Given the, um, spirited discussions I've seen this week in my comments sections, most of which were about teachers' unions, I just can't resist reprinting this Best of the Web posting in full:
In Vermont (Gore by 9.93%), it was a scene worthy of "Monty Python's the Meaning of Life": Wayne Nadeau, head of the social studies department at Lamoille Union High School in Hyde Park, "admitted that during the 2001-02 school year he had consensual sex with a female paraprofessional in his classroom," reports the Rutland Herald. As a result, his teaching license was suspended for 20 school days "and the suspension was reported to national authorities."
Now, the Herald reports, Nadeau has been elected to the executive board of the National Education Association. Suddenly the whole thing makes sense. He wanted to be part of a "teachers union" and was just confused about the meaning of the term.
Wayne Nadeau: Giving teachers a whole new way to pay their dues.
Heh.