Iowa principal to resign after controversial performance by Minnesota Christian rock band

[MineralMan]

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_20170925/iowa-principal-leaving-but-not-because-uproar

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

Mike Cooper, who oversees grades seven through 12 at the school in Dunkerton, will tender his resignation Monday, March 19, and remain on the job through the end of the school year, Dunkerton Superintendent Jim Stanton told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in a story published Tuesday.

Cooper declined to comment to the newspaper 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.

Yeah, right. It's not because of the blantant violation of the First Amendment that he's resigning. Nope. He just wants to "spend more time with his family." Yeah...that's the ticket.

Anyhow, this is good news. Public schools cannot proselytize their students. The article's an interesting read, if you want to click the link.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. You can't tell me that this principal didn't know exactly

what this group was all about when he recommended inviting them to "perform" (if that's what you call it). And if he didn't know, which I don't believe for a minute, then he's just stupid, because a brief visit with Mr. Google would have told him everything he needed to know about them. I wonder if anybody at this school checked them out? How on earth could a school administration knowingly invite a "band" that the SPLC has classified as a hate group to perform for their students?

...Unless the band's message is precisely the message they wanted the students to hear.

Somebody higher up on the food chain made sure this idiot is resigning because they know the school district is likely facing a lawsuit. As it should be.

[MineralMan]

2. Of course he knew.

He just thought he could get away with it. Wrong!

[Initech]

3. If there's one upside to this...

It's that now everyone knows who Junkyard Prophet is and the message of hate they spew, and they'll most likely never play at a public school ever again.

WTF was that principal thinking? If I was there I'd gladly participate in that lawsuit.

[mnmoderatedem]

4. I'm originally from Iowa and live in Minnesota

I'm doubly embarrassed....