No, not the stuff about suspending the teacher for threatening to shoot students. That is a proper move.

No, I mean this little tidbit at the end of the article.

In February he was reprimanded for including a biblical account of creation in an assignment on myths.

Excuse me, but the creation stories found in Genesis meet all the criteria for being included in the literary category of “myth”. Why should there be any discipline meted out for making use of those stories to illustrate the concept?

Now I've heard on the radio that this guy is a pretty outspoken atheist, and that makes some students uncomfortable -- but really, his method is not all that outrageous. In fact, an old colleague from my days as an English teacher and I talked about this thing this afternoon and laughed -- because the two of us, both active Christians, have taught precisely the same sort of assignment with 11th graders.

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