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Colorado elementary teacher kicks student, 12, out of class for wearing a 'Don't Tread On Me' Gadsden flag - as Gov. Jared Polis slams her claim it is linked to slavery
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 30, 2023 | Emma James

Posted on 08/30/2023 5:39:31 AM PDT by Morgana

A Colorado schoolboy has been kicked out of class for having a Gadsden Flag patch on his backpack – despite the governor calling it a 'proud symbol of the American revolution'.

Footage shows Jaiden, 12, and his mother talking to an administrator from The Vanguard School who claimed that the flag had 'origins with slavery.'

The staffer claims that the patch was 'disruptive to the classroom environment,' as she claimed it has 'origins with slavery.'

He was told that the patch, which has 'Don't Tread on Me' emblazoned on it along with a rattlesnake, was against the district's policy and he was not allowed to go back to class without removing it.

The pupil was told by the administrator: 'So the reason that they do not want the flag – the reason we do not want the flag displayed – is due to its origins with slavery, and the slave trade.

'The bag can't go back if it's got the patch on it, cause we can't have that in and around other kids.'

But his mother was quick to defend her son, claiming that the flag originally comes from the American Revolution as a symbol of the 13 colonies' fight against the British Crown and did not promote slavery.

She can be heard in the video saying: 'It has nothing to do with slavery, that's like the revolutionary war patch that was displayed when they were fighting the British.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arth; colorado; education; gadsden; gadsdenflag
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There it is folks, the stupidest thing I will read all week and it is only Wednesday!

Our teachers are have the IQ of an ash tray.

1 posted on 08/30/2023 5:39:31 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

he fought back and won

bravo!


2 posted on 08/30/2023 5:41:30 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Morgana

Remember when Quaker Oats changed the Snapple label because idiots thought it showed the slave trade, when it actually showed the Boston Tea Party.


3 posted on 08/30/2023 5:42:54 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Morgana

Those who can…do. Those who can’t…teach.


4 posted on 08/30/2023 5:44:29 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: Redleg Duke
Those who can…do. Those who can’t…teach.

Those who can't teach, go into government.

5 posted on 08/30/2023 5:45:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana

Our teachers are have the IQ of an ash tray.

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Some of them are definitely not the sharpest tools in the shed, but I don’t think they are as dumb as they are wokely entitled.

Whenever they want to get the upper hand, they invoke the race card. This teacher probably thought they could get away with it because it wouldn’t become big news. They’d get the kid in trouble and they’d feel proud of themselves.

But their idiotic ploy was exposed.

Now, the real question is, why invoke to race card against this symbol?

In other words, what is it that they are really afraid of?

Is it free and fiercely independent minded people?


6 posted on 08/30/2023 5:46:47 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Morgana

If a liberal talks about slavery and how America should be condemned by it, just mention that the socialism that liberals want is a slave system. If slavery back then was wrong, then what liberals want is wrong.


7 posted on 08/30/2023 5:47:11 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liaaaaaaaaberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Morgana

They see ANY display of patriotism as “racist” because they have been taught to hate the US. A lot of them believe that slavery didn’t exist until the American colonies were estaslished.


8 posted on 08/30/2023 5:54:45 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: Morgana
Anything these brainwashed retards don't like is instantly branded as 'racism'. It's a well established pattern by now.

Bloody doom on 'em.

9 posted on 08/30/2023 5:56:53 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Morgana

We have LET liberals get away with this shite for FAR TOO LONG!

WAYYYYYYYY back to when a jungle became a “rain forest” and a bum became a “homeless person” and your waitress/waiter became a “server”.

WORDS MATTER!

We thought it all BULLSHIRT, but they were “grooming” us to accept their “defining” EVERYTHING!

Now THEY define the difference (if ANY) between a man and a woman.

Biological men in women’s rest rooms and locker rooms, biological men on women’s sport teams, and biological men having their junk removed and female genitals including uteruses “installed”.

Notice me using the term “biological” because they have made the terms (words) “man and “woman” meaningless without it.

We have all just stood by and let them “define” everything and we just sit there!

ENOUGH! ENOUGH ALREADY! FIGHT BACK! REFUSE TO USE THEIR WORDS!

REFUSE TO ACCEPT THEIR IDEOLOGY ON ANYTHING!

Two Americas? You’re damn right there is! MAKE A STAND!

NOBODY but TRUMP for president in 2024, no matter what!

Do NOT vote for a single Democrat. Most Republicans are bad enough.


10 posted on 08/30/2023 6:14:46 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Morgana

What about the democrat party. That’s linked to slavery too.


11 posted on 08/30/2023 6:16:30 AM PDT by Burkean (. )
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To: faucetman

Not the wrong thread, I was supporting FIGHTING BACK against liberals and their ideology.


12 posted on 08/30/2023 6:17:52 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: dfwgator

Those who can’t teach become education bureaucrats.

They are the dumbest of the dumb—and evil sociopaths as well.

Home school bump.


13 posted on 08/30/2023 6:18:23 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Morgana

Per wikipedia, Gadsden made his money in mercantile trade, bought back the rice plantation lost by his father, and owned slaves related thereto. The Gadsden Flag was a symbol of resistance to British rule over the colonies.

It s interesting that the race-obsessed left plays the 5 degrees from Kevin Bacon game with everything they find convenient to link it to slavery. Since everything and everyone on Earth can be fitted to that Procrustean bed, it means nought. The teacher obviously opposes Liberty.


14 posted on 08/30/2023 6:20:23 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Morgana

The teacher needs to be thrown out of the school.


15 posted on 08/30/2023 6:21:09 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: Morgana

In her mind anything to do with America’s founding is racist because America is racist.


16 posted on 08/30/2023 6:22:21 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Morgana

Don’t know much about history...


17 posted on 08/30/2023 6:23:44 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Morgana
Looks like a teachable moment!

The student should arrange for someone (like Ben Shapiro) to speak at a school assembly, with all teachers in the front row.

Then they have to pass a test on the speech in order to keep their job.

😊


18 posted on 08/30/2023 6:29:38 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: faucetman

“Notice me using the term “biological” because they have made the terms (words) “man and “woman” meaningless without it.”

No, that’s just another case of them doing what your post states. Using the term “biological male/female” implies there are other kinds. I won’t accept that. We have to openly and loudly ridicule their abuses of the language.


19 posted on 08/30/2023 6:30:37 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Morgana

Kids teaching American history to school teachers. Awesome.


20 posted on 08/30/2023 6:33:31 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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