Teacher Arrested For Threatening His Students After Drawing Swastikas

[Road Runner]

I put threatening in quotation marks because this sounds more like self-defense to me, but of course you can be the judge on that one.

Teacher arrested for threatening class over swastika drawings he found

David Schroeder, 46, allegedly told the class ‘all Jews have guns’ and that he had 17 in his basement

www.independent.co.uk

 

[whitehall]

Kids today don't know the significance of the swastika symbol. I suspect there is a lot more to the story.

 

[Seymour Flops]

What an idiot. The teaching profession is declining, and with so many high quality teachers seeking other professions, the bottom of the barrel will be scraped all the harder.

That's his reaction to 7th graders drawing a swastika? He's old enough to know better.

Maroon!

 

[Road Runner]

What an idiot. The teaching profession is declining, and with so many high quality teachers seeking other professions, the bottom of the barrel will be scraped all the harder.

That's his reaction to 7th graders drawing a swastika? He's old enough to know better.

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Maroon!

Yeah I'm not sure if they actually would have done anything after drawing the swastikas, or they were just taunting him with them, or it was only a drawing. I think it's like whitehall said, there's a whole lot of this story that we're just not getting.

 

[Unkotare]

Kids today don't know the significance of the swastika symbol. I suspect there is a lot more to the story.

They know. Some just don't appreciate how deeply offensive it is.

 

[JGalt]

He was lying, not all Jews have guns. But they do have gold.

 

[toobfreak]

Kids today don't know the significance of the swastika symbol. I suspect there is a lot more to the story.

Yes, the swastika is actually an ancient Hindu symbol meant to impart good health and life upon the user, that was co-opted by the Germans during the Nazi movement.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Kids today don't know the significance of the swastika symbol. I suspect there is a lot more to the story.

It depends on the ethnicity of the kids. In the Navajo culture the swastika is the symbol of the whirling logs. A symbol of peace and friendship.

 

[JGalt]

Yes, the swastika is actually an ancient Hindu symbol meant to impart good health and life upon the user, that was co-opted by the Germans during the Nazi movement.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Yeah I'm not sure if they actually would have done anything after drawing the swastikas, or they were just taunting him with them, or it was only a drawing. I think it's like whitehall said, there's a whole lot of this story that we're just not getting.

Yes, I agree with whitehall that kids today don't know the significance. Partly because they are taught about it so often, that the Holocaust seems like noise. Partly because they see people calling fellow Americans with different political beliefs "Nazi," and partly just because kids are not adults.

Unless he started teaching the day before this incident, he should know by now that the grade he teaches is one in which kids are at their squirliest. He would not last a day at the junior high in which I teach, and the kids their are better behaved than kids at other schools in the district.

 

[Road Runner]

Yes, the swastika is actually an ancient Hindu symbol meant to impart good health and life upon the user, that was co-opted by the Germans during the Nazi movement.

It depends on the ethnicity of the kids. In the Navajo culture the swastika is the symbol of the whirling logs. A symbol of peace and friendship.

I took away the quotation marks in my title because now even though I'm still torn, with the more details I get, the more it sounds like the teacher was out of line.

 

[BULLDOG]

They know. Some just don't appreciate how deeply offensive it is.

In the 7th grade I didn't know. It was just a cool looking symbol that grownups didn't like. Kinda like a peace sign. I hadn't been taught everything it symbolized. That part of my education came later.

 

[Road Runner]

I didn't know about the swastika actually being a peace sign. I just associate it with German Nazis.

 

[JGalt]

I took away the quotation marks in my title because now even though I'm still torn, with the more details I get, the more it sounds like the teacher was out of line.

Ya think? Telling them “all Jews have guns” and that he had 17 in his basement and would “F*** them up” and “I wish pain on all of you and your families” was pretty extreme.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The Boy Scout "Thanks" badge was used until 1935.

The Use of the Symbol on the Scouts' Thanks Badge

The Use of the Symbol on the Scouts' Thanks Badge

www.worldscoutingmuseum.org

 

[Road Runner]

Ya think? Telling them “all Jews have guns” and that he had 17 in his basement and would “F*** them up” and “I wish pain on all of you and your families” was pretty extreme.

Unless they were actually threatening him first which that part wasn't so clear.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I took away the quotation marks in my title because now even though I'm still torn, with the more details I get, the more it sounds like the teacher was out of line.

The teacher is always out of line. Teachers with very few exceptions are pedophiles.

 

[whitehall]

They know. Some just don't appreciate how deeply offensive it is.

Most kids can't identify the symbol of the U.S. military or name a single Founding Father. In some left wing arenas Old Glory is deeply offensive,. Somethin ain't right about the story.

 

[JGalt]

Unless they were actually threatening him first which that part wasn't so clear.

It was in Grafton, which is right outside of Milwaukee. Everybody's crazy there.

 

[BULLDOG]

I didn't know about the swastika actually being a peace sign. I just associate it with German Nazis.

No. It wasn't a peace sign. In my mind it was just another symbol of rebellion that was easy to draw on a fence. Kids that age do all kinds of dumb stuff without understanding just how dumb it is.