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!!!
"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"
Sorry, I wasn't aware that you possessed such background knowledge of this case that you knew this "idiot teacher" was hanging flags which did not relate to teaching geography.
"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."
I'm making comments, as are many others, in an attempt to have a dialogue regarding an issue. I'm not "lathered" about this case. OTOH, having worked in public education for the past 12 years I an quite aware that classroom teachers are ALLOWED to place in their classrooms any device which assists their teaching of curricula. I am also aware that there is no prohibition on when or how long such devices may be displayed. Considering the nature of this teacher's subject, I'd say display of the flags of other nations is pertinent throughout the entire school year. There must have been something about the way he went about displaying the flags which cause the problem (as stated before I do not have those facts at hand).
"This idiot teacher is wasting taxpayer resources and school administrators' time disciplining his stupid ass for this political stunt."
This is as opposed to the waste of taxpayer money and the time of the administrators for disciplining someone for what may amount to a nothing violation?
"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?"
So then, you'd like to see classroom teachers completely stiffled in their methods of teaching so as to comply with some inane and useless law some bureacrat decided was a good idea. As you mentioned before, teachers are faced with a multitude of societal problems. If his students are making progress through his method of using visual aids, then what is the problem. For all you, or I, know, he teaches a classroom full of students who belong to a group that had been denied access to appropriate public education during the past century. Hyperbole? Do you wish to deny children an appropriate education because some idiot bureacrat made such an inane law?
No, I'd say you've won the Hyperboly award.