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Student Sues 'Anti-Christian' Teacher Over Remarks in Class
Fox News ^ | 4/02/2008 | Anita Vogel

Posted on 04/02/2008 5:40:59 PM PDT by Saoirise

A student and his family have filed a federal lawsuit demanding that a popular European history teacher at California's Capistrano Valley High School be fired for what they say were anti-Christian remarks he made in the classroom.

Chad Farnan, a 16-year-old sophomore, says the teacher, James Corbett, told his students that “Jesus glasses” obscure the truth and suggested that Christians are more likely than other people to commit rape and murder.

Farnan recorded his teacher telling students in class: “What country has the highest murder rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rape rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rate of church attendance? The South!” Farnan said he took the tape recorder to class to supplement his class notes.

“It was very hard for me because it’s like basically telling me all this stuff that I’ve believed my whole entire life — it’s just basically trying to throw it out the window,” Farnan told FOX News.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristian; dixielist; federallawsuit; jamescorbett
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To: Saoirise

I would bet that California has more rapes and murders than the entire “south” (excluding Florida).


21 posted on 04/02/2008 6:55:51 PM PDT by ryan71
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To: DaveLoneRanger; 2Jedismom; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; Antoninus; arbooz; bboop; bill1952; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. If you want on/off this list, please freepmail me. The main Homeschool Ping List by DaveLoneRanger handles the homeschool-specific articles. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list.
22 posted on 04/02/2008 7:01:42 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Saoirise

Atheists take the moral high road regularly with Christians.


23 posted on 04/02/2008 7:03:02 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: yarddog
The teacher is either stupid or a liar. I suspect the latter.

Not both?

Maybe the teacher and the school district should ask Jim McDermott whether or not to accept the offer of settlement..

24 posted on 04/02/2008 7:04:10 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: metmom; wintertime

At the rate new reasons to homeschool appear, we could just about support a blog site devoted to that topic alone.


25 posted on 04/02/2008 7:04:13 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Those in the national Republican leadership do the work of three men- Moe, Larry, and Curly.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

It’s feast or famine. Either we go a couple weeks without one reason or we get a couple weeks worth in two days.


26 posted on 04/02/2008 7:06:14 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Saoirise
Farnan recorded his teacher telling students in class: “What country has the highest murder rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rape rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rate of church attendance? The South!” Farnan said he took the tape recorder to class to supplement his class notes.

LOL, what part of the country has the highest percentages of African-Americans? The South!

27 posted on 04/02/2008 7:10:45 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: DouglasKC
Imagine if he had been talking about blacks this way!

The funny thing is, he was!

28 posted on 04/02/2008 7:11:41 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: metmom

If this kid was home schooled, would any of this classmates know the truth? This story is why some kids need to stay in public schools.


29 posted on 04/02/2008 7:12:42 PM PDT by ThomasThomas
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To: ThomasThomas

Yeah, but then you’re punishing the enlightened kid. It’s not a 16-year old’s duty and responsibility to have to instruct the class in the truth, it’s the teacher’s. I had to do that at 14 with a jaw-droppingly incompetent, ignorant and racist teacher and it was not a fun task. It was embarrassing, most especially for the teacher.


30 posted on 04/02/2008 7:20:16 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~***Just say NO to the "O"***~~~)
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To: Saoirise
Like all cowardly, effete liberal teachers when they're caught, this over-educated marxist falls back on the same old lame excuse "I'm just trying to get the students to think" and variations thereof.

Kudos to the parents who are getting right on this brain-washer's tail. And they raised their kid right, also.

I wonder if they're freepers....and if not, they should be. That's the highest compliment I can give them.

Leni

31 posted on 04/02/2008 7:23:07 PM PDT by MinuteGal (I Love My Country More Than I Dislike McCain,.....Sincerely, A FRedhead)
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To: Saoirise

It is way past time that Christian parents start filing suit against government schools and teachers who persecute their children by ridiculing their faith.

Muslim parents certainly don’t have the problem of teachers slandering Mohammed or Allah in classes that their children must take. I wonder why.


32 posted on 04/02/2008 7:32:34 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Saoirise

“What country has the highest murder rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rape rate? The South!...”

The FBI has crimes stats which would enable this fool to break his little rant down to one more division. But he’s probably not really interested in providing all the relevant information available. Seems like the type who really gets off on making a fool of himself, so what if unwittingly.


33 posted on 04/02/2008 7:36:07 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Saoirise
What country has the highest murder rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rape rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rate of church attendance? The South!”

LOL! He is saying "the South" is a country? Well, actually, he got THAT PART right. I ain't reconstructed.

34 posted on 04/02/2008 7:38:52 PM PDT by Jemian ( Save your Confederate money ....!)
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To: heartwood
I looked up stats at schools-data.com for a Chicago HS, which was the topic of a thread earlier today. Here's a comparison of that Chicago school with the one on this thread. Note the cost per pupil for each:

Capistrano Valley High - Mission Viejo, CA  

City: Mission Viejo, CA

School Enrollment: 2652

White students: 70.8%
Black students: 0.8%
Hispanic students: 20.6% Asian students: 5.8%

Dropout rate: 0.4%

Dollars spent per student: $5850

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CRANE-TECHNICAL-PREP-COMMON-HS-CHICAGO

City: CHICAGO, IL

School type: HIGH SCHOOL

School Enrollment: 1249

White students: 0.3%
Black students: 98.8%
Hispanic students: 0.7%
Asian students: 0.2%

High School graduation rate: 62.5%
HS graduation rate for male students: 47.5%
HS graduation rate for female students: 75.9%

Dollars spent per student: $8,379

35 posted on 04/02/2008 7:42:49 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Saoirise
What country has the highest murder rate? The South!

So that whole succession thing is still going on?

36 posted on 04/02/2008 7:46:12 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: MinuteGal

“this over-educated marxist “

He’s over-schooled, definitely not over-educated. Maybe we can hang on to a respectable definition of education.


37 posted on 04/02/2008 7:48:03 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Saoirise

New York City has a higher murder rate than most cities in the South.

What does that say about Jews?


38 posted on 04/02/2008 7:48:12 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: ThomasThomas
This story is why some kids need to stay in public schools.

At what point would you say that enough kids have been sacrificed to the public schools?

One million, ten million? How many?

39 posted on 04/02/2008 7:48:20 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Ken H
Does The South Bronx count as part of the south? Just wondering as if the teacher can say stupid things why not me? lol
40 posted on 04/02/2008 7:49:44 PM PDT by JimC214
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