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Prof gets fired for Virginia Tech re-enactment
Professor gets fired for re-enacting the Virginia TEch shootings in a class discussion.
A professor has been fired from his job at a Catholic college in Boston after leading his class in a discussion about the shootings at Virginia Tech two days afterward.
Financial accounting professor Nicholas Winset pretended to shoot some students during the discussion at Emmanuel College. One student then pretended to shoot Winset to show that the gunman could have been stopped if someone else had been armed.
Winset says the school asked faculty to engage students on the issue, but on Friday he received a letter saying he was fired and ordering him to stay off campus.
Winset says the school is stifling free speech by dismissing him.
Posted by: masayume_soto
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Posted in: News on April 23, 2007 @ 12:00 AM
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What I think is stupid is that the school asked teachers to have discussions, and he was showing what to do in that situation, which is a very real situation. It's like firing him for doing a Lockdown Drill.
Why are people so uptight? Just because a few people MIGHT be offended by something, does the action have to be seen as a crime? It's just... Dumb. Know da mean?
wtf? They ask him to do something, then fire him when he does a good job of it?
lol
He must've done too good of a job, eh?