Yes, Being Unprofessional Can Cost You Millions, Exhibit A

What you are about to hear and see is Workplace Training Rule No. 1: Always stay professional! Failure to comply leads to epic fails and you not getting a job unless you end up becoming in the business for yourself.

Let add this up. That is $50,000 in mental anguish and $1.5 million in punitive damages for a $200 dollars bill which leave them losing about $1,549,800 dollars. Well sucks to be the caller and the collection agency who did that. They have just literally gave this man a cool 1.25 million, due to the lawyer fee.

Do you think that is fair?

Vulgar voicemails force debt collector to pay $1.5 million

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day to all the Armed Forces Veterans who lived and died for us. The Ace really appreciate it.

The Suite Life of a Teacher of The Year (AKA How Keenon Got Her Groove Back ... and Shafted Too)

(These teachers today are really something serious (and not in a good way). Just last week I gave a feel good post about a teacher retiring after 63 years and now I have to talk about another teacher of the year in a bad light. When will teachers learn that they are the one who mold the generation next to us.)

Now during my time in school, I have had crushes on my teachers (….well just one, the rest of the teachers were seriously not my type. I mean they were old, married, or just plain ugly.) , but I will never would have encountered having a lil fling with my teacher. The two reason is that although I was a teenager, I would have thought that is low and she is thirsty where no man have gave it to her (Note: I started dating older women after high school, not during.) and being a honor roll student in high school 12 out of 13 times with a 3.56 GPA, I would never jeopardize my future of going to a nice college like that. I do thank God that our class never had to encounter that due to the fact that we were country folks and we, as children and adults, have morals. These teachers today are possibly a little older or younger than me. So when I heard this in the news, old or not, I just had to evaluate this the best way I can.

Shiloh High School’s Teacher of the Year resigned last month after she admitted she had been involved in a sexual relationship with a student, Gwinnett County Public Schools officials said Thursday.

Language arts teacher Keenon Aampay Hall, who began working at Shiloh in 2005, submitted her resignation letter April 20, a day after Gwinnett County Public Schools launched an internal investigation into a student’s claim that Hall lowered his grade after he refused to impregnate her, according to documents provided Thursday to the Post. Hall’s letter said she resigned for medical reasons, school district spokesman Jorge Quintana said.

The 18-year-old student said the relationship began in October, when he was 17, and lasted until the day before spring break, the documents show. Hall, however, wrote that the “consenual (sic) relationship” took place from February to March.

In his statement, the student wrote the relationship began in October when he stayed after school to receive extra help from Hall.

“On that day she began touching me on my leg, and then asked me when I was gonna let her molest me,” the student wrote. “I said never and we begun to laugh, then she asked me agin (sic) this time handing me a phone number and asked me to call her.”
The following week, the student wrote, Hall paid for a cab to bring him to a hotel, where they had sex.

…..Okay she lives in Atlanta, you are telling me out of all those guys out there……..

…..Well never mind. Note to guys that live in Atlanta and are single; she really told off on you guys to stoop to a teenager, yet alone a student in her class.

Stories like this one is the reason when my uncle asked me “How come you never moved to Atlanta when some of your hometown people move there;” I just shrug and say “Just did not want to move there.” I wouldn’t know who is worse off the teacher or the student. I have to look at it through both crystal balls.

She will always have that on her record and that is like a serious cloud in the sky. She won’t be going to teach at a prestigious school anytime soon. (Everybody knows once you did something wrong in the school system and it is on the national news, that’s a wrap.)

He could end up being a bum after high school, because for black males, high school and college are so different it doesn’t make sense. That will make her look like she has a lack of taste in men.

She is already looking thirsty so guys are going to pursue her very different.

I hope she can find another teaching job because she seems like she has a promising calling, but stuff like this don’t go away easy.

Who do you think is at fault on this? What are your views on teacher/student relationships whether male or female?

Gwinnett teacher quits after affair with student

Weekend Jam - Hip Hop Love Songs

Today’s Weekend Jam goes to how hip-hop at one time influences the connection between a man and woman. I know hip-hop caught a bad rap of degrading the ladies by sexual exploitation, but the minority of hip-hop songs brought out the softer side of men who wanted to be with ladies. I now present to you: The Slow Jam Rap Songs:

“I Need Love” LL Cool J: I said it once and I will say it again, this is why they called him LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James).

“Hey Lover” LL Cool J feat. Boyz 2 Men: See “I Need Love” and classic sample of “The Lady in My Life” by Michael Jackson.

“Can You Get Away” Tupac: The legend of this song was that he was really writing a personal letter to Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. Whatever the reason, great song off one the greatest album in my lifetime “Me Against The World”

“Brainstorming” MC Brains: Although the name and the song are just as cheesy and corny, it still was a jam to be with your girl and make a lil love.

“Callin Me” Mac: This No Limit alum switched it up from gangster to smooth talker, and the beat is still to this day a bonafide classic.

“How It’s Going Down” DMX: The ultimate crush and how I feel about you song. Classic material from the Dog.

All Through the Night: Tone Loc feat. El Debarge: Tone have a smooth voice, but still I am LOLing at how did the West Coast feel this. You have to remember this was at the same time shortly "The Chronic" came out. You know the rest.

What is your favorite rap slow jam?

Alicia Keys and Gabby Union: Why They Can Get Away With It and You Can't.

Seems like Homewrecking is what hot around the streets. Months ago, we were talking about the D-Wade, Gabirelle Union, and Siohvaughn Wade and just yesterday, the net was buzzing about the pregnancy and engagement and of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats. But the rumor mill was out months prior that Alicia Keys was dating him while he was married to F-List R&B recording artist Mashonda Dean and had two sons. He ended up divorcing Ms. Dean and is paying child support.

I have to admit. Swiss is taking the road less travel is cool and for real, Swiss went from a Lexus to a Bentley when he got with Alicia Keys. Although Swiss got the girl like Nick Cannon, he still has to be ridiculed for cheating (You know...because he was married at that time).

…..but this is not about ole Swiss, he know what he did.

This is really talking to all the jumpoffs and homewreckers that think this is a success story of “I’ll take your man,” and tries to grow some vagina lips to snag a guy that you have been wanting for years. I will give you five good reasons why this can be an epic fail for you.

1 1 . She is Alicia Keys, and she is Grabrielle Union and YOU ARE NOT: They are stars in the limelight and can snag any guy they want to.

2. When they get away with it. Tabloids are buzzing about them (which they don’t care), when you do it, chances are the news will be buzzing, but it will either be in the streets, the 10 o’clock news, or Cheaters. Like this:

3. You think those guy are going to replace them? Well they could (See Howard Hughes), but just remember, you are just are replaceable as the woman you took him from.

4. What so different: Ginuwine can talk to you on that.

5. Brenda Harvey syndrome: You never know what a woman that has been married for years is going to do.

…To add to that extra note. You want to know why black relationships are at an all-time low. Sometimes people will have to check who is doing the homewrecking.

What are your thoughts on celebrity homewreckers? Do you think men cheating , women taking married men, or both is really hurting the black family?

Swiss and Alicia confirm pregnancy and engagement.

63 Years: The Loyalty of a Teacher

Now anybody knows me on my blog post I rarely post about my hometown because unless it is Vicksburg, Jack-town, Natchez, or any other town that I travel to everyday, there is nothing to post. Well actually Sunday I had something to hit up about my hometown, but the only reason I post it today because of my busy schedule. The thing is it is not about no Negro-Nonsense because we have that almost everyday. I am going to talk about a woman that I know.

….Well I knew she was old, but wow the accomplishment she achieved is beyond “the average educator.”

When Emma Brandon began teaching she earned $36 a month, walked three miles one way to school - seven miles if overnight rain made the creek too swollen to cross - and toted her own lunch of biscuits and syrup.

A lot has changed in the 63 years since. There are computers and standardized tests. Schools have been consolidated and integrated. Principals have come and gone.

Last week, Brandon decided to step out of the classroom for good, becoming one of the hundreds of Mississippi school teachers to retire this summer.

Roughly 800 to 1,000 teachers have retired each year for the last decade, the state Public Employees Retirement System reports.

The average tenure for those teachers is 24 years, said Pete Smith, spokesman for the state Department of Education.

Brandon went into teaching fresh out of high school in 1946. It was her escape from the farming life destined for so many others in her rural community.

Now I have been knowing Mrs. Brandon since I was born, and I am not going to tell you how old I am but let say this, she has more years than how old I am. Mrs. Brandon was always so nice to our class. She was a class act from generation to generation. Come to think about it, let’s recap the things that was going on in 1947

I mean seriously, black people had No chance in h-e-double hockey sticks that an full-fledge African American would be in the White House.

There was no tennis stars in the WTA.

Brown vs The Board of Education was not even mentioned.

Civil Rights was a scary word.

World War II was 2 years done.

Truman was the Prez.

IBM was a younging.

And the Klan was running (see Dixiecrat).

The average teacher tenure is close to 30 years, but Mrs. Brandon has taught men and women, their sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, sons, grandsons, daughters, grand-daughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters, and even a great-great grandson for 63 years.

So to Mrs. Brandon, I tip my hat to you.

Do you think the old-school teachers are the most under-appreciated? How many people have know anyone who have taught for over half a century?

Mrs. Brandon retires after 63 years.

Fight for the Right

By: Mike Moates
WASHINGTON- According to a recent press release from the Fight for the Right to Write group, created by Puyallup School District student newsmagazine editors cite a censorship case as proof that the school district needs to embrace a publications policy without prior review.
The story involved was one covering a recent lawsuit about another story one district school had printed in a previous issue.
Allie Rickard, author of the story, decided not to print her work after Mike Patterson, the attorney representing the school district, demanded she change portions of the story.
Emerald Ridge High School newspaper, the JagWire, printed a blank page with a box stating, “This story has been censored,” as a protest to the prior review policy it is under.
District Superintendent Tony Apostle made it clear that the school board does not plan to change its publications policy on prior review. However, if the student’s parents were to accept the legal and financial responsibilities the board would agree to work with Fight for the Right to Write.
Student Press Law Center attorney, Mike Hiestand, has been working with the group, guiding them through the legal hoops of creating a publications policy without prior review.
"I think [the school district] understood pretty clearly what the students' objections were and why they would be upset about not being able to report on very public information from a public trial," he said.
An editor of the JagWire, Amanda Wyma, feels that the policy of prior review that the district newsmagazines are currently under discourage students from covering complex and potentially controversial topics.
Wyma is senior and will be graduating soon. Once her and her fellow seniors leave Wyma is uncertain as to how the rest of the staff will handle the policies of the paper.
This kind of policy is an infringement on the student’s rights. If the district were to maintain this policy it could have drastic effects on the student’s freedom of