Our teachers could do about any thing they wanted to us except curse or do something immoral.
My teacher would have taken me out to the lockers to “talk” and push me into them as he gave me yellin’ to that I wouldn’t forget.
I totally agree, but as a retired teacher I saw this behavior more and more with each passing year. All you can do is set an example and pick your battles carefully as there are many parents who have a lawyer at the ready.
This POS student and his POS mom should be run out of this country. Instead, we have the schools being wrecked by garbage like this.
I could not be a teacher. Sadly,I know retired teachers who now say the same thing.
I think the big problem is that the student’s name is Shemar. Likely he is black and likely he will never reach anything near his full potential because he is coddled by liberals and taught to dismiss America and things that truly matter.
Hell, I’m just totally shocked there is a class there that still recites the pledge at all.
The next time we hear about this kid will be to mourn his promising rap career that was cut short.
Shamar PunK Ass Cooper
Let’s keep it up. We’re raising another generation of bottomfeeding, retarded, America-hating little bastards. Good job. Snowflakes II
And what did that teach the little sh*t?
What did they axed Vince?
but can get the teacher who insisted on proper behavior fired.
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My daughter, teaching 1st grade near Watts, has been threatened by some of her students.
Not physically, but by various trumped up allegations.
She is about to quit, while she still has good standing and her teaching cert.
And she is one of the good ones.
If I were the teacher, instead of bullying, I would have sent him to the principal’s office. Cuz at least in one regard he would be standing.
It’s sad that Mr. Ziebarth actually thought that he had freedom of speech in the state of IL.
Not standing up or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is long time SCOTUS decision. It is a religious issue as well as freedom of speech issue. Originally I think the case involved a quaker or mormon student but my memory is hazy and I could very well be wrong. But SCOTUS ruled that students can not be forces to stand or recite the pledge. This is basic law and the teacher is wrong.
Students wearing black arm bands (during the Vietnam War) as a form of protest was also upheld by SCOTUS. I remember hearing a story a few years back of students catching hell for doing just that. That is why I thought the decision regarding students wearing American Flag shirts was a miscarriage of justice.
When I taught, I ignored the kids who would not stand for the Pledge, it was not worth the battle and it was their right not to stand for the Pledge.
Their fellow students could apply more pressure on them than any teacher.
The Pledge, in a government school, constitutes an establishment of religion.
If mandatory, it constitutes an infringement of the First Amendment.
I love threads about the Pledge because they reveal who knows the true origin and intent of the Pledge (a socialist contrivance originally accompanied by what later came to be known as the “Nazi salute”), and who values the Constitution over symbolic gestures.