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High school teacher 'refused to mark students' assignments because they mentioned guns (Texas)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | february 21, 2013

Posted on 02/21/2013 9:42:57 PM PST by lowbridge

A high school English teacher has refused to grade two students' papers because they mentioned guns.

Marshall Williams and Alex Wright, seniors at Denton High School in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, said the teacher, Dewey Christian, set an assignment to write a report about anything they wanted.

Williams referenced a trip he had taken to the Fort Worth gun show, while Wright recounted a hunting trip, but both said the papers did not describe shooting guns.

'I said, "Me and my mum went to buy a gun" and as soon as he heard the word gun he told me to sit down,' Wright told My Fox Dallas-Fort Worth.

Both boys were told they would get a zero on the assignment because of the topic and were reprimanded in front of their peers, the news channel reported. k

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; gunhysteria; guns; libidiot; schoolgunhysteria; secondamendment; texas; yetanotherlibidiot; zerotolerance
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To: Timber Rattler
Give me a break...the teacher's not sorry for anything.

The Obamabot commie punk is sorry he didn't get away with indoctrinating the student into his 'gun control' agenda. Fire the SOB.

21 posted on 02/22/2013 3:58:04 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

I not only would stop reading. I’d immediately grade it an F after the words “me and my mum.” To finish reading it would only give me headache and I’d end up giving him(?) an FF-.


22 posted on 02/22/2013 4:21:43 AM PST by Kanzan
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To: Fiji Hill

Teacher has been contacted...


23 posted on 02/22/2013 4:43:37 AM PST by CenTex (November 6, 2012... A day that will live in infamy!!!)
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To: lowbridge

I have heard it said repeatedly that all the large cities of Texas, Austin especially but also Dallas, Houston, El Paso and others, are actually hotbeds of Socialism, Communism, Worker’s Union and Teacher’s Union thuggery just like New York and all the cities on California’s coast. The only reason Texas doesn’t go blue liek New York or California is because Texas’s massive size means that there are enough rural areas with actual American ideals of self reliance and limited gov’t which cancel out the leftist votes from the cities. That is why even in Texas it’s hard to get too shocked over what public schools do in the large cities.


25 posted on 02/22/2013 4:56:19 AM PST by pythonjavaawk
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To: lowbridge
Would this teacher have objected if they had said “arms” - a word used in the Constitution - instead of “guns?” Maybe they should rewrite and resubmit with that change . . .

26 posted on 02/22/2013 5:26:41 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: expat1000

BFL, that ought to be interesting to watch.


27 posted on 02/22/2013 8:19:42 AM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: lowbridge

Oregon trained Methodist, teaching in a University town.


28 posted on 02/22/2013 9:24:58 AM PST by PAR35
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To: lowbridge
oh, the word, the word! must not say the word! It bites us, it stings us...


29 posted on 02/22/2013 1:28:59 PM PST by cyn (Benghazi...the travesty continues.)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan; lowbridge
Also, "me" is objective case. "Me" can never be used as the subject of a sentence -- except as in this example which is a discussion of the word, "Me", itself.

"I" is subjective case, and, in this sentence, "I" is the only correct co-subject with "Mum" (or however a Texas kid would refer to his maternal parent).

But, yes, it is good usage and good manners to put the other co-subject (or co-object) first...

Had I been the teacher, I would have stopped the kid and given him an "F" the moment he began his sentence with "Me". And, in an English class, that action would have been perfectly defensible.

OTOH, the teacher's objection to the mere mention of a firearm is totally indefensible, since he assigned the students to select their own topic.

Fire the PC libtard teacher for not teaching English -- and expel him from Texas for being un-American!


30 posted on 02/23/2013 9:35:44 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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