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Teacher fired for promoting The Gay Agenda (1 Viewer)

Al O'Pecia

Al O'Pecia

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Salt Lake Tribune

When the social-media specialist for a private Provo-based English language learning center wrote a blog explaining homophones, he was let go for creating the perception that the school promoted a gay agenda.

Tim Torkildson says after he wrote the blog on the website of his employer, Nomen Global Language Center, his boss and Nomen owner Clarke Woodger, called him into his office and told him he was fired.

As Torkildson tells it, Woodger said he could not trust him and that the blog about homophones was the last straw.

"Now our school is going to be associated with homosexuality," Woodger complained, according to Torkildson, who posted the exchange on his Facebook page.

Torkildson says he was careful to write a straightforward explanation of homophones. He knew the "homo" part of the word could be politically charged, but he thought the explanation of that quirky part of the English language would be educational.

Nomen has removed that blog from its website, but a similar explanation of homophones was posted there in 2011 with apparently no controversy.

Woodger says his reaction to Torkildson’s blog has nothing to do with homosexuality but that Torkildson had caused him concern because he would "go off on tangents" in his blogs that would be confusing and sometimes could be considered offensive.

Nomen is Utah’s largest private English as a Second Language school and caters mostly to foreign students seeking admission to U.S. colleges and universities. Woodger says his school has taught 6,500 students from 58 countries during the past 15 years. Most of them, he says, are at basic levels of English and are not ready for the more complicated concepts such as homophones.

"People at this level of English," Woodger says, " … may see the ‘homo’ side and think it has something to do with gay sex."
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I'm guessing Woodger would also oppose mention of dangling participles. :shrug:

 
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“I’m letting you go because I can’t trust you,” Woodger allegedly said. “This blog about homophones was the last straw. Now our school is going to be associated with homosexuality.”Woodger also allegedly complained that he didn’t know what homophones — words that sound identical while having different meanings and spellings — were, and that it was the kind of “advanced stuff” Nomen did not teach its students. He also accused Torkildson of not being reliable enough to continue working for the school.

“I never have any idea what you’re going to do next. I can’t run my business that way,” Woodger said, according to Torkildson. “You’d probably make a great college professor, but since you don’t have a degree you’ll never get that kind of work. I would advise you to try something clerical, where you’ll be closely supervised and have immediate goals at all times. That’s the only kind of job you’ll ever succeed at.”
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What a terrible teacher going out and making a website that might help people understand part of the English language. I can see how a teacher like that is too unpredictable. Teachers, just tell the kids to read a chapter, give them a dozen worksheets to keep them busy and then a multiple choice test. There's no need for all this new fangled technology stuff like internet and overhead projectors.

 
This is worse than the teacher (a longtime vet just months from retirement) showed an old "blackface" routine as part of a social studies unit on the history of racism and was fired (he got his job back) because an administrator thought the video was racist.

 
Misleading thread title. Should say "Social media specialist at language learning center (for kids who can't read good?) fired because his boss doesn't like words that sound the same".

 
The Gay Agenda

1. Haircut

2. Buy those boots that are on sale

3. Manicure

4. #### Steve up the ###

5. Update blog

 
Yes a school with someone this stupid in charge is just where I want to send my children to learn well anything.

 
NCCommish said:
Yes a school with someone this stupid in charge is just where I want to send my children to learn well anything.
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Well dude, its a private school so that choice is entirely up to you, just know there are plenty of people that would love to send their kids to a school that didn't brainwash them into thinking homosexuality is fab.

 
Gordang said:
NCCommish said:
Yes a school with someone this stupid in charge is just where I want to send my children to learn well anything.
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Well dude, its a private school so that choice is entirely up to you, just know there are plenty of people that would love to send their kids to a school that didn't brainwash them into thinking homosexuality is fab.
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how many aliases is Peens allowed to have?

 
joffer said:
“I’m letting you go because I can’t trust you,” Woodger allegedly said. “This blog about homophones was the last straw. Now our school is going to be associated with homosexuality.”
Woodger also allegedly complained that he didn’t know what homophones — words that sound identical while having different meanings and spellings — were, and that it was the kind of “advanced stuff” Nomen did not teach its students.
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What the kids in that school know about homophones.

 
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