This was simply too interesting to pass up...

In rural Cassia County, Idaho, high school English teacher Karen Christenson was trying to teach Ray Bradbury's classic futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451, set in a society where all literature is burned. In an attempt to give her students a taste of how some totaliertarian societies banned and censored what people saw and heard, she stood before her sophormore class and ripped apart a Bible.

Bad choice.

After at least three students transferred out of her class, apparantly some people were offended enough to complain to the extent that the school superintendent announced that Ms. Christenson was disciplined for her "over the top" lesson. The exact discipline was not announced, although her principal said that the lesson was a good idea...it just didn't have a good result.

Now if it had been another document we consider precious, say, the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence, would anyone have given it a second thought?

It was definately over the top, but you have to admit that the action accomplished it's purpose...to hopefully get at least a few people to think. That is, afterall, part of what a teacher is supposed to do.