Shots Across The Bow

It's the Principle of the matter!

It's the Principle of the matter! Not the principal. I found this story via FoxNews PC Patrol, but the link they give doesn't work, so I did a quick search, and found this link. You'll have to scroll about half way down to find this little gem:

Sahuaro High Principal Steve Wilson is a big-time college basketball referee who should be benched for his crummy management of the eastside school he was hired to put right. Wilson went way out of bounds last week, crying to the Tucson Unified School District board to fire Sahuaro math teacher Steven Bloodsworth, who sought a restraining order against a freshman given to violent outbursts.

Not just any freshman. But a 6'3" kid who is the next Sahuaro "franchise" basketball player. After threats and intimidation, Bloodsworth bounced the kid, who returned to his room to issue a threat and smash a glass in a door.

Wilson and Delano Price, who has settled into yet another assistant principal's position, claimed Bloodsworth's actions were uncalled for and constituted intolerable insubordination.

Bloodsworth called Wilson's bluff and demanded an open hearing before the TUSD board. But Wilson went wild, saying Bloodsworth and an unnamed parent were perpetrating an "extremely bigoted, zealous, racist attack on a young man."

"The way these two people are acting, I think, is almost like Mississippi in '54 only without the rope," Wilson said.

Equating a restraining order with a lynching....and he calls himself a principal?