The left politicizes everything it touches.
That’s right, keep the kids ignorant under the lie of protecting them.
. Who knows what could have happened next — maybe young neo-confederates running down the halls doing the rebel yell.
I teach an evening adult education class and we use classrooms at a local high school. My class meets in what is a social stickers classroom during the. It is decorated with all kinds of historical and cultural items, including a hammer-and-sickle flag. I could assume from that that the teacher is a communist, but I won’t.
When I was in middle school, my class had to break up into groups and make a skit on a historical event. My group chose the assassination of McKinley. I portrayed Roosevelt. We assassinated McKinley, excuted Leon Czolgosz, and I got sworn in at the end. These days we would probably be suspended and the teacher disciplined for allowing it. But here it is, nearly fifty years later, and I remember it because it was a vivid learning experience.
I'd rather deport them to a socialist utopia of their choice.
it seems to me the teacher should have a pretty good lawsuit on her hands if she decides to- they ruined her career and income to support herself for simply teaching history? Sounds like extremism discrimination to me-
It was probably the first time these students ever heard of the Civil War.
The school administration because it adheres strictly to political correctness must find a way out of several dilemmas.
First it had the evident inconsistency in defending teacher tenure because tenure is necessary for teachers to operate with freedom of conscience against the requirement of political correctness to censor a teacher's decision to display a disfavored historic symbol.
Second, the administration has to defend the policy which inculcates a view of history to the exclusion of other potential views of history while evading the charge that they are censoring history, thus corrupting the very essence of education.
Third, the administration must defend the principle that it is the administration which decides these issues, not the parents, not the teachers, not the courts, not the state legislature.
How does it solve all of these thorny problems in a stroke? It changes the subject from censorship to child protection. We are not talking here about a political/historical point of view, we are talking about potential risk to the physical safety of children-or so the administration would have you believe.
Unfortunately, the administration would have you believe that on no evidence or at best the flimsiest of evidence and evidence even when only flimsy evidence is more problem producing than the alleged threat itself.
What evidence does the administration adduce in support of the conclusion that displaying the Confederate battle flag, "creates an unsafe environment for students?" No evidence at all really except that the administration does preference that assertion with the finding that “We recognize that regardless of context, to many of our students, families, and staff, the Confederate flag is a racist symbol of hate”.
So the administration is not saying that the flag itself has intrinsic power to endanger children, rather the subjective reaction of "many" of "our students families and staff" might be such as to endanger children. This justification has no doubt been made in consultation with the school administration's lawyers who are aware that the courts have held that censorship of speech (T-shirts, for example) in schools is to be broadly permitted on a child safety basis.
Here we see the enshrinement of subjectivism over the First Amendment. Here government censors speech based on the presumed reaction of unnamed individuals. This is a tendency which the left has been emphasizing for some time now, the undermining of the First Amendment by resort to subjective feelings of others, especially favored classes such as African Americans.
Our posters have instinctively seen this and they say that other symbols, dear to the left if despised by the right, would probably be permitted to adorn the classroom walls of this institution. Political correctness triumphs over the Constitution, over the independent judgment of a teacher, perhaps over the desires of a majority of the parents and, without reference to law or courts, the state agency engages in prior censorship, before the school children have a chance to see the flag.
All we have to do to get around the Bill of Rights is change the label.
“Although this matter is under investigation, it is important to reiterate: Any employee who is found to engage in behavior that creates an unsafe environment for students will face full consequences, including the possibility of initiating termination proceedings.”
Make someone feel unsafe and we’ll destroy your life.
The level of stupidity among liberals is shocking. The Confederate Battle Flag should be displayed/viewed during lessons on the civil war, and the Nazi flag should be viewed during lessons on the European side of WW2. Anyone too delicate to handle that needs to be institutionalized.
The guy was probably a holdover from the days when some teachers actually taught...had to be gotten rid of by any means before his students discovered that most teachers are to stupid/bigoted to teach these days.
In most cases , the difference between a red state and a blue state is 2 or 3%.
I went to the school’s website and submitted one of their online bullying incident report. Identified the teacher as the victim of bullying by the school board.
This is precisely what we warned the south bashing seminar brigade here almost 20 years ago
Hope they are happy
Destroying southern culture is just easy first fruit to attain during the battle to destroy the legacy of whites which we used to call western civilization and everyone studied
I don’t think any of them have ever admitted they were wrong