If you were a geometry teacher how would you go about teaching angles? Oh, by giving an example of calculating angles to kill the President? Well then then congratulations; you just found a new douchetastic™ best friend.

The Birmingham News
A Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example when he used as­sassinating President Bar ack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geome try students.

Someone alerted authorities and the Corner High School math teacher was questioned by the Secret Service, but was not taken into custody or charged with any crime.

“We did not find a credible threat,” said Roy Sex ton, special agent in charge of Birmingham’s Secret Service office. “As far as the Secret Service is concerned, we looked into it, we talked to the gentleman and we have closed our investigation.”

I didn’t believe this when I first heard about it on BIll Maher. I assumed Bill was being Crazy McLiberalCrazy-Guy. But no, IT’S REAL. The levels of ignorance that it takes to use this as a teaching tool is spectacular. Forget the whole “killing the PRESIDENT” part. Why would you use assassination as a teaching tool? If you wanted to use murder to enlighten the youth, why wouldn’t you defer to a Jack Bauer scenario? I’m sure crazy a-holes who use Presidential death plots for day to day teaching HAVE to watch 24, right?

One of the students in his class, while explaining why she believed everyone is overreacting, clarified the situation. It seems that ANOTHER student asked “What if you were going to shoot the President?” and Mr. geometry teacher guy (Gregory Harrison) just took the example and explained.I get the vibe that she thought this explanation would make it better.

Amazingly enough, no.

Why wouldn’t the teacher say “Um, first of all, you need to go to the guidance counselor immediately. Why in hell would you use that as an example? Do you have guns in your house? Black trench coat?”  There ‘s a list of things that get you red-flagged in school. I’d like to go on record that requesting angles for assassination–of ANYONE–might be on that list. Seriously Alabama, WTF?

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