I'll command my troops on the Austin, Texas front. I'll march up from Houston to take all the liberals and establish working factories for munitions.
Posted on 05/12/2010 11:49:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A week after a school Morgan Hill made national news for sending five students home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, a school in Monterey County finds itself in the flag spotlight.
This one involves an art project. A Salinas middle school student said her teacher stopped her from drawing the American flag, while another student's picture of President Obama was praised.
Tracy Hathaway said the art teacher at Gavilan View Middle School told her daughter she couldn't draw the American flag because it was offensive.
Hathaway said they were shocked when they heard what happened. They have met with the teacher and principal at Gavilan View Middle School, but were not satisfied with outcome of that meeting. When the parents asked the teacher what she thought was offensive about drawing, the teacher didn't answer them, Hathaway said.
The Hathaways now want a "real" apology.
"My daughter wasn’t trying to break any rules and she wasn’t trying to create a scene," Hathaway told Fox radio. "She was just expressing her view and saying this is America and I want God to bless it."
The Hathaways said the issue isn't about race, adding that the teacher is white.
Racism crept into the discussion following the Fox report. The school says it has received more than 200 e-mails and phone messages in recent days, most of them containing hateful and racist comments. "(Messages say) that we have violated that student's First Amendment rights and the so-called teacher needs to 'get the hell out of my country,'" said District Superintendent Mike Brusa.
Brusa said another meeting is planned for later his week between the teacher, parents and Hathaway, and that an apology may be in order.
Although Brusa wouldn't discuss whether any disciplinary action has been taken, or will be, the teacher involved wasn't on campus Monday.
The incident actually happened several weeks ago, but KSBW television covered the story Monday night. At the time of the Fox report, School District Superintendent Mike Brusa sent Fox the following statement:
When we were aware there may be additional concerns, I asked the administration to contact parents again to see if there is any expectations from prior contact that have not been met. The Principal did so, and indicated the parents were satisfied that the situation had been handled. They told the Principal they had twittered Fox and had indicated that the situation had been handled. Secondly, there are 3,000 students in the district, 250 employees, and parents that go with the students. Every day there are many interactions that occur between all these individuals. As I indicated, this event occurred several weeks ago, and in that time there would be literally thousands of events large and small between the people involved with the school. This was one small event that did not even come to the level of my office. There is an informal and formal process that is used to resolve issues. The school administration and the parents did not view this as significant enough to bring it to the Superintendent’s office. Thank you for allowing me to clarify this situation.
Other than that, just tell me who he is and I'll write him in ;-)
Glad to see that you support liberty so much.
I thought the court ruled the cross could remain and it was stolen- is that not what happened?
Tracy Hathaway said the art teacher at Gavilan View Middle School told her daughter she couldn’t draw the American flag because it was offensive.
Soutwest Airlines has low fares. The teacher (and I use that term loosely) is free to leave the Country.
if we get the good sensible people out then we can fit in more stupid people. win/win! yay!
Okay I see the problem right away. It has God on it instead of MOOHAMID.. How dare that infidel.....
What is proposed as liberty by separating is in fact sedition. I do not support law breakers. Especially conservator-than-thou law breakers.
Correct number of Star and Stripes, too. What’s not to love?
Oh, I fully understand what you’re saying.
Better to kill people than let them be outside of your control.
Yep... Got that big “O” sticker on your car?
Great picture, teacher needs to be fired.
>>THe young lady who drew it should copyright it and sell images of it on a T-shirt.<<
I’m sure there are a few containers full of them steaming their way over here from China.......
Yep. Conservator-than-thou types exactly like you.
Basically you're correct. The country cannot remain divided like this for much longer and hold together. I've said in the past the situation in America is approaching explosive conditions. It's only the civility that remains in the conservative majority of America that is keeping a lid on the situation. But the depredations of communist Democrat Party/Left is quickly using up that reserve of civility. I think the approaching economic collapse that many people think will occur will be the tipping point. Or maybe another muslim terror attack on the scale of 9/11 (that Obama allows to happen) will do it.
Can someone pull the chain a flush calif. down the toilet with the rest of the sh*t.
My analogy is that we as conservatives, being “live and let live” types, and not preferring to subjugate rather than allow freedom, like the other poster on here,
have taken step after step backwards in order to “preserve civility” while the left steps over line after line after line taking away our freedoms using the force of the state.
We’ve just noticed that our next step backwards is off a cliff, and there is nowhere to go in the name of “civility”.
I am thinking the fact that the populace has slept for so long that the progressives have already tied our hands with many convoluted statutes, policies and brainwashed several generations of people into welfare mentality.
Gulliver managed to escape when he awoke; I only hope we can, too.
vaudine
Kind of funny, once, Waaaaaaaaaaaay back when, there were a bunch of colonies, and they did some sort of separation thingy too.
I'll command my troops on the Austin, Texas front. I'll march up from Houston to take all the liberals and establish working factories for munitions.
And, by God, he’d have baked cookies to prevent that kind of “sedition” from the rightful King of England, too.
“all their bases of power dismantled,”
“All your base are belong to us!”
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