I am sure this has been national news.  Who knew boring Gwinnett County could make such a stink.  After all, we’re most famous for the Runaway Bride and being known as the place where Larry Flynt (happy Jan) was shot.

But, headlines galore, a math teacher at Beaver Ruin Elementary School, which is across the street from ‘that place where I work’, has been front page news for several days here.

Doing what the school board has encouraged them to do, a teacher gave a math test which combined a social studies lesson with math.

The result was a brouhaha that enraged parents, prompted protests, calls to the Principal, school board, and picketing.

Really getting to work was a bee-atch, and well, in the end, it’s all about me.

After teaching the kids about slavery – which, I might add was a reality – and following direction of integrating (no pun intended) courses, a teacher created a math test with questions such as those pictured below.

Parents were outraged.

Furious, UP in arms, on the phone, in the faces of everyone who would listen.

The social studies lesson was about Frederick Douglas, a former slave, who was beaten, and if not cotton, I’m sure picked something.

Slavery was and remains a horrid thing.  It should be taught as a lesson of what not to do, and the teachers (there were four who used the test) were doing their job by combining lessons as directed, and reinforcing both math and social studies.

Now, one of them as resigned.  Luis Rivera, left his/her (I’m not sure as to the gender of the teacher) job on January 18 amid a personnel investigation.

I would venture to guess, and this is merely an educated guess, that Rivera had a choice, resign or get fired and lose his/her teaching credentials.  It’s happened before.  Teachers rarely get fired, they chose to resign.

The other three are still under investigation, and we…shall see.

The school board is using the old saw that the test “failed to undergo a content review”,  I say, caca del toro.  Tests are made UP every day and very few of them are reviewed.

Frankly, I have in the past made UP test on the fly, asking the questions as I went.  There was no review.

In an elementary school where 88% of the students are either Black or Hispanic – which leads us to the conclusion that fewer than 12% are Caucasian, allowing for Asians, of which in that area there are many, it isn’t the usual Black/White discrimination story.

More than 50% of the faculty and staff at the school is ‘non-White’ as well.

This isn’t a race thing.

It is just an ill-advised plan being implemented in an ill-thought out way, by dedicated teachers who were trying to balance all the balls and dance as fast as they can at the same time.  It was bad judgement, not maliciousness, as some parents would have us believe.  One angry couple, featured in the AJC, were scowling in the picture while their happy, smiling child showed them the paper.

I’ll admit, beating and picking cotton aren’t pretty things, and better examples could have been used, but they happened.

Get the hell over it!

Slavery existed, math haunts us today, and kids need to learn both.  So, if you want an integrated curriculum, plan it better or live with what you get.

This must be stopped!

Katy Perry’s parents have decided that Tim Tebow is just the guy for their pop star daughter!

Oh, HELL no!

The not even rid of Russell Brand completely yet singer who kissed a girl and liked it is the object of an arranged meeting between the Denver Bronco QB and herself by her less than realistic mom and dad.

Again, Oh, HELL no!

They are trying to set UP the meeting at their  - you guessed it – California Church!

According to a source at OK Ragazine, Katy as “mentioned on more than one occasion how much she likes Tim.”

She thinks he’s charming, intelligent, and good looking.

Who doesn’t?

And above all else, he’s a good Christian…er, I hate to point this out again, but she’s married to RUSSELL BRAND!

BTW, rumor has it that she’s leaving him because she doesn’t want her kids to go through an awkward stage like their dad did.

Yes, that’s our Little Russell years ago.

Or maybe she’s leaving him because she thinks her future might turn out like this…

But, I digress once again.

Keith and Mary Hudson are ministers of the ‘evangelical’ variety…which I might add, is a misunderstood term, and viewed as a larger umbrella than it really is.  The Bowster is a Baptist…which the last time I checked was both Christian and Evangelical…really Evangelical.

ABC News requested a comment from Tim, and were immediately blown off ignored.  Ms. Perry’s spawners were contacted, but didn’t comment.  They said something earlier in the week about the marital rift being a motivator for church attendance recently, but how the heck would they know?

This is just about the worst match since John and Yoko, Frank and Ava, Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky, Mike Tyson and ANYONE!

And besides all that, we all know Tim’s just waiting for the right moment to ask this girl out…

Seriously, Tim, get with the program!  Shoot me an email…I’ll set it UP!

Well, I wasn’t, but Sydney Spies is.

Sydney Spies, a Colorado Senior High School student is all UPset because those popular kids on the yearbook staff think her senior picture is too sexy for publication.

Yearbook pictures have changed since I graduated in 1970.

And, I wasn’t too sexy for anything…but, that’s a whole ‘nother Springer Show.

The Colorado Coed and her mother are all UP in arms about this, and are threatening legal action.

The popular kids on the yearbook staff are riled because their yearbooks have been award winners – I didn’t know there were awards for yearbooks – in the past, and they want to keep UP the tradition and not do anything to lower their standards.

Sydney, her mother, Miki (shocker) and a handful of high school students staged a protest because Sydney was “being denied her freedom of expression.”

The school officials say the outfit violates dress code, well – let’s hope so!

Here’s a tip, Sydney.  Your grandchildren are going to look at that yearbook and say, “Wow, Granny dressed like a ho!”

So, let it go.  Move on.  Hit the mall, and buy a top…a whole top!

…it’s never happened before.  But, I could have been mistaken about God not watching football.

Back in the day when Timmy was merely a Florida Gator and not a professional ball player, he put a Bible verse on his eye-black.

John 3:16 as a matter of fact.

The practice has since been banned by the NCAA, who are apparently Godless infidels worried that it might offend some of their contributors and cost them some cash someone out there.

As a Baptist Preacher’s kid, that was probably the first Bible verse I memorized.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

It is the cornerstone verse of the Baptist faith.

Well, Sunday night while Tim was quarterbacking his backside off for the Broncos, there were some interesting stats.

He had 316 passing yards.

The average yards per pass was 31.6.

The final quarter hour TV rating was, that’s right, 31.6.

So, as shocking as it seems, maybe God does like Football, and if so, He’s a Broncos fan!