Principal of Iowa school where Christian band spread anti-gay, anti-abortion message resigns

[William769]

DUNKERTON, Iowa — The principal of an Iowa secondary school that allowed members of a Christian rock band to espouse their anti-gay, anti-abortion views while showing students images of fetuses that had apparently been aborted is resigning, the district superintendent said.

Mike Cooper, who oversees grades 7-12 at the school in Dunkerton, will tender his resignation Monday and remain on the job through the end of the school year, Dunkerton Superintendent Jim Stanton told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier for a story published Tuesday.

Cooper declined to comment to the newspaper Tuesday about his pending departure, and he did not immediately respond Wednesday to a phone message left at his office by The Associated Press.

Stanton said Cooper’s decision is not related to Cooper’s recommendation that the district invite the band Junkyard Prophet to perform at last week’s assembly, and said the plan had been “in the works” for nearly a month.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/principal-of-iowa-school-where-christian-band-spread-anti-gay-anti-abortion-message-resigns/2012/03/14/gIQAlf0QCS_story.html

[longship]

1. Bullshit!

decision is not related to Cooper’s recommendation that the district invite the band Junkyard Prophet to perform at last week’s assembly

Blatant lie, if you ask me.

[pangaia]

2. Right.. Uh Huh...

[tsuki]

12. I wonder what they do to students that lie like that? nt

[obamanut2012]

3. I read yesterday on Yahoo he was becoming a superintendent

Isn't that a PROMOTION?!

[William769]

4. I didn't see that.

Think you could find it?

[obamanut2012]

6. Let me look

There is always a possibility I misread it.

[obamanut2012]

8. Here it is

http://globegazette.com/news/iowa/dunkerton-principal-leaving-but-not-because-of-uproar/article_3d807044-6dce-11e1-ba76-0019bb2963f4.html


"Superintendent Jim Stanton told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (http://bit.ly/yHvgGA ) that Mike Cooper has been planning his resignation for a long time. He says Cooper "simply wants to be a superintendent."

[William769]

9. Thanks.

Wants to be? I wonder what his chances are now?

[obamanut2012]

10. It made me think something was in the pipes already

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I may have inferred too much, but it just seemed odd.

[William769]

11. Where I live our school superintendent has to be voted in by the board of education.

This will be interesting to say the least. I hope it's in the news when and if it happens.

[RZM]

5. We actually had a guy kind of like this who came and sang at my high school

The Christian students picked him and lobbied to have him brought there. Except he knew the game and left out all the religious stuff. He brought mostly an anti-drug, anti-alcohol, and anti-smoking message.

[William769]

7. All we ever got in high school was "Up With People"

They were actually good singers. I guess we were lucky.