Maine HS teacher forced to remove hello kitty christmas tree

[Preacher]

Maine High School Teacher Told to Remove 'Hello Kitty' Christmas Tree from Classroom - Breitbart

This is just DUMB! The country has gone to hell when you can't even have a god damn hello kitty christmas tree with NO religious symbols like angels or crosses or anything on it.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Liberals suck the joy right out of Christmas. In fact they just suck period

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Maine High School Teacher Told to Remove 'Hello Kitty' Christmas Tree from Classroom - Breitbart

This is just DUMB! The country has gone to hell when you can't even have a god damn hello kitty christmas tree with NO religious symbols like angels or crosses or anything on it.

Work for the man, follow the man's rules.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Liberals suck the joy right out of Christmas. In fact they just suck period

A pagan symbol celebrating a pagan holiday is Joy for The Christ? Curious...

 

[Toro]

We don't need no Japanese shit in Murica!

 

[chikenwing]

Maine High School Teacher Told to Remove 'Hello Kitty' Christmas Tree from Classroom - Breitbart

This is just DUMB! The country has gone to hell when you can't even have a god damn hello kitty christmas tree with NO religious symbols like angels or crosses or anything on it.

Work for the man, follow the man's rules.

Perfect example of just how screwed up posters are like this poster,The guy doesn't work for the man,teachers work for the community,the tax payers,along with every other PUBLIC employee.
Just another ,gotta have the gov run my life stupid.

 

[Arianrhod]

Maine High School Teacher Told to Remove 'Hello Kitty' Christmas Tree from Classroom - Breitbart

This is just DUMB! The country has gone to hell when you can't even have a god damn hello kitty christmas tree with NO religious symbols like angels or crosses or anything on it.

Why does anyone need a god damn (your words) pagan symbol in their classroom, anyway?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Maine High School Teacher Told to Remove 'Hello Kitty' Christmas Tree from Classroom - Breitbart

This is just DUMB! The country has gone to hell when you can't even have a god damn hello kitty christmas tree with NO religious symbols like angels or crosses or anything on it.

Work for the man, follow the man's rules.

Perfect example of just how screwed up posters are like this poster,The guy doesn't work for the man,teachers work for the community,the tax payers,along with every other PUBLIC employee.
Just another ,gotta have the gov run my life stupid.

Learn to read an org chart. If there's someone above you, do as they say or lose your job. It's not a hard thing to understand and it's a good thing to learn.

 

[depotoo]

Actually, if it were challenged I believe the teacher would win.

 

[Davros]

I agree. Dumb.

The tree was perfectly harmless.

The superintendent is a moron. I'm totally with this teacher.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Actually, if it were challenged I believe the teacher would win.

Hello Kitty is not a religion. Then again, a Christmas tree is Pagan. Is Hello Kitty a Pagan god or godess?

And yes, that's really what you think it is...

 

[Care4all]

from the local newspaper on it...


Why it’s perfectly OK to have a Christmas tree in a public school classroom
By The BDN Editorial Board

Posted Dec. 22, 2015, at 10:38 a.m.

Does a pink, artificial Christmas tree with secular ornaments, displayed in a public school classroom for the holiday season, communicate the government’s endorsement of a particular religion?


That’s the legal question at the heart of the debate over whether Bangor High School Principal Paul Butler was in the right last week when he asked a math teacher to remove just such a decoration from her classroom.


The Supreme Court has considered a number of questions concerning the appropriateness of publicly sponsored holiday displays in the past three decades. The highest court also has considered whether it’s legal to permanently display religious symbols on public property.


The answer on whether public holiday displays are appropriate isn’t always clear cut, but cases such as Gordon’s are. Her 32-inch, artificial Christmas tree is clearly allowed under the First Amendment, it’s recognized as a secular symbol of the holiday season and Butler was wrong to ask her to remove it.


There’s an extreme for what’s surely not allowed on public property: Permanent religious displays that clearly imply the government’s endorsement of a particular faith. The Supreme Court settled that issue in 1980, when the justices overturned a Kentucky state law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. The display had no “secular legislative purpose,” the justices found, such as a lesson on religious faiths and their role in society. The requirement was “plainly religious in nature” and not allowed under the First Amendment.


Four years later, the Supreme Court weighed in on a Rhode Island city’s seasonal, municipally sponsored holiday display that featured a number of classic holiday season symbols — a Christmas tree, reindeer and Santa Claus — as well as a creche.


The court found Pawtucket was within its rights, despite the religious nature of the creche, because it could acknowledge the historical role of religion in U.S. history without endorsing a specific faith. In ruling on that case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote an opinion that has proven most pivotal over time in settling questions over the appropriateness of public religious displays. O’Connor established a test of sorts that judges could apply to public holiday displays to determine whether they were constitutional.


