SUBSCRIPT: Detroit school board member 'fondles self' during meeting, then apologizes for 'bad behavior'
Ya cannot make this stuff up! The headline should read "Don't touch it!" or maybe, like the nuns used to say, "GET THOSE HANDS OUT OF THOSE POCKETS, YOUNG MAN!" But, please, let's let the Detroit Free Press (June 18, 2010) tell the story according to its usual journalistic standards:
"At least one Detroit Public Schools board member said today he has no problem with board president Otis Mathis remaining on the board amid allegations that he fondled himself in a meeting with the superintendent," the Detroit Free Press reported exclusively on June 18, 2010. "Reverend David Murray said Mathis took responsibility for his bad behavior toward DPS Superintendent Teresa Gueyser."
It gets better:
"He's a young man; maybe he didn't know it was offensive to her," Murray said of the 55-year-old Mathis. "It's not something I would do. He's a young man. That's just the way it is."
http://www.freep.com/article/201006181225/NEWS01/100618036
Substance is trying to get a comment from the superintendent, but has so far been unable to do so.
By: Bob
the Count
The Count
The story about Detroit brings back memories of The Count. We called this Native Son of some Balkan
nation that because of his accent. He didn’t have a car and was too cheap to take the bus
so he rode his bicycle from near Midway to Vincennes ave every day. At first the wine and cheese
set loved him. Then they found out he spent time in a concentration camp he was in. That is
until he came to a pot luck party with a ham .The party goers were all telling him how delicious
his ham was when he dropped the bomb. “You Americans are so spoiled”, he said that
ham could feed half my village in the old country “ and I took it out of the Jewel dumpster
by my house last night ”
Then he told them that he was in a communist concentration camp for being a Nazi supporter.
Suddenly the count was poison. He also was a rather unique math teacher who refused to teach
Any kid he felt was too stupid, his words, to learn math. The antics that occurred in his classroom were legendary. He would have 50 cutters in the room and never even take roll.
His downfall started when a women teacher found him pounding –off in the math office
Not once, but twice. The principal filed the papers while the Haitian math teacher, who was
A lawyer in his native land offered to defend the count on the basis that what he did was a greeting
where the count came from.
On his last day the count asked me to write a letter to the principal because all the math teachers
At one Chicago City College dumb. Detroit is just not that far away.