A teacher is an agent of the school board. The school board is an agent of the community that elected them. I am sure that there are bylaws that prevent the desecration of the flag on school property. Or acts that cause disruption or causes distress.
A teacher, while teaching a class, is on company (tax payer) time. He can do his thing on his own time, but being a teacher, he is still under constraints.
A teacher is not allowed to publicly, from the classroom, criticize the administration or school board. Why did he not choose to try that?
Or a teacher is not allowed to use profanity. Why did he not try that?
The whole thing is his effort to be in the news. They should fire his ass.
Okay, based on him being on the public’s dime at the time, the suspension would be proper if there were rules against this type of behavior. He’s to be teaching students, not protesting on the people’s dime. So, suspension is warranted. Outside the classroom, on his own time, school may have a problem.
SCOTUS ruled in 1989 that flag burning is protected free speech.
Interesting conjectures you make, are they backed up in facts ?
I’ll take the teacher at his word - that he was teaching.
I’ll take a guess that the teacher will be exonerated.
Should be interesting to see how this turns out.