Teacher Suspended, Incarcerated For Science Fiction Story

by **L Ron Cupboard** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:14 pm

About time they arrested George Lucas,

by **Yumyumsuppertime** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:14 pm

Empire of Narnia wrote:
Yumyumsuppertime wrote:
So Stephen King should have been taken into custody as he was teaching in a school and writing Carrie?

Carrie was written before Columbine, but I think if it was written today they should have done some sort of investigation, even though the fantasy element in that story is much greater than the one in the OP.

The novel by the author in this story takes place 900 years in the future. Unless you've read the book , you have no idea how realistic or unrealistic it is.

by **The Serbian Empire** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:15 pm

The Sotoan Union wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:I have to fear that freedom of speech no longer exists. The government's slowly becoming a police state.

Yes. An inevitable slippery slope from the events of one paranoid school district. Or you know. A gross exaggeration.

It probably won't be the last time we've heard of overly paranoid school districts... Columbine sort of did this.

by **Empire of Narnia** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:15 pm

L Ron Cupboard wrote:About time they arrested George Lucas,

What part of his films suggested it was something he would realistically carry out?

by **Napkiraly** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:17 pm

Empire of Narnia wrote:
L Ron Cupboard wrote:About time they arrested George Lucas,

What part of his films suggested it was something he would realistically carry out?

Overthrowing the government with laser katanas.

by **Nazi Flower Power** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:19 pm

I can see why they looked into it, but I think they overreacted.

by **The Serbian Empire** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:21 pm

Napkiraly wrote:
Empire of Narnia wrote:What part of his films suggested it was something he would realistically carry out?

Overthrowing the government with laser katanas.

That don't even exist yet.

by **Cetacea** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:24 pm

Yumyumsuppertime wrote:
Empire of Narnia wrote:I would be freaked out if I was his student. People often write stories about their dreams and fantasies. Maybe he hated his students and it was some kind of self-insert wish fulfillment story for him. Even if it wasn't it was in very bad taste.

I remember hearing about a teacher who was so disturbed by the bullying that went on in his school that he used it as inspiration for his first novel, a story about a young woman who is so horribly scarred by her dysfunctional home and school life that when she's the victim of a cruel prank at a school function, her response is to kill off a good part of the student body. Alarming, right?

The book was Carrie. The author was Stephen King. As far as I know, none of his students died at his hands.

Strangely enough my first thought was wow Stephen King should be on death row.

This is stoopid, especially coming so soon after the report about the kid arrested for a similar story. Good that the United Police States is again exposed...

by **Lleu llaw Gyffes** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:27 pm

Yumyumsuppertime wrote:
Empire of Narnia wrote:Carrie was written before Columbine, but I think if it was written today they should have done some sort of investigation, even though the fantasy element in that story is much greater than the one in the OP.

The novel by the author in this story takes place 900 years in the future. Unless you've read the book , you have no idea how realistic or unrealistic it is.

That is the danger. If we ban children from reading about killing people with guns, they will read about killing people with magic powers. And when we ban stories about magic, kids will read about Jedi powers because Jedis aren't magic because? because?

Empire of Narnia wrote:
L Ron Cupboard wrote:
About time they arrested George Lucas,

What part of his films suggested it was something he would realistically carry out?

Overthrowing the government with laser katanas.

Making the Prequels proves that Lucas is an evil tyrant, so he WON'T overthrow tyranny.

by **Napkiraly** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:31 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:
Napkiraly wrote:Overthrowing the government with laser katanas.

That don't even exist yet.

That's what the Illuminati want you to think.

by **Margno** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:32 pm

Ugh. The same thing happens to students, and it's insane. My best friend wrote a story in high school in which one of the characters committed suicide: and they suspended her.

by **Lavan Tiri** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:32 pm

Napkiraly wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:That don't even exist yet.

That's what the Illuminati want you to think.

