Anyone who is offended by the U.S. Flag should be forced to move to a country with a different flag.
This teacher should be fired.
UNBELIEVABLE! But not really surprising. Nothing surprises me anymore.
And the School Principal's.
And the names of the kid who "objected's" parents.
American flag would offend another student.
So says a teacher of reeducation,time to pull her permit.
I read the article earlier and got the impression from those quoted and from comments to the article that the boy’s picture was not an assignment (???). There appears to be some conflict in the retelling of events.
“22News tried to contact the Superintendent, Dr. Paul Burnim. He refused to go on camera, but told 22News over the phone that nobody ever told Franklin the drawing was offensive, and said the only reason it wasn’t hung was because Franklin was supposed to be doing other work; not drawing a picture. In a statement he said: “Each of our schools flies the American Flag every day. At the Butterfield School, the Pledge of Allegiance is recited by students and staff. And the other schools recite the Pledge of Allegiance at least once per week.””
If true, this raises the question—what was the other assignment that the kid was supposed to be working on?
The principles comment:
“22News tried to contact the Superintendent, Dr. Paul Burnim. He refused to go on camera, but told 22News over the phone that nobody ever told Franklin the drawing was offensive, and said the only reason it wasn’t hung was because Franklin was supposed to be doing other work; not drawing a picture. In a statement he said: “Each of our schools flies the American Flag every day. At the Butterfield School, the Pledge of Allegiance is recited by students and staff”
... seems to be some conflict of stories here. If it was a doodle and not apart of the current assignment, I can understand the, no we are not going to hang it up. If you did that as a policy, a student could “ditch” an assignment in class by drawing instead of working. Moral hazard and all.
According to the Superintendent he was supposed to working on something else rather than drawing in class. Sounds like father is either over-reacting or trying to gin something up.
This story was discussed earlier. Conflicting stories and not enough information in the article to determine which is correct.
Dumb question but isn’t there a flag hanging in the classroom? I am not THAT old but I remeber a flag in the class. I’m 42.