ago (12 children)

Willing to put a month's wages down on which party he's affiliated with.

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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 44 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept." --Lt. Gen. David Morrison, former head of Australian Army.

Amusingly he was talking about a situation where male soldiers were sexually assaulting female soldiers, while a larger group of servicemembers knew this was happening but did nothing to stop or report or prevent it.

He's 100% right though. The standard this school board walks past, and thus the standard they accept, is one of their own sexually harassing a teenage girl.

Every one of them that laughed or snickered or whatever should be removed.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

We've been "walking past" this since at least 1961. Americans excell at ignoring our check engine lights.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

You had genocide and slavery sitting right there and you went with economics for your dashboard analogy, a bold choice.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 43 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

why would he be removed? he goes to church on Sunday.

also, bring back punching people in the face in public

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