The key question for O’Connor was whether someone could reasonably interpret the display, taken as a whole — including its location and whether it’s permanent or temporary — as the government’s endorsement of a religion. That means a government-sponsored, publicly displayed creche isn’t always permissible, and it’s not always impermissible. It depends on the context. (In 1989, O’Connor found a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Christmas display in a county courthouse that featured a creche unconstitutional in part because it also featured a clearly religious banner that read: “Glory to God in the Highest.”)


Applying O’Connor’s test to Gordon’s Christmas tree, the answer becomes rather clear. Did her display of a pink, artificial tree for the week leading up to Christmas convey her endorsement of a particular faith?


The tree was only to remain in Gordon’s classroom temporarily, meaning it would never become a permanent religious fixture. The tree featured no Christmas ornaments — only Hello Kitty decorations. And it imparted no verbal Christmas message. Plus, in that same 1989 case in which O’Connor determined an overtly religious display with a creche to be in violation of the first amendment, she and other justices concluded that the holiday season had “attained a secular status in our society,” with the Christmas tree as the season’s “preeminent secular symbol.”


Of course, school administrators face the daunting challenge of balancing education, the law, an acknowledgement of the holiday season and ensuring all students, regardless of religious background, find school a comfortable and welcoming place.


In Gordon’s case at Bangor High School, the removal request was better suited to a permanent display of the Ten Commandments than a week long display of a pink tree meant to bring in the holiday cheer.

 

[Davros]

Actually, if it were challenged I believe the teacher would win.

Hello Kitty is not a religion. Then again, a Christmas tree is Pagan. Is Hello Kitty a Pagan god or godess?

And yes, that's really what you think it is...

I don't think it's anything, you sick fuck.

Regardless of whether she would win a case, the superintendent is a moron.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Actually, if it were challenged I believe the teacher would win.

Hello Kitty is not a religion. Then again, a Christmas tree is Pagan. Is Hello Kitty a Pagan god or godess?

And yes, that's really what you think it is...

I don't think it's anything, you sick fuck.

Regardless of whether she would win a case, the superintendent is a moron.

Your opinion is noted but she works for the man and he sets the rules, within reason and this is well within reason.

And that, is a Hello Kitty vibrator. Would you have minded him telling her to remove that, and play with it only at home?

 

[turzovka]

Maine High School Teacher Told to Remove 'Hello Kitty' Christmas Tree from Classroom - Breitbart

This is just DUMB! The country has gone to hell when you can't even have a god damn hello kitty christmas tree with NO religious symbols like angels or crosses or anything on it.

Work for the man, follow the man's rules.

Perfect example of just how screwed up posters are like this poster,The guy doesn't work for the man,teachers work for the community,the tax payers,along with every other PUBLIC employee.
Just another ,gotta have the gov run my life stupid.

Learn to read an org chart. If there's someone above you, do as they say or lose your job. It's not a hard thing to understand and it's a good thing to learn.

Not exactly. If the man above you fires you, the teachers' union will always be there to help you get your job back. And the liberal courts will also be your friend.

The number of teachers fired in NYC public schools over a period of years is shocking. Next to none. Even if they were perverts or loafers. Unions have taken advantage of their power position and corrupted the system. IMO

 

[depotoo]

And yes, the Supreme Court considers a tree minus religious symbols to be secular.

Actually, if it were challenged I believe the teacher would win.

Hello Kitty is not a religion. Then again, a Christmas tree is Pagan. Is Hello Kitty a Pagan god or godess?

And yes, that's really what you think it is...

I don't think it's anything, you sick fuck.

Regardless of whether she would win a case, the superintendent is a moron.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Your Hello Kitty pink fake tree (honoring Jesus?) is back, so you can relax now: Everything Is Offensive–Even Pink Hello Kitty Christmas Trees; UPDATE: The Tree Can Stay

 

[Fang]

Your Hello Kitty pink fake tree (honoring Jesus?) is back, so you can relax now: Everything Is Offensive–Even Pink Hello Kitty Christmas Trees; UPDATE: The Tree Can Stay

In other words, when the story got out and people realized this jack-ass took political correctness to a new low he caved. Good.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Your Hello Kitty pink fake tree (honoring Jesus?) is back, so you can relax now: Everything Is Offensive–Even Pink Hello Kitty Christmas Trees; UPDATE: The Tree Can Stay

In other words, when the story got out and people realized this jack-ass took political correctness to a new low he caved. Good.

I'm sure Jesus is thrilled that he can once again be honored, by this:

 

[EverCurious]

Will we soon be getting rid of the National Christmas Tree? Is that where this is headed?