Kentucky Teacher Reassigned After Burning Flags During Civics Lesson

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[glymers]

Dan Holden, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Stuart Middle School, burned two flags Friday as part of a lesson on freedom of speech, said Jefferson County schools spokeswoman Lauren Roberts said.

[Jumpink]

This clown should have the flag stuffed down his wretched liberal throat

[weegee]

Ginny Adwell, Kelsey's mother and the school's PTA president, said some parents who called for Holden to be fired were "going a little bit overboard" and should remember that the teacher was trying to provoke thought.

If the teacher believed that flag burning was WRONG, he would not have done it. He's trying to provoke attention on the issue of flag burning. End game, make people feel guilty about being upset over it.

The article from the Louisville paper (linked from within the FoxNews article) says that they acknowledge it could be offensive to military families. Dammit, it can be offense to ANY American.

[Stonewall Jackson]

No, according to FoxNews, this idjit has been working for Jefferson County Schools since 1979.

[weegee]

They call it "empathy" when they force every student to stand up and say "I am gay". We know it as indoctrination.

Diversity training is nothing but political reeducation.

Seeing the response to a deliberate provocation can also be educational.

[weegee]

Makes you wonder just how many teachers have burned flags in class since George W. Bush was elected president.

[weegee]

Cited at the bottom of the Louisville article...

In 2001, a teacher in Sacramento, Calif., faced suspension for using a lighter to singe a corner of an American flag in class.

The teacher later was fired, but district officials cited numerous acts of poor judgment and disregard for superiors.


http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060822/NEWS01/608220378

[Tzimisce]

He burned two US flags. Interesting that he didn't burn any other flags (like say, the Mexican flag?) But that would have offended the hispanics in the class....

[<1/1,000,000th%]

At least he wasn't praying. /heavy dripping sarcasm colored by endless irritation at left-wing insistence that only their speech is protected regardless of what the framers of the Bill of Righhts clearly intended when...

[GovernmentShrinker]

Is this the same teacher who was teaching sixth grade in California when he burned an inch of an American flag in class after 9-11 and told his students "don't tell"?

Wow, what a dolt! I can't think of a faster way to spread information than to tell a room full of 6th graders "don't tell".

[Eagle of Liberty]

Or perhaps burning the F9/11 so called documentary.

Ooooh....I like that one! We could all stick a F9/11 CD in our microwaves and send them to Michael Moore.

[maica]

How about starting class with a Bible verse or a prayer to stimulate thought regarding the First Amendment.

[weegee]

It's bad for your microwave.

And why add to his coffers?

You could stage an act of defiance and do that with the public library's copy? Your tax dollars already paid for it and perhaps the fine would be used to buy something more instructive?

[Hacksaw]

Dan Holden, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Stuart Middle School, burned two flags Friday as part of a lesson on freedom of speech, said Jefferson County schools spokeswoman Lauren Roberts said.

If he wanted to be really controversial, he should have read the "Sermon on the Mount". He probably didn't want to get sued and fired though.

[caisson71]

He's another example of what is wrong with our public school system.

[ItsForTheChildren]

One of my daughter's new teachers this year has a Michael Moore poster up in his classroom and already said he wanted them to see Gore's movie. I told her I'm not paying for her to see that tripe.

Meet the teacher night is coming up. I can't wait to meet this one.

[glymers]

the 10 Commandments, The Pledge, and the writings of Our Forefathers should be in every classroom. It's what this Country was founded on. But We the People wouldn't want to Offend Any of the (SARC) wanna be Americans who fly the Mexican and Hezzy flags.

[AdamSelene235]

One of my daughter's new teachers this year has a Michael Moore poster up in his classroom and already said he wanted them to see Gore's movie.

And why are your children still enrolled in this "school"?

[DarthVader]

He requires ADJUSTMENT!!

[GeronL]

Some FReeper chapter should hold a burning of the UN flag and the Koran and see if the media will cover it. =o)

[Protagoras]

How about burning the papers that entitles this teacher to work in a Government Funded School.

How about abolishing government schools instead?