Teacher Fired for Stepping on U.S. Flag

[Pogo]

As a hard-won right, dissing the flag is a valid form of political dissent.

And? No one was stopping her in political dissent.

She could have done it in the corridors, in her break, any pretty much anywhere in school grounds.

But the school board didn't want stepping on the flag to be a part of their school curriculum, and obviously they weren't consulted about this addition.

That might be harsh in your opinion, but that's how bureaucracy works.

-- and that's tantamount to not wanting, say, Indian genocide to be part of the school curriculum. Or deciding, "let's teach World War II without the Holocaust, 'cause it's nasty and somebody might be offended".

No it isn't. Its tantamount to saying that stamping on all the flags of the United Nations, might be incredibly offensive - or just inappropriate for the school curriculum.

Are you advocating treading over the German flag, the Indian flag, and the flag of Israel?

Because that won't teach us anything about WW2 or the holocaust.

No learning is ever "inappropriate". In a school or anywhere else.

To repeat the bolded above ---- Appeal to Emotion (that's a fallacy by the way) has no place here. How anybody feels about a fetish is irrelevant to the point of free speech.

Good to know. You should have no problem with David Irving teaching that the holocaust didn't happen then, if 'no learning is ever inappropriate'.

That wouldn't be learning, that would be the opposite -- ignorance.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

To me, if the flag belonged to the teacher, then they should be free to do with it whatever they want.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. Now if I had witnessed their walking all over it, I most definitely would not have hesitated to tell them that they can always leave this country whenever they want to if they hate it that much.

The classroom did not belong to the teacher.

True, but this isn't about the classroom. Its about the teacher stepping on a flag.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[buddhallah_the_christ]

Free speech means that you're free from prosecution from the government. It doesn't protect you from getting fired from your job.
He as a teacher must know this rule. What do we know about the free speech in the USA?

 

[Uncensored2008]

You're free to give an example. Pretty sure I'll be waiting a long time

That would violate the rules.

 

[quorthon]

Am I the one who thinks there's too little news to take somebody's side? Had he done it meaningly or incidentally?

 

[Auld Phart]

Seems he did it as a class lesson.