I rarely agree with the idiocy coming from public schools.
However, this teacher is most certainly correct.
I await the appropriate legal defense to take care of this teacher and hopefully impoverish the idiots that disciplined him.
That’s “impoverish” as in “take all their money...NOW!”
I tell my students all the time:
1. If cops show up to your house and there is no visible criminal behavior, DO NOT LET THEM IN.
2. If you are arrested, say nothing other than “I want a lawyer,” until he shows up.
3. Always remember that the police are the prosecution’s professional witness in your court case - be very polite to them, follow their directions, but know your rights.
So the administration has decided to turn one teachable moment (the Bill of Rights contains a provision against self-incrimination) into another teachable moment (schools are part of an evil, big-brother operation to destroy anyone who poses any threat to the oppressive state). Do they really want to do that?
When I was faced with this, I loudly suggested to the class that we lie about the answers, then we shuffled the papers so they could not correlate the paper with a seat. Got sent to the principal but he could do nothing about it.
Drinking, drug use...bad attitude towards gays, church affiliation, parents who keep guns in the home, all to be included in the proposed national educational system database of student and family “troublemakers.”
To “plead the Fifth” is to refuse to answer any question because “the implications of the question, in the setting in which it is asked” leads a claimant to possess a “reasonable cause to apprehend danger from a direct answer”, believing that “a responsive answer to the question or an explanation of why it cannot be answered might be dangerous because injurious disclosure could result.”[Ohio v. Reiner, 532 U.S. 17 (2001), citing Hoffman v. U.S., 351 U.S. 479 (1951); cf. Counselman v. Hitchcock, 142 U.S. 547 (1892)]
Seems the teacher has correctly applied the 5th
Who conducted this ‘survey’ and why were student’s names on them in the first place?
Unless “none of your business” was a possible choice I would not have responded at all (but that’s me- I’ve been obstinate all my life)
When I went to school in the 70s the teachers gave us the ACLU’s book “The Rights of Students” on the first day of class.
I have no problem with this. It would be nice if in addition to tell students about their rights, teachers would also (again) tell them about what is expected, and normal. Having the right to do something doesn’t mean it should be done.
Stand up against tyrrany and you lose your job. Welcome to fascism.
It’s worse than it sounds. When this guy’s classroom was searched they found a copy of the Constitution. He’ll do hard time for that one.
He was issued a “letter of remedy.”
As Mad Dog F. once said, “A letter of remedy is better than no mail at all.”
Great, this teacher is right on one of the rights of the Bill of rights; I wonder how well versed he is on the others.
bkmk
What really ANGERS ME is that the people DEMANDING to know of Alcohol or Drug use now, are the SAME PEOPLE that were GETTING TOTALLY WASTED during their college days (i.e., the Education Majors). Anyone that went to an ESU-type college knows that the Education Majors (i.e., today’s teachers and administrators) were the big drug users and drunks.
So, if anything, they should be protecting the rights of our children to enjoy the same.