"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
-ynnady
Wait a second, OP. Why is the teacher a "piece of trash"?
Did you read the article you yourself posted with the teacher's commentary? He explains his position and intent clearly and succinctly. There are no vague 'reasons'- he literally said the context and expectation he had in the demonstration of a legal case.
OP, your commentary is problematic to the story being presented. It is both biased, derogatory and foolish. You should have not presented your view alongside the articles.
That is poor message boarding.
To me this isn't offensive at all. He was stepping on the flag not what it represents. It would have been different if he was yelling allah ahkbar while doing but it's clear it was an engageing way to help the students relate to the first admendment. Unless there is some specific rule or law there that makes this fireable or criminal I dont understand why he was suspended other than political pressure from a mostly military area.
Dude seems like an intelligent and caring teacher so if this ruins his career it's a loss for the youth he could have nurtured.
Not in this case, no. Since the teacher specifically stomped on the flag to demonstrate the values it represents, you can't care about the piece of cloth enough to want to throw the teacher out of school, and also support the values the teacher demonstrates at the same time. This is actually a masterful move the teacher pulled out, as it necessarily requires one to take the side in the "pseudo-patriotic nonsense vs societal values" matter.
While reading the OP I imagined them typing the OP wearing only this:
For maximum effect that is.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
While its his right to burn/cut/stomp on the flag, choosing the flag to as the target for the lesson is about as inappropriate as the Quran.
I bet if it were a Quran and the kid were a Muslim we'd see a different reaction from some of the people in this thread.
I'm a very reasonable person. You just don't like getting called on your shit and cornered with our own arguments.
Seems like a strange thing to be against school policy, but schools operate under very restricted Constitutional rights, so it's possible.If its against school policy....than yeah, fire away.
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I meant "not".
"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
-ynnady
Perhaps I've not read all the facts, but all you liberals crowing that this young man is just the conservative version of the perpetually offended SJW that we conservatives always complain about, false equivalence is false equivalence. This student didn't throw a hysteric fit, he didn't disrespect the teacher, he didn't seek a "safe space" or demand the teacher be fired or that her personally receive some other kind of special consideration. All he did was take a picture, pick up a flag, and deliver it to the principle. If all of you were half this civil in expressing your disagreement, we'd have much less to make fun of you over.
The teacher does have a right to desecrate the flag. Anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of the 1st Amendment understands that. He is not however free from the public scorn and professional consequences that may stem from his expression. All that being said, it takes very little personal courage to desecrate the American flag these days as it is very much in vogue. Even if he is terminated in that school district, he'll likely be turned into a martyr rewarded greatly by the well funded and deeply entrenched liberal media and education establishment.