OPTING OUT

Tennessee Teacher Does Equivalent Of Grabbing Two Beers & Activating Emergency Chute

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I was expecting crazy talk, racial taunts, a hateful teacher and palpable fear.

I was unprepared to encounter a hapless teacher who seems used to being laughed at finally flip his lid.

The teacher, Donald Woods, doesn't seem completely off his rocker. He doesn't make any overt threats. He doesn't use profanity or racial slurs. He just figuratively says, 'Fuck it, I'm out of here.'

Woods, a geometry teacher at McGavock High in Nashville, Tenn., is reported to have "suffered a nervous breakdown" and is now on administrative leave.

I'm just wondering: Where is his national fan club like the one that rallied around Steven Slater when he bailed on his job as a JetBlue flight attendant?