Posted on 08/22/2014 11:42:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SELMA, Ala. - An Alabama teacher was suspended without pay after being accused of having sixth-grade students re-enact the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.
The Selma Times-Journal quoted Dallas County School Superintendent Don Willingham as saying the social studies teacher used poor judgment during a lesson on current events.
School officials haven't identified the teacher, who works at Brantley Elementary School....
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I’m hoping that someone has asked this question already, “does the school have a zero-tolerance policy?”
She is obviously a complete moron.
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If I had a child in that class I'd be suing the district for an amount with too many zeros to count!
Again TM photo of young boy ...
I wouldn't be opposed to this if they reenacted both sides of the events. I suspect the school system is upset because it was a shooting and violated the "no tolerance" on guns overkill.
If the students had the right to chose and weren't given a short list, then the question becomes, was the question designed to get them to react the shootings. Or were other choices readily available.
I wouldn't be opposed to this if they reenacted both sides of the events. I suspect the school system is upset because it was a shooting and violated the "no tolerance" on guns overkill.
If the students had the right to chose and weren't given a short list, then the question becomes, was the question designed to get them to react the shootings. Or were other choices readily available.
How about — I don’t know — FIRING this dumbass?!
The problem has been the focus on irrelevant arguments – some of which are actually unsupported by the evidence.
1. ‘George Zimmerman (GZ) racially profiled Trayvon Martin (TM)’ There is no evidence of this.
2. ‘GZ disobeyed an order by the police’ * The civilian dispatcher, Sean Noffke, testified that he did not give GZ an order and, in fact, he, like his fellow dispatchers, are trained not make comments that sound like commands. * Noffke also testified under cross that, as a result of his asking GZ which way TM was going, GZ could have reasonably interpreted this as being asked to follow Martin. * It is also not a crime in Florida to disregard a comment made by a civilian dispatcher.
3. ‘GZ got out of his car’ Not a crime on public property and not negligent either.
4. ‘GZ followed TM’ Again, anyone can follow anyone on a public street unless the followee has obtained a restraining order against the follower and even there, the RS only places time, place, and manner restrictions on the person enjoined.
5. ‘GZ wasn’t really injured’ * Under Florida’s self-defense laws, one doesn’t have to be injured AT ALL to use deadly force * No one is required to refrain from defending himself while another is engaged in or attempting to commit a felony.
6. ‘TM is dead through no fault of his own’ * If you believe that TM assaulted GZ, then he IS dead as a result of his own actions.
7. ‘GZ could have left’ * Under Florida law, there is not a duty to withdraw rather than use deadly force * TM was straddling GZ so how the latter was supposed to leave the scene is unanswered.
8. ‘GZ was armed and TM wasn’t’ * One’s fists can be considered weapons and can result in severe bodily harm or death. * GZ was legally carrying a weapon * There is no requirement under the law that the same weapon be used by the assailant * A homeowner can kill an intruder whether or not he has been threatened * Those that attack cannot feign surprise if they are met with superior firepower.
9. ‘Stand Your Ground!’ * SYG is NOT at issue in this trial. * The defense is a classic self-defense case.
10. ‘Black men NEVER get to use SYG!’ * Wrong http://tinyurl.com/nboht35
11. ‘GZ is a man and TM was a boy!’ * As if ‘boys’ don’t commit murder, rape, and assault everyday in this country.
She’ll probably get promoted to assistant principal, if I know modern day education.
There’s not enough information on the incident to decide anything.
What if the problem the school has here was that the reenactments were proving the innocence of the shooters in these cases?
Then she’d have been fired, I assure you. And probably black-balled from ever working in education again. LOL
Gosh I hope she didn’t use pop-tarts chewed into a shape of a gun! She could have gotten a lot of children suspended!!!
The question is, was the teacher giving accurate information to the students for them to work with? Because it’s really unlikely that she’d be fired for toeing the enemedia’s line of lies.
The Gaza Arabs (no such thing as Palestinians) are really good at brainwashing their children into being irrational, hate-filled killers. Looks like the democrats and their blind supporters are going down the same road here all in the name of gaining and holding political power. This is truly pathetic and sickening.
Did they reenact the black dude TM beating up the ‘white’ dude GZ?
How are they supposed to re-enact this when they can’t even make a “gun” with their thumb and forefinger without being suspended?
Gimme dat money! Their website lists two 6th grade teachers: Cathy Cunningham and LaKeidra Love. Which one do you think did this?
$20 says it was because somebody said “gun”.
The teacher acted stupidly!
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