Posted on 02/06/2013 7:05:13 AM PST by dervish
In honor of MOOOCHELLE (aka Buffalo Butt) I was trolling on youtube and I found a classic song in her honor.
A song I hadn’t heard in years by the group Spinal Tap.
BIG BOTTOMS !!!!!
Enough said !!
And I have a somewhat different view of employers and the employed. Business owners are entitled to their own compensation and the profits of the company. Labor, arguably the most important factor of production, helps to create wealth for the organization; it does not *take* the employer's money.
*24 years in the Navy-salty language the norm. Also I suspect coal miners don't “watch them grammar” much.
A good question, and this answer - whatever happens - is going to have multiple layers to it:
• This is a school in a rural area of Alabama ... next door to my own county, in fact. So I can say for certain the local community sentiment will be supportive to the coach... that area heavily (80-ish%) went for Romney.
• If he's a union member, the AEA (Alabama Education Association) is supposed to support him... but their knee-jerk reaction will be decidedly liberal, so they're likely to let him twist in the wind.
• The school system is really 'quasi-governmental' - operated by the government almost like a public utility. It tends to serve the public interests, so employees should probably hold any opinions to themselves to avoid hassles. But because this was done in rural Alabama, he might keep his job... after an apology and some 'training'... depending on how bent that school board is regarding 'diversity'.
• Overall, though, a "firing" is not the same as a "prosecution" for expressing an opinion, and thus I do not believe the 1st amendment applies here. Heck, administration officials are routinely fired (or they 'resign') after making comments embarrassing to the current administration.
Again: you're free to have an opinion... but you also need to weigh the potential consequences, for there are almost always consequences - and being right doesn't matter.
I guess you cannot tell the truth in Alabama.
No one can deny Michelle has a huge butt, and fudge packing is an abomination.
Yes, I understand the semantics of the employer/employee relationship - and I concur. Though admittedly, if I’m in the position of having me and my business embarrassed by an employee’s actions, then I might very well think of it differently in that instant!
“I guess you cannot tell the truth in Alabama.”
Or any other state
I was VERY clearly informed that in the public schools, you do NOT have first amendment rights. Research it and you will find it to be true.
Oh, and students are a captive audience. Can’t just get up and leave like the Democrats do from legislative bodies when they don’t like what’s going on.
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Whatever they "don't like" within the scope of an employee contract has to be spelled out in clear, published and unbiased school policy.
-- IOW it has to cut both ways.
The raw political correctness of the school administration is NOT a sufficient reason to suspend him...
Without an exhaustive scouring of Alabama case law...
I am relatively sure there are are significant precedents ....(ironically -- vigorously fought and won by our liberal education friends)...
--Concerning freedom of speech and expressions of personal opinions in the classroom and in the loose context of the academic subject.
The coach should at least....
Certainly ask his attorney to assess the financial penalty and damage to his professional reputation as a result of the knee-jerk response by the school system.
Again depending on state law -- he may have grounds to zap the person with wiretap /eavesdropping charges for recording without his knowledge.
Just say'n....
A demand letter on legal letterhead seems to put a stop to a lot of this PC gar-bahhhhj...
Thanks for your thoughts... & enjoy your day.
See my Post #51 above.... thanks
Oh, and students are a captive audience. Can’t just get up and leave like the Democrats do from legislative bodies when they don’t like what’s going on.
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Which is why I kept my political opinions to myself when I was a high school teacher. The ‘Rat teachers in the school did not censor themselves in the least in this area.
I remember that, in 2000, when there was a lot of political talk going on, my students would occasionally bring up politics even though this was a science class. My response was to tell them always that I had my own strong political opinions but that it would be unprofessional of me to foist them upon them.
One day, as I was reminding my seniors that those who were 18 should be registered too vote, one young man asked me on the side which party he should register with. My response was to give him the URLs for the respective parties - ‘Rat and GOP.
I told him the best thing to do would be to look over each site and determine which one seemed be in line with his personal opinions. It was killing me, but I really thought it would be unscrupulous for me to do this any other way.
When he told me a few days later that he had registered R, I was gratified.
I changed careers.
Apparently it was a different teacher.
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