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And you have no problem with leftist teachers indoctrinating students with communist ideologies and posting the photos of Cuban commie leaders while trashing the photo of the president? That's the issue, not the cop.

Its called straining at a gnat & swallowing a camel.

"And you have no problem with leftist teachers indoctrinating students with communist ideologies and posting the photos of Cuban commie leaders while trashing the photo of the president? That's the issue, not the cop."

Did I say that? I did not. As I understand it, these were student-done images, not done by the teacher. I disagree with them, but that does not make them a police matter. You seem to misunderstand some of the rights we have. Freedom of speech does not mean just speech you happen to agree with. If you don't protect freedoms for people with whom you disagree, you have no freedoms yourself.

Who's to say that the children did not come by these beliefs themselves? Who's to say they didn't? All you people are operating on is hearsay and assumptions based on the man's political views. Maybe an interview with the kids would shed more light as to whether this guy was unduly influencing them or not. Perhaps it is even good for them to come into contact with opposing view points. If the parents are that concerned they can talk with their kids and discuss what the teacher said or they could even talk to the teacher himself. I don't buy the knee-jerk assumption that a teacher would try to "get back" at the parents through their kids - it could happen, but that's assuming the worst, and that really bothers me. What bothers me about this is that it took place at night, undercover of darkness, and the cop's evidence is a two dimensional photo, when it could have been taken in broad daylight, during regular business hours, with a rational discussion being the basis of any changes made in terms of staff, curricula, teaching methods etc.