re: Local St. Amant HS teacher to become famous?

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this probably should be 'quash'...I wish your teachers had focused on teaching and not giving personal opinions.

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Actually I meant squash...as in use it as an excuse to further mistreat the student for their perceived impertinence. Not simply cutoff their ability to counter argue.

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Jsut

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No, you didn't.

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Learned folks would use 'quash'...

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Well, we would use the verb “quash” for the crushing of something in a nonphysical sense (say, a rebellion or a rumor) and “squash” for when the object is physically crushed (like a beer can or a bug).

However, both of these verbs were used for hundreds of years to refer to physical and nonphysical crushing, though “quash” seems to have lost its physical sense in contemporary usage.

We’ve checked a half-dozen standard dictionaries and most of them say “squash” can be used for crushing a box, a rebellion, a rumor, or a heckler.

But most of them say “quash” can be used in only two senses: (1) to set aside a legal ruling, and (2) to suppress or silence something, like an uprising or a rumor.

As we’ve said, we prefer to use “squash” for crushing boxes, not rebellions, but we could find only one usage guide that backs us.

Garner’s Modern American Usage (3rd ed.) says “squash” means just one thing: to flatten something by crushing or squeezing.

We had a brief posting a few years ago on “quash” and “squash,” but your question gives us a chance to update and expand on what we said then about these squishy words.

Both “quash” and “squash” are quite old and share the same Latin ancestor, though “quash” is far the older, according to published references in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Violating the school board's code of conduct and being a shitty role model for the kids you teach would be my guess.

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so exercising our right to protest is being a shitty role model? please explain.

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Teachers in MS have to sign a code of ethics. This would in fact break that code and the entire liscense could get pulled.

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seriously... WGAF?

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Y'all are worse than SJWs when it comes to trying to get people fired over some dumb arse shite.

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