Compton resigned as part of the settlement after criticism about his actions last December.
Excerpt, read more at Washington Post
Posted on 05/11/2013 2:26:28 AM PDT by Daffynition
Edited on 05/11/2013 11:52:22 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
CHAPIN, S.C. — A South Carolina high school teacher removed from the classroom when he stomped on an American flag while discussing freedom is being paid $85,000 to avoid a legal challenge.
The State newspaper (http://bit.ly/13eJez6) obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act that show Chapin High School teacher Scott Compton is being paid the settlement by Lexington-Richland District 5, in addition to his salary through June 7.
Compton resigned as part of the settlement after criticism about his actions last December.
Excerpt, read more at Washington Post
I hope he gets mugged.
He should get a pink slip and some advice, “Don’t let the door kick you in the butt on the way out.”
Comrade, you are now in the USSA.
This shetass teacher will get a promotion, along with YOUR money.
Anyone that does not see America going down the tubes is blind.
This guy needs to be socially ostracized. Booed wherever he goes, shunned at all times.
And what would happen if he stomped on a Confederate Flag?
Hey, if nothing happens between now and October 31st, that might be a very good time to decorate his lawn, as kids used to do, no?
If you don’t remember what we kids -used- to do, I’m talking ‘60’s here, there were a few houses, and a few base housing units, that seemed to draw out all the love there was, from the kids, on that night.
I suggest, you surmise!
THAT would depend on who is standing in front of him when he does it.
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I love how freepers have not changed over the years, he resigned, which means he no longer works there.
Point two, while I would NEVER do such a thing it is free speech, and is therefore protected.
A 1st Amendment claim merely protects you from the government, not the people you pissed off when they decide to celebrate your win with a blanket party!
Shunning...I’m all for it.
Another scumbag liberal who needs to spend a few years in one of the many letist, anti-American Utopias - someplae like Mogadishu.
People in SC should vote out this school board, but they only support people there with name ID, which challengers often lack.
You’re exactly right.
Of course we honor the First Amendment. However, a couple weeks after this outrageous Commie act, you would find this guy and “sort things out”.
As the Presidential elction results of both 2008 and 2012 demonstrated, there more people now who hate America than people who love America here. And they vote. They chose,in my opinion, to put the individual[I do not refer to it as human or a man]who hate Amrica more than anyone else in the world in the White House. Not once but twice.
You are correct, but then assault is against the law.
“Point two, while I would NEVER do such a thing it is free speech, and is therefore protected.”
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I would not be so smug and sure:
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18 USC § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties
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Current through Pub. L. 112-283. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
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(1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.”
Probably not the sort of thing we want ~
As the Supreme Court told us, gub'mnt agents ~ and teachers are gub'mnt agents and cannot be viewed otherwise ~ have no free speech rights to be respected on the job!
The error was the lawyer for the school district forgot to cite all the USSC free speech cases involving SCHOOLS!
All is not lost. Just last night my son saw a flag in the middle of the street and swerved a little to avoid it. About a third of a mile down the road he found a place to park and walked back to get it (it was on a bridge). While I watched him get further away, an older truck did a u-turn and drove back up the bridge. As my son came back to the car without the flag, I asked if the guy in the truck picked it up. He said yes. So, 2 men out of how many went to retrieve it. My son is a Marine, and where we are (NC), I would be safe to assume the guy in the truck was too.
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