[BCW]

pretty bold of the teacher in the first place...I wonder what led him to believe he could such a thing to a student...???

[Tax-chick]

McDowell initiated a discussion about homosexuality when, after telling a female student he was offended by her confederate flag belt buckle and ordering her to remove it, he went on to explain the purple “Tyler’s army” shirt he was wearing was meant to promote tolerance of homosexuality.

The court heard that the teacher specifically asked Daniel about his feelings on homosexuals. When the boy responded that as a Catholic he was offended by the gay and lesbian lifestyle, Daniel was ordered to leave the classroom under threat of suspension.

In other words, the teacher deliberately provoked a confrontation, utterly unrelated to any legitimate pedagogical goal, and then threw the student out when his beliefs were unacceptable.

Nothing will happen to the "teacher," of course, but at least the boy realizes what life is like, now.

[kabumpo]

The same psychotic arrogance that many years ago caused a teacher to tmsend another student and me to the principal’s office to be reprimanded (and threatened with suspension) for disagreeing with him about the merits of a poem that was being discussed in class.