Let's see...
I can't hang up the Golden Rule unless I'm teaching it over the next two weeks?
I can't put up a picture of Abraham Lincoln unless I teach about him in the next month?
I can't put up a poster of the Statue of Liberty unless I'm doing a lesson on it, period?
If there is a law prohibiting the above, then if you did those things, you would be in violation of the law. We are discussing the breaking of law here, not classroom teaching techniques. If there is a law regarding certain aspects of classroom teaching techniques and you do decide to violate that law, then you will suffer the consequences. The good thing about a democratic republic like the USA is that we can address laws we disagree with by approaching legislatures and having said law changed or repealed.
I know more about the subject I'm teach than the Principal, yes - I'm the one he/she hired to teach it. If they simply want someone to spout their liberal mind-control political drivel, then they can teach it themselves. Because yes, they DO know way more about that than the average teacher.
I pray to God that the above in red was just a typo, or a mental hiccup, on your part.
oh8eleven: you are simply being ugly and abusive. I have done nothing to warrant your hatred, and neither has anyone else on this thread - so I will assume that I have done nothing wrong, and that you are simply having a bad day. At least I certainly hope so; it would be a shame for someone to go through life filled with hatred and vile statements for people who disagree with them on little things.
Surture: yes, it was a mental hiccup. After I posted I was aware that I had left out the "ing" on the word "teaching". But I didn't correct; I have a lot on my mind right now. You see, I am waiting for a call from Iraq... my daughter had a very dangerous call-out yesterday, and I have been hoping to hear from her. Her military mentor was killed by an IED, after she herself came under mortar fire and ambush while out on EOD support.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ba8614f5f4b.htm
My daughter was supposed to go to college on her opera scholarship. But instead, with my blessing she chose to enlist in the military after September the Eleventh. Yes indeed, the person you patriots have been publicly castigating as a stupid, "public school", preschool teacher - an idiot who thinks flags could be used for a geography lesson - raised a soldier who at this very moment is risking her life in a very dangerous mission.
So while I sit here and wait for word from her, some supreme patriots on this board have taken it upon themselves to tell me - a homeschooling mom who has a daughter in the military - that I am not as holy, as patriotic, as good or as smart as they are - because I believe that flags could be used in a lesson for geography.
While you self-anointed American Heroes attack me for thinking differently than you do about education, my real American Hero is being attacked in Iraq, and I pray to God I hear from her again.
Thank you all for making it so clear what you think of me. I'll try to remember how worthless I am to all you holy ones while I make out my care package to my daughter and her team members in Iraq. God forbid that this stupid preschool teacher should ever think that she is as good as you...