During the 1960's civil rights advocates violated many different laws written in many different states. These laws were disciminatory to say the very least. They were, however, the law. Would you advocate that these laws should never have been challenged simply because they were on the law books?
I don't have the complete story, yet, on this case. Maybe there is more to what the teacher did that justifies the school's response. But, if the only reason for his dismissal is that he displayed flags of other nations in his classroom (on geography), then I don't agree with the law and it should be challenged. If that challenge requires violation of the law, so be it.
The teacher is permitted to hang foreign flags if it is related to curriculum he is actually teaching.
Let me repeat that: the teacher IS permitted to hang foreign flags IF it is related to curriculum he is actually teaching.
So, this sacred "right" you are so lathered about, consists of the "right" of the teacher, who is hired to perform duties in accordance with the policies set forth by the school administrators and the lawful governing authorities of Colorado, to hang foreign flags in his classroom when it is unrelated to his teaching lessons disobeying a specific state law.
This idiot teacher is wasting taxpayer resources and school administrators' time disciplining his stupid ass for this political stunt.
We have SO many real problems in the school, from lack of discipline, violence, gangs, drugs, left-wing indoctrination, NEA stranglehold on school policies, dumbed-down anti-American curriculum, etc etc.
And what you are worked up over is the imaginary "civil right" of a school employee to ignore state law and permanently hang foreign flags at times unrelated to the actual curriculum being taught.
This jerk of a teacher deserves to lose his job and he will also lose his "fight" to change this law. He is a loser.
You, sir, however are a winner. In a thread full of ridiculous hyperbole, you win the award for the most ridiculous hyperbole in a post.
The "civil right" of this school employee to hang foreign flags in a classroom belonging to the school when the flags are unrelated to his teaching lessons, is somehow on a par with acts of civil disobedience by blacks objecting to racial segregation in the 1960s?
ROFL!!!