*gunshot*

We don't talk about the organization in public.

by **Pandeeria** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:33 pm

Margno wrote:Ugh. The same thing happens to students, and it's insane. My best friend wrote a story in high school in which one of the characters committed suicide: and they suspended her.

What was the reasoning for the suspension? Do they think a suspension would prevent a possible suicide?

by **Muckistania** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:36 pm

This could be good for this author in the long run. Plenty of publicity. You know what they say about there being no such thing as bad publicity.

by **Margno** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:37 pm

Pandeeria wrote:
Margno wrote:Ugh. The same thing happens to students, and it's insane. My best friend wrote a story in high school in which one of the characters committed suicide: and they suspended her.

What was the reasoning for the suspension? Do they think a suspension would prevent a possible suicide?

They considered her a bad influence on other students. Like she was going to convince other people to commit suicide. Because that's totally how that works.
Besides which, it was a work of fiction. That's a hell of an assumption to make. As if nobody could have any other reason to mention suicide in a piece of writing.

by **Napkiraly** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:39 pm

Margno wrote:
Pandeeria wrote:
What was the reasoning for the suspension? Do they think a suspension would prevent a possible suicide?

They considered her a bad influence on other students.

As the wise poet Lil Jon once said "Hhhwaaat?"

by **Pandeeria** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:40 pm

Margno wrote:
Pandeeria wrote:
What was the reasoning for the suspension? Do they think a suspension would prevent a possible suicide?

They considered her a bad influence on other students.

Well that's really silly.

Muckistania wrote:You know what they say about there being no such thing as bad publicity.

See: Hitler.

by **The Lone Alliance** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:42 pm

Welcome to the culture of fear. Thank you so much mass media.

I've seen so many people here on this very board who seem to revel in living in fear, so no surprise that people would react in hysteria over this.

That doesn't make it right, just expected.

by **Geilinor** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:44 pm

Empire of Narnia wrote:
L Ron Cupboard wrote:About time they arrested George Lucas,

What part of his films suggested it was something he would realistically carry out?

Science fiction can't be realistically carried out with current technology. That's kind of the point.

by **Cannot think of a name** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:44 pm

Napkiraly wrote:GRRM secretly wants to raise people from the dead and commit incest I guess.

It might be a fair bet he hates weddings.

I feel like something might be missing from this story...back in a mo'.

by **Imperializt Russia** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:45 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:I have to fear that freedom of speech no longer exists. The government's slowly becoming a police state.

This isn't police stateism.
This is the frankly pathetic extreme of overreacting to school shootings.

Violent fiction is completely intolerable in US schools now.
A square of paper with a quarter corner cut out of it can land a child in serious trouble for imitating a firearm.

by **Empire of Narnia** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:51 pm

Margno wrote:Ugh. The same thing happens to students, and it's insane. My best friend wrote a story in high school in which one of the characters committed suicide: and they suspended her.

Ya gotta be careful what you right. School stories should be happy stories. If you write anything remotely violent it should be something clearly fantasy, like with wizards and knights. Even then the violence level should be kept at a Disney movie level.

by **Imperializt Russia** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:53 pm

Empire of Narnia wrote:
Margno wrote:Ugh. The same thing happens to students, and it's insane. My best friend wrote a story in high school in which one of the characters committed suicide: and they suspended her.

Ya gotta be careful what you right. School stories should be happy stories. If you write anything remotely violent it should be something clearly fantasy, like with wizards and knights. Even then the violence level should be kept at a Disney movie level.

I'd probably have been shot by police as a precaution if I'd written the stories I wrote at school today in the states.

by **Elwher** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:55 pm

Benuty wrote:
United Marxist Nations wrote:My history teacher last year showed us Cold War "duck and cover" PSA's. Oh my god.

To be fair the duck, and cover was probably meant more so to protect from looking at the sheer blinding light if the atomic bomb was dropped far enough way.

True enough, but even more for protection against broken glass from the windows being blown in.

by **Entmonton** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:58 pm

This just adds proof to my belief that common sense has become a super power in today's world, especially among "officials". What bullshit.

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