"Shut Up" Rules Are In Effect
More and more, there are chills placed on speech in our society by those who are offended by someone else's message.

That's sounds like what happened here -- in a situation in New Mexico that led to a teacher resigning.

From KOAT's Alana Grimstead, a creative writing teacher left her job after student wrote about Jesus and pot rather than loaves and fishes and some other student went home with her panties in twist:

"I love teaching," said creative writing teacher Katrina Guarascio. "I'm not there to judge them. I'm there to encourage them."

Guarascio said her creative writing class is a safe place for students to find their voices.

The assignment was to take a fairy tale or legend and rewrite it in modern times. One student changed the biblical story about Jesus handing out bread and fish to the poor to Jesus handing out marijuana to the sick.

"I don't take any personal offense. It's not written for me. It's written for them. It's how they can express themselves," said Guarascio.

But according to the teacher, during peer review, one of the other students got highly offended by the story and told her parents. And then the teacher was put on administrative leave while the district investigated.

Guarascio said she felt targeted, harassed and forced to resign.

Actually, it is a teacher's job to judge them -- another bit of Jell-O-headed thinking that's all too common these days. But it isn't her job or anyone else's to sand down anything and everything that might be "uncomfortable" for another person.

via @mpetrie98