You’re History: Domonique Brown taught U.S. History at Taylor (Mich.) Preparatory High School. She had seven years of experience and won teacher of the month. She was also a graduate student and a rapper. That last part, she said, attracted repeated complaints from an anonymous parent, to which the school responded with a series of meetings that spanned five months. “I was like ... can we tell that parent to come in and see professionalism, see me in a classroom, see me after school, see me at all the games, see me dropping kids off every day, buying food?” the teacher said. “Can they come see me in my element before they try to say I’m unprofessional in it?” Eventually, Brown was fired. Once that happened, she brought some of her now-former students into her rapping for a video that’s gotten tens of thousands of views. “Music is part of the culture,” Brown said. “We’re from Motown, this is what we do.” The school said that it was limited in how it could respond, but that it would “continue fostering a distraction-free teaching and learning environment.” (WJBK Detroit) ...Which is more distracting: what a teacher does off campus, or firing her for it?


The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be there, and they should not interfere with God’s divine will.
At the Baptist church, the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistry. The deacons met and decided to put a water-slide on the baptistry and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim, so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week.
The Lutheran church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist church. Two weeks later, the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water-slide.
The Episcopalians tried a much more unique path by setting out pans of whiskey around their church in an effort to kill the squirrels with alcohol poisoning. They sadly learned how much damage a band of drunk squirrels can do.
But the Catholic church came up with a more creative strategy! They baptized all the squirrels and made them members of the church. Now they only see them at Christmas and Easter.
Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue. They took the first squirrel and circumcised him. They haven’t seen a squirrel since.