Posted on 08/20/2010 7:30:35 AM PDT by jessduntno
America... the land of the free and the home of the brave. At least that's what we hear when we sing the National Anthem.
Wait... are we still allowed to sing that song and express our patriotism? I know we are still the home of the brave, but it's become clearer that we are no longer the land of the free. Just ask "former" middle school football coach Bryan Glover, who wrote a song about Barack Obama and sent it to people on his e-mail list. Where did this expression of free speech land him?
The unemployment line, that's where.
As reported by OneNewsNow.com, Glover, a 26-year-old Christian, co-wrote the song "When You're Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail." The song "takes a dig at the current administration and what he believes to be the wrong moves for the U.S." According to the report, Glover sent the song to everyone in his personal e-mail list, "which included parents from Grassland Middle School, where he coached football."
That's when the trouble began. Within 90 minutes of sending out the song, Glover heard from his head coach that parents were asking that Glover be fired.
"When the coach first called me, he said his phone was blown up with parents saying that I was being politically incorrect -- quote, unquote -- if you will, and that some of them were even reading into racial overtones in the song," Glover explains.
Listen to the song for yourself and see if there is ANY reference to race in it at all. Why do people have to knee-jerk and claim racism just because someone doesn't like Obama? It's because they are so enamored with him and his socialist programs that they think anyone who doesn't like him must be a racist.
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
If he sent it out to parents, he’s cooked. But just to get technical, courts have tended to protect teachers’ right to engage in controversial speech outside of school as long as they aren’t bashing school officials or doing things that might harm the school’s reputation. Much depends, of course, on whether or not a teacher has tenure.
Ironically, they have a quick-link, on their web page, to report bullying.
I think the coach was bullied irrationally.
http://www.wcs.edu/gms/Bullying.htm
finally, the Administration, with emails and phone numbers. Includes the AD and Principal.
http://www.wcs.edu/gms/Staff%20Profiles%20New/adm_office.htm
"I'm surprised you didn't know."
What is that supposed to mean?
So, is it your contention that we should accept the fact that teachers are free to indoctrinate?
Remember this?
Video: Parents angry over Obama song at NJ elementary school
Once you make excuses for teachers that are dishing out political propaganda you agree with, you are also making excuses for teachers that are dishing out political propaganda you do not agree with.
Elementary and high school education and partisan political advocacy do not mix. Period. No matter which flavor of partisan politics they are dishing out.
I don;t disrespect your point of view. But, one is a coach doing it, not to students but to his friends. The other is coercing students to comply. They’re really quite different, wouldn’t you say?
During the summer of 2007, our faculty members received training in two new programs. Capturing Kids’ Hearts and the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program are both designed to help build relationships between students and teachers and students and their peers. A special period is inserted into the daily schedule that we are calling “General Intermission.” This period will include one day for relationship building, one day for intramurals, and three days each week for study and reading time.
My letter to the Super and Principal;
Dr. Susan Curtis
Principal
Grasslands Middle School
Dr. Curtis,
I have read extensively and heard about, the recent firing of your football coach for sending out a song that he wrote that is critical of the current administration. If this was done on his own time, sent from his own computer to his personal email list and did not use any school resources, how could his summary dismissal be a positive example for the children?
If personal and private expression of political thought and expression is met with this type of immmediate summary dismissal, do we not teach that you should never “question authority” or “speak truth to power?”
I have seen the lyrics and there is nothing in them to raise concern about racism or any personal attack or threat. I simply do not understand the stance you have taken.
Sincerely,
“And what about the teachers who did the Obama mmmm mmmm mmmm song. I remember a lot of us trying to get them fired.”
Maybe YOU did, I did not. Nothing there.
The cause is that he sent partisan political e-mail to a list of people, that were not his personal friends, that were, in effect, the clients of his employer.
This is the third time I have explained this.
You can send your personal friends whatever you please.
Once you get a list of your employer's clients and start sending them partisan political e-mails, dirty jokes, etc., your employer will not be happy and you may very well be fired.
If you do not believe me, try it.
Anyone with details, please post citations.
Guy is an idiot and can’t claim immunity for stupidly sending out the song in an email.
It was inappropriate for his position and relationship to the parents and children.
He had to have known, his controversial song would not be well received by at 50% of those on email list, for their political leanings.
Next time use your frickin’ head, coach.
I will give you a pass for being 26 and chalk it up to leftover adolescent.
IF .... IF .... it had been only "to his friends", then it would have been perfectly O.K.
But, that's the rub. It was NOT solely "to his friends".
Your "friends" do not complain and ask that you be fired.
Where he messed up is that he included a list of parents in his "personal friends" list. He mixed "clients" with "personal friends".
As I posted above: "The cause is that he sent partisan political e-mail to a list of people, that were not his personal friends, but were, in effect, the clients of his employer.
You can send your personal friends whatever you please.
Once you get a list of your employer's clients and start sending them partisan political e-mails, dirty jokes, etc., your employer will not be happy and you may very well be fired."
When anyone on the right makes a derisive comment about the ONE, or questions his motives, or protests his agenda (or the mosque), there is a call for an investigation or a firing.
The attitude that you have taken in this (I'm not condemning, just making an observation) is precisely the reason why the left gets away with all they do and the right is subjected to insult after insult after insult (often resulting in firings, resignations, prosecutions, etc, etc, etc.). Until WE stand up and say enough the left will continue using this form of censorship against us.
How many times does this have to be explained to you?
THE MAN INCLUDED A LIST OF HIS EMPLOYER'S CLIENTS (THE PARENTS)IN HIS " PERSONAL EMAIL LIST".
Your employer's clients are NOT "your personal friends". They do NOT belong on your "personal email list".
If you start sending partisan political emails, dirty jokes, etc., to your employer's clients, you will be scolded, at the very least, or fired.
Your "personal friends" do not call up your boss and demand that you be fired for sending them an e-mail they did not appreciate.
Pissed off clients do.
I do not think so..
I had already asked that question - the answer is no, they were not fired (I already knew the answer when I posed the question).
In this case his employer was the government, in particular a local school district. 14th Amendment anyone?
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