Posted on 09/14/2011 3:46:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A banner does not establish a religion. Geez...don't judges know how to read??
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Wonder if he had only had one small banner up if anyone would have objected..........
Even to me, this seems a bit of an overkill for a public school.
I love Newt’s idea. If we win a majority in House and Sernate and get the presidency back, just vote to eliminate the 9th Circuit, or just abolish the offices of the judges.
There is always one in the crowd. Even if he just had a plaques on his desk with the words, there would be some crankly parent to object.
“And then they pay them with dollar bills that say....”In God We Trust”. “
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Marxist have to deny God.
It is part of their playbook.
9th circuit is filled with lib-tards, and often have off the wall decisions.
Yes, because we have a, “living, breathing Constitution.” Newt, the space cadet cryptolefty.
Soon to be reversed, as usual.
What is this country without God? A heathen wilderness!!
Another reason for the seperation of school and state.
Oddly enough, from a purely teaching point of view, I have to agree with the 9th Circuit on this. This is based on the four classical rules of teaching, otherwise known as “What gets teachers fired.”
1) Teachers are hired to teach a subject, not soapbox. The easiest way for a teacher to be fired is to bring politics, religion, or any other, unrelated subject into their classroom. There are many, many otherwise fine people who are fired as teachers because they do not have the self discipline to abide by this rule. They simply cannot control themselves.
2) Teachers that go out of their way to get into fights, offend or embarrass their students, their students’ parents, their teacher peers, their department chairman, the administration, and the community, get fired.
3) Teachers who make a spectacle of themselves or their students, usually involving the police, protests, the local news, or worst of all, with lawsuits and litigious lawyers.
4) Teachers who cannot keep what dwells within the pants, within the pants.
While this teacher was crafty in using legally recognized statements of faith in his banner, he was hired to teach calculus. Now, in his capacity as the faculty sponsor of the Christian club, he could, without any heartburn from the administration, have put up his banner in the room used by the Christian club, during its meetings. Then he could have taken it down after those meetings were over.
But he wanted a fight. So as far as this goes, he has violated rules number 1, 2, and 3. Yet though typically he should be fired for this, if he does not continue to cost the school district money they could use to educate students, in a spirit of charity, they might let him keep his job until he retires.
Otherwise, if he persists, he should be fired. And it should not matter one whit that he is a Christian. He could as just as well be a communist, a Muslim, a liberal Democrat, or for that matter, a Republican who could just not shut up and teach.
I would comply by replacing God with Who, as in Who shed his Grace on Thee?
When was the last time you were in a school? Teachers are rewarded on the basis of #1.
Good post - it explains it all. Thanks.
So where is Poway? UK, US, OZ?
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