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Which is worse?

The kid who seems to delight in calling everyone "fag," "faggot" or "Queer" for 20 minutes straight or the kid who yells at "fuck you!" Me too. What was surprising was the number of students who were shocked as to which one went to office.

In covering a class for another teacher, Mr. F-U wrote a 5 paragraph essay on why he was not participating in the class. The assignment for the class was to answer 6 questions out of the book... guess which one was more work? The essay was really entertaining though.

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Anonymous said…
I've noticed that "gay" is used as one of those adjectives that describes anything "dumb" or "stupid" like "This quiz is gay" or "School is gay" or "Your science project looks gay." I actually hear and get irritated the F-bombs; the bigoted remarks I've actually learned to ignore (I'm not sure if this is good or bad).

And yes, nobodyknows, I too have been called "gay" several times. So has almost every male teacher I know of ... ah, confused puberty. Glad I got away from that!
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