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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 Coopers decision is not related to Coopers recommendation that the district invite the band Junkyard Prophet to perform at last weeks 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
(40,416 posts)decision is not related to Coopers recommendation that the district invite the band Junkyard Prophet to perform at last weeks assembly
Blatant lie, if you ask me.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)tsuki
(11,994 posts)obamanut2012
(26,158 posts)Isn't that a PROMOTION?!
William769
(55,148 posts)Think you could find it?
obamanut2012
(26,158 posts)There is always a possibility I misread it.
obamanut2012
(26,158 posts)"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
(55,148 posts)Wants to be? I wonder what his chances are now?
obamanut2012
(26,158 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 15, 2012, 08:05 AM - Edit history (1)
I may have inferred too much, but it just seemed odd.
William769
(55,148 posts)This will be interesting to say the least. I hope it's in the news when and if it happens.
RZM
(8,556 posts)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
(55,148 posts)They were actually good singers. I guess we were lucky.