But my main point is that YOU are guilty of a rush to judgment
You are too. The school puts out a flag every morning and says the Pledge. That is more proof than what you have.
As a kid, I never thought twice about patriotism, in or out of the class.
The question is, why have you gotten to this stage, where this is debated as “bad kid”?
Back in the day, more conservative teachers would have smiled, if it wasn’t too disruptive, meaning, patience.
Your defending where we have fallen to, not what it should be.
That's proves absolutely nothing about what happened in one classroom involving a teacher and a student. Wonder Warthog is 100% correct. You jumped to conclusions the information presented cannot possibly support.
It's the student and parent's story as opposed to the school officials' story.
I'm not taking ANY position. My first post pointed out a possibility that you, in a kneejerk response, obviously didn't consider.
And what the SCHOOL does is irrelevant to what the TEACHER does. I thought I had made that distinction clear. You have no more "proof" than I do, based on the article.