I would have thought that common sense would have prevailed. making the video was probably not a good idea -- and posting it on the district website was an eve worse one.

A suburban school superintendent says he was only trying to be funny when he took videotaped interviews with his new teachers, spliced in his own gag questions and made the faculty members look like killers, strippers and drug users.

Now he could lose his job.

"How do you like to unwind?" Bremen High School District Superintendent Rich Mitchell asks in the mock documentary that he later posted on the Internet. The tape cuts to a teacher who replies: "I enjoy a lot of leisure activities."

"Such as?" Mitchell asks.

"Killing," says the teacher.

Mitchell asks another teacher: "What were the results of the last drug test that you took?"

The reply: "It was positive."

School board president Evelyn Gleason said Mitchell could be fired over the stunt, though she said the seven-member board will first investigate. "I think at the very least an apology should be made," Gleason said.

"I personally think he stepped over the line when it went on the Web site," she said. "I think it was a bad idea gone wrong."

Now I'm all for a little humour at the beginning of the year, but this seems to have crossed the line. And making the video available where it could circulate is even worse. I wonder if this matter doesn't open the district up to lawsuits.

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