He sounds like he's been stopping at Maurice Bessenger's BBQ down at 302 and Charleston Highway and reading some of the pamphlets.
Still, though. We rail about teachers with liberal viewpoints passing them on to our kids in school. Fair enough. So what happens when we find a teacher with an unpopular viewpoint--in this case about slavery--and he DOESN'T pass it on? Do we automatically throw out anybody who's got a political view who's the least bit kooky? And who defines who's the kook?
This isn't as cut-and-dried as it looks. I don't think his political beliefs about John C. Calhoun or the Confederacy or even slavery are necessarily a reason to ban the guy from the classroom. The only reason I'd be leery about letting the guy teach, is that I'd have a problem with a teacher who automatically assumed that a significant portion of his class were less capable of learning the material from the second he walked in.
Stainless, figured I'd ping you to this one, because it's going to be interesting.
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He says he doesn't, but he does. He was fired from a previous school for flying a Confederate flag in his classroom, after parents asked him repeatedly to remove it.