Don’t confuse personal disapproval, and advocacy of disapproval, with advocacy of government imposing laws and penalties for things I disapprove of. I disapprove of letting children play with toy guns, but would certainly not support laws prohibiting it. And I disapprove of people posting photos of themselves pointing guns at a camera (i.e. at the viewer), but their right to do so is clearly protected by the First Amendment.
In the case of the school teacher, as I’ve said before, I disapprove of the very existence of public schools, but as long as they exist, I support terms of employment that allow schools to suspend or fire teachers who display poor judgement and immaturity, in settings that can readily be observed by their dtudents.
The whole scheme of bringing government funding into spheres where it shouldn’t be, and then disallowing reasonable regulation of what goes on there, is part of the grand socialist scheme of forcing all of us to submit to a government-prescribed lifestyle, at our own expense. 100% of the taxpayers in a given school district may want prayer in the schools, but the government takes their money and uses it to run schools where prayer is prohibited. I have a problem with that.
The same thing is happening with “private” colleges and universities. The government takes taxpayers money, uses it to fund student loan subsidies and outright grants, making this scheme so huge that almost no college/university can afford to make itself ineligible for this form of funding for its students (simply can’t compete in the marketplace, when all their competitors for students are offering this option), and through this “government funding” link, the government then prohibits the schools from imposing the standards that the administration and board and major alumnae donors want. Instead, a bizarre and constitutionally indefensible mountain of government standards become the norm at virtually every post-secondary institution in the US (e.g requiring the name number of sports scholarships and varsity sports team slots for women as men, even when a much smaller percentage of women have any interest in varsity sports; prohibiting the outright firing of idiots like Ward Churchill, even though they spout bizarre rantings instead of teaching actual information).
Allowing this government-funding link to trump common sense is submission to socialism. In the increasingly rare cases when a public school district manages to get away with imposing common sense, we shouldn’t be objecting to it. If any private school teacher was posting that sort of photo on the Internet, s/he’d be faced with a choice between his/her Internet postings or job (and would never have gotten hired in the first place, if the photos had already been posted at the time of the job application). In all likelihood, the postings are just a particularly tangible piece of evidence of her immaturity and poor judgement that manifest themselves in many other ways, both in and out of the classroom.
I totally disagree. The nature of that picture says nothing about her qualifications to teach or her practice of safety in any endeavor. You are hypersensitive and judgemental, and not gifted with the spirit of freedom.
I will always judge people by their ACTS, not their art. If I judged people by art, I'd put all Picasso lovers in mental institutions.