Posted on 01/09/2013 12:45:05 PM PST by rottndog
A high school teacher in South Carolina is under investigation and has been placed on long-term administrative leave after he allegedly threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students.
Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C., reprised the unpatriotic deed in three classes over the course of one day, reports local NBC affiliate WIS.
One parent, Michael Copeland, said he heard his teenage daughter discussing the incident and asked her to tell him the whole story.
“He drew a couple of symbols, like one of them was a cross, and he said, ‘What does this represent,’ and everybody said, ‘Christianity,’” Copeland explained to WIS.
“Then he proceeds to take down the American flag, and said, ‘This is a symbol, but it’s only a piece of cloth. It doesn’t mean anything,’ and then he throws it down on the floor and then stomps on it, repeatedly,” Copeland continued.
“I asked what was he trying to get, the point across? And she said, ‘I don’t know,’ and he said, his explanation was there would be no consequences, it’s just a piece of cloth that doesn’t mean anything.”
Perhaps ironically, however, Compton would soon face consequences.
Mark Bounds, a spokesperson for the school district, told WIS that the district frequently cautions teachers to avoid introducing personal opinions in the classroom.
“Our superintendent served in the military, I served in the military for 20 years, our flag is a symbol of our freedom, and so many people have fought and died for that liberty, and so we take this action very seriously,” Bounds added.
According to FITSNews, a South Carolina-based conservative news and entertain website, people in the Chapin High community describe Compton a “good teacher” who is “very liberal” and “wears it on his sleeve in the classroom.”
A substitute teacher will fill in for Compton for the remainder of the school year, according to WIS.
We took over local school boards across the Nation quietly in the past and the Leftists were not ready. So that is why I suggested they do it quietly.
Run on whatever appeals to parents, get in and then ream the leftists into orbit. “We are changing the focus to academic performace and moral independence.” We had an agenda that was politically stated in an acceptable way - a total change of direction, before we went in and popped it on them.
Be a wise cabal....like your enemy only for good instead of evil. It takes the lefties at least two years to figure out who you are and that you are setting out to retire them.
He probably would come up “rejected.” He’s probably a wife beater.
The leftists in academia are unhinged and can't control their insane outbursts. I graduated from a fine and performing arts college with a B.A. in film & video, and for our commencement address I had to listen to some socialist blowhard give a rant against Creationism and the Iraq War. How this related to "arts" is beyond me.
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Oh Carolina.....
Nah, didn’t like the red, white and blue ‘cause he prefers orange.
Carolina Oh....
Outside if the obvious Mental Illness of the Teacher, AKA Liberal, what does teaching English have to do with the Crucifix or the American Flag?
Did this deluded Teacher think he was teaching Political Science at Harvard?
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