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Posted on 03/30/2013 10:06:04 AM PDT by Dallas59
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t spit into the wind. You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger. And, as two educators have recently learned, it’s also generally good advice to avoid stomping on Jesus and the American flag in public schools.
The Florida Atlantic University instructor who asked students to step on the word “Jesus” has been placed on administrative leave on the same day that the high school teacher in South Carolina who stomped on an American flag in front of his students way back in December finally resigned.
The incident in South Carolina first flared up when Scott Compton, an honors English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C., was placed on long-term administrative leave after he threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students.
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Good...Deny them any pension, too.
Administrative leave is BS. I hope that kid in Florida is suing all involved after they tried to bully him.
Good!
Our political reps won’t say **** but we have spoken!!
IIRC, FAU filed academic charges against the student. The whole thing might have died down if not for that.
I’d say that the Administrators are the weapons-grade idiots who need to be fired.
1) They hired and approved the course curriculum in the first place.
2) Then they suspended the MORMON student who refused
On a side note ... I thought Mormons were a cult and were all evil? This was a pretty simple litmus test, wasn’t it? This was the ONLY Christian in the class with the faith to stand up for what he believed in. Not a single Baptist, not a single Catholic, not a single Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian - NO ONE ELSE had the guts to stand up for their beliefs.
So, go ahead - flame away at the Mormons - we have a faith and we stand for what we believe in. We don’t need a crowd to find courage, or an opinion poll to tell us what is right.
These clowns are not teachers. They are government indoctrinators. They don’t teach students how to think, they teach them what to think. That’s bull****! That is an indoctrination not an education.
“Compton allegedly repeated the unpatriotic deed three times in one day. His goal, apparently, was to teach students that the flag is merely a symbolic piece of cloth.”
#1 That is an opinion, not a fact.
#2 If that view were to be presented, it could be accomplished without actually defiling a flag or anything else as blatantly provocative and insulting to dissenting views. As in, he could have just said to the class: “some people disagree with the idea of the flag as sacred, and view the flag only as a symbolic piece of cloth” and then moved on to the next subject at hand.
Of course, I’m assuming the teacher is interesting in actually teaching, and not indoctrinating the students with his personal views. Which is probably a bad bet to make.
That’s what I mean, the whole system is corrupt. These teachers were fired because they got caught.
Trying to lift oneself up by tearing others down? Can you say with any certainty that there actually were Christian students of any denomination present in that classroom? This was a university campus, after all.
Good on him for speaking out, though, it needed doing whether I agree with Mormonism or not.
Officially? What’s happening in reality? (which school districts are in a bidding war for the SC teacher?)
The intellectual level of these exercises is high above my head. What do they mean? If the Mormon student (bless him!) who refused, had written on that piece of paper “Beyonce” and stomped on it, would he have been suspended for cheating?
If the “professor” had asked the students to write on it “Burt Reynolds” would that have been OK to the intellects in judgment of this exercise?
Who and why hands doctorates to such intellectual heavyweights? OH, I know, it’s part of reparations, like Obamafoams and foostams and Whoopie’s entire career, part of paying off this group, hoping it’ll stop murdering one another and others, which (the bribery) the country has been doing since LBJ with little result.
And while you are reading this rant, I’ve written the word “broccoli” on an A4 sheet of paper and are stomping on it. Call the cops, quick!
30 students in south Florida? What are the odds that the Mormon was the ONLY Christian in the room?
“I’ve never seen anything like it on campus, the vitriol that has been released on this guy,”
“As a result of the reaction to a recent exercise in Dr. Poole’s intercultural communications class, the instructor’s personal safety has been compromised,”
It sounds like they are just whining about the poor wittle instructor in Florida.
Bingo! You nailed it!
I did read somewhere that others refused to stomp in it but this student complained to others.
Lucky for him he’s only on admin leave. He could be on life support.
When the democrats decided to remove God or any reference to Our Creator at their 2012 convention. They also demonstrated they are no longer the democratic party of your father’s father. They have become a hyphenated radical unit and should be known as Demo-Coms dedicated to the establishment of a collective idealism using the device of PCP to modify behavior and shed beliefs that they believe would impede remaking their concept of the perfect utopian state. That is hardly democratic because the word democrat idealizes the individual voice.
But Rove, GOPES (GOP Elite Snobs) and RINOS lack the capacity or the understanding or the courage to point to the historic radicalization that occured at that moment and use it politically. Worse yet they are unable to forthrightly defend what the demo-coms have set out to destroy and some are even comming up with their own version of PCP politically correct politics .
Anyone preaching PCP is going down the poisonous road to oblivion . Following a policy of PCP. Politically Correct Politics which the hyphenated democrat party, the Demo-Coms,is using is flat out wrong.Worse yet moral questions such as marriage, sexual practices, family constituency and particularly beliefs those of containing Judeo Christian tenets are being assulted and not defended. That offers a majority of voters no choice in the direction this country is to take.
PCP when used by the Demo-Coms such terms as: Afro-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, White-American, Rich-American ,Gay-American, are more than simply nouns but vehicles used to separate US from each other. Beside separating US from our money the Demo-Coms demand we become adhearents to a system without the constituional constraints on government. Thus surrendering our protections from governmental abuses and excessive bureacracy to the will of a bureaucratic collective which is no longer answerable to the average citizen.
Sadly for the Republicans God remains in Limbo
For more on why we lost checkout http://www.theusmat.com/
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