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Fayetteville teacher suspended for flag lesson on 1st amendment (NC)
WRAL ^ | 9/20/2016 | Kathryn Brown

Posted on 09/21/2016 8:20:40 AM PDT by RightGeek

Fayetteville, N.C. — A Cumberland County high school teacher has been suspended after he stepped on an American flag as part of a history lesson on Monday.

A photo posted on Facebook shows Lee Francis, a history teacher at Massey Hill Classical High School in Fayetteville, standing over an American flag at the front of the class.

Students said Francis tried to burn and cut the flag before dropping it on the floor as part of a lesson on the First Amendment. At least two students walked out of the classroom during the demonstration. 7

"I put the flag on the ground and I took two steps with my right foot and I said, 'This is an example of free speech,'" Francis said. "Two students got up and left immediately with no word, no disruption at all...I assumed something had happened. One student came to where I was and took the flag from me."

Francis has been suspended with pay in connection with the incident until he meets with Superintendent Dr. Frank Till on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; fayetteville; publiceducation; usflag
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More at the link - the guy is an idiot. Also, Fayetteville is the home of Fort Bragg.
1 posted on 09/21/2016 8:20:40 AM PDT by RightGeek
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To: RightGeek

Suspended? That’s a good start. This idiot should be banned from the classroom!!


2 posted on 09/21/2016 8:21:57 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: RightGeek

Schmuck failed to realize his First Amendment is for HIS time. On OUR time WE have a say.


3 posted on 09/21/2016 8:23:44 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: RightGeek

The teacher is not just stupid. But hateful and arrogant. It takes all three to do what he did. Being stupid is not someone’s fault. Being arrogant an hateful when your stupid is a choice though. And it’s a very bad choice.


4 posted on 09/21/2016 8:25:16 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Hating Islam is the natural consequence of caring about people in the Middle East, including Muslims)
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To: AndyTheBear; NFHale; Liz; left that other site; bevperl; vette6387; mazda77

The Deplorables in this town need to demand the school board send this dirt bag packing; just my opinion.


5 posted on 09/21/2016 8:30:56 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: AndyTheBear

This is the kind of idiot where you go to court to seek a restraining order to keep YOUR child far away from him.
And he pulls this crap at BRAGG?


6 posted on 09/21/2016 8:31:38 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (New York Times: "We print the news as it fits our views.")
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To: RightGeek
"...One student came to where I was and took the flag from me."

Outstanding. Some responsible student came and took the flag away from the filthy POS. Give that kid a scholarship.

7 posted on 09/21/2016 8:32:16 AM PDT by GregoTX
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To: RightGeek

If he doesn’t like the Stars and Stripes,
he should come and see my Stars and Bars.


8 posted on 09/21/2016 8:33:02 AM PDT by sparklite2 (The game overs whether you play it or not.)
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To: RightGeek

I’ll get hammered here, but I think it’s a hell of a lesson.
Do I like it ? No !
Would I have done something about it if I was there ? Probably.

In fact, I used the same kind of example in an email to the Super regarding this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3471804/posts


9 posted on 09/21/2016 8:33:17 AM PDT by stylin19a
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“...teacher has been suspended after he stepped on an American flag as part of a history lesson on Monday”........

He needs a lesson taught by a few marines and he may just (if he survives) change his rhetoric. If nothing else, the beating would certainly be one for the history books.


10 posted on 09/21/2016 8:33:32 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: RightGeek

Good thing they didn’t have him teaching sex ed.


11 posted on 09/21/2016 8:33:43 AM PDT by Kevin C
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I believe this is the pinko-commie ...
12 posted on 09/21/2016 8:37:50 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: RightGeek

No, it’s not an example of free speech. There is no free speech in the USA. Innocent people lose their jobs over words that they spoke that someone claimed were offensive.
Try stomping on an ISIS flag in an American college and see if that’s free speech.


13 posted on 09/21/2016 8:40:17 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: RightGeek

This is one story that renews my faith is some of our young people. Seems there were at least 3 students who were more intelligent than their teacher.


14 posted on 09/21/2016 8:44:29 AM PDT by Wneighbor (I'm deplorable.)
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To: RightGeek

Good on those kids.

Still not sure if we should be punishing severely those who do this (depending), but OTOH, schools and others should have the right to do what they damn well want.

“I took two steps with my right foot”

He was hopscotching?


15 posted on 09/21/2016 8:45:33 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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There was no other way to demonstrate “free speech”?? Like, maybe raising the flag high, maybe, just maybe? Geesh!


16 posted on 09/21/2016 8:45:50 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (We have to stop saying "How stupid can you get". Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.)
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To: RightGeek

“Also, