Plymouth High students liked Ray Schepansky, but colleagues feared the gun-toting teacher

[Bozita]

Plymouth High students liked Ray Schepansky, but colleagues feared the gun-toting teacher
12:56 AM, Aug. 22, 2011 | 119 Comments
BY M.L. ELRICK
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Ask students at Plymouth High School what they liked best about Ray Schepansky's class, and odds are they'll say the war game he devised that doubles as a final exam.

Cast as soldiers or insurgents, students compete in virtual combat predicaments. Once, a student blew up a camel, angering locals and complicating matters for U.S. forces.

As elaborate as the weeks-long exercise sounds, it pales compared with solving the riddle of Ray Schepansky.

Since the April morning Schepansky, 53, was arrested for bringing a gun to the 6,200-student campus, students, staff, administrators and prosecutors have debated who Schepansky really is.

Is he an unorthodox teacher targeted by administrators and colleagues?

Is he a ticking time bomb, defused just in time?

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M.L. Elrick won a Pulitzer for his work on the Kwame Kilpatrick text message scandal a few years ago.

And, don't miss those comments below the story. They're really something.

[WAFS]

1. Interesting....

I'd have to know more about the situation but it certainly seems something odd is going on here.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Sounds like he had some issues and shouldn't be teaching

:shrug: