It seems that a teacher was involved in producing child pornography with his students.
I do not know the details, but I have heard this scandal mentioned several times.
What I've heard sounds very bad, but I am disappointed that no one comments upon two other scandalous facts.
First of all the local high school has chosen as a "mascot" a missile--"rockets".
Can a rocket--an instrument for killing people--really be put in the same category as
a cute animal?
Doesn't anyone realize that such killing tools primarily kill women and children--non-combatants? It's a fact about modern warfare that it primarily kills civilians. Why would anyone want to celebrate killing? Do they think: Our football team will wipe out the other team just like missiles kill? Has anyone even thought about it?
Or, more likely, is there internal censorship? People are afraid to point out the obvious. It would be "bad manners" or in "bad taste".
Or, are the educators completely clueless?
The second invisible scandal is the enormous parking lot filled with vehicles driven by students.
Sorry, but high school students don't, in general, need to drive to school. It cannot be that every single one of those vehicles is driven by a student who lives far away and who could not possibly take a school bus. I don't believe it.
Apparently, the teachers and administrators at this school are ignorant.
They do not know that climate change is real and that it is caused by human activity.
These two invisible scandals typify the low level of actual culture in the United States.
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