Melissa Cairns.
(Credit: ABC News Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
The third most difficult part with humor is when you have to explain it.
The second most difficult is when someone actually gets offended.
The most difficult part is when a joke might cost you your career because you posted it on Facebook.
That is the prospect facing 33-year-old Melissa Cairns, a teacher in an Ohio middle school. Cairns' heinousness stems from an episode in her classroom at the Buchtel Community Learning Center.
"I made a bad mistake of thinking it was funny," she told ABC affiliate WEWS-TV.
What did she do? Well, a student had a problem with her binder (no, it wasn't full of women) and Cairns gave her some duct tape to fix it.
Instead, the student put the duct tape over her mouth. Kids being kids, several more decided to copy this amusement.
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.
The kids allegedly asked Cairns to take a picture. Kids understand pictures better than words.
This being the modern world, Cairns didn't merely take the picture, she posted it onto her private Facebook page.
She captioned it: "Finally found a way to get them to be quiet!!!"
But we know that private Facebook pages are only relatively... [Read more]
by Chris Matyszczyk via CNET
Posts
No comments: