[haloboy100]

Kickass rig...a bathroom bigger then my house...

Are you rich or something???

[Ghostavo]

No, he just pees in the woods...

[haloboy100]

nice

[Excalibur]

See this writing on the white board? Now you see it, now you don't. It disappeared. Oops, now my job has disappeared as well.

No wonder there's a teacher shortage...

[haloboy100]

"Well well well...look kids, a girl answered a math question. You know what that means..."

"she's a witch!!!"

[WMCoolmon]

156². Wow. You have a small apartment.

Damn Flatties.

[colecampbell666]

Kickass rig...a bathroom bigger then my house...

Are you rich or something???

No, in Alaska they friggin give you money. And in NS you could get the same house for ¹/₅ the price. My friend moved to Toronto, his family had a five bathroom etc mansion, and they got a 2 bedroom apartment.

No, he just pees in the woods...

No, he just lives in Alaska. And that isn't a large room, 12.5*12.5ft IIRC. My bathroom is like 14*5 IIRC, and there are two of them. Just large enough to hold a tub, toilet, and counter, plus a laundry basket.

EDIT: Wait, we're comparing Lobo's house to bathrooms.

[Ford Prefect]

Clearly these townsfolk fear that he will bring ill tidings from the eastern lands, as if this will prevent the orcish hordes from descending upon their homes.

[colecampbell666]

  wat. Oh, you're actually on-topic. Pfaw. n00b.

[Kosh]

There has to be personal tension somewhere... This just doesn't make sense.  What exactly was he teaching?  Why was a magic trick relevant? Was the magic trick to make a point that rubbed someone the wrong way?  Was that person's parents paying a-lot of money/pull?

Many questions come into mind seeing how sad this whole thing appears.

How could there be personal tension? He was a substitute......

Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.
But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.

"I get a call the middle of the day from the supervisor of substitute teachers.  He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue.  You can't take any more assignments.  You need to come in right away,'" he said.

When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell that went much farther than he'd hoped.

"I said, 'Well Pat, can you explain this to me?'  'You've been accused of wizardry,' [he said]. Wizardry?" he asked.

[zonination]

Read the rest of the article.

He was also getting formal complaints for allowing students access on restricted computers, as well as not following lesson plans.

I suspect wizardry was just one of the crazy on-the-side accusations.

[haloboy100]

So they think it's an excuse to accuse him of wizardry because he did other stuff as well?

[Polpolion]

Wizardry, in this situation, is just a fancy way of saying pointlessly wasting class time. Of which it seems the teacher made a habit, according to Zonination.

[jdjtcagle]

There has to be personal tension somewhere... This just doesn't make sense.  What exactly was he teaching?  Why was a magic trick relevant? Was the magic trick to make a point that rubbed someone the wrong way?  Was that person's parents paying a-lot of money/pull?

Many questions come into mind seeing how sad this whole thing appears.

How could there be personal tension? He was a substitute......

Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.
But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.

"I get a call the middle of the day from the supervisor of substitute teachers.  He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue.  You can't take any more assignments.  You need to come in right away,'" he said.

When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell that went much farther than he'd hoped.

"I said, 'Well Pat, can you explain this to me?'  'You've been accused of wizardry,' [he said]. Wizardry?" he asked.

Like I said, it doesn't make sense... I'm thinking more along the lines of thesizzler on this one.

[Ford Prefect]

Wizardry, in this situation, is just a fancy way of saying pointlessly wasting class time.

Yes, let's be honest-- who among us hasn't fallen victim to the woeful ambiguity of this temptingly descriptive terminology? Many were the times in high school that I heard accusations of wizardry and, in a panic, hurriedly prepared my torch, pitchfork, and magical runes of protection, only to discover that a student had been wasting time on the internets while under the supervision of a substitute. I was initially indignant over such a potentially dangerous misunderstanding, but upon reflection, I couldn't help but chuckle to myself at the perfect structure of this dying metaphor.

[haloboy100]

I'm laughing too

[CP5670]

Wizardry, in this situation, is just a fancy way of saying pointlessly wasting class time. Of which it seems the teacher made a habit, according to Zonination.

I used to have a recurring sub teacher for several years through elementary and middle school who was like this. He was an old man who used to bring a boom box to class and have everyone dance to the music, and did various other strange things. Everyone loved it when he showed up since we knew there would be no work that day.

[haloboy100]

Same with an African sub that always comes to my school now and then and tells hilarious stories about his life in south Africa

He accused this guy in our class of smelling like green Mexican (whatever that is. I think it's a cigarrette).

[Kosh]

Read the rest of the article.

He was also getting formal complaints for allowing students access on restricted computers, as well as not following lesson plans.

I suspect wizardry was just one of the crazy on-the-side accusations.

Then why not just charge him with that stuff and be done with it? Why is their main charge "wizardry"?

Wizardry, in this situation, is just a fancy way of saying pointlessly wasting class time.

So a 30 second magic trick got him into trouble but wasting time using other methods did not?

[Mars]

Since when did substitute teachers stick to lesson plans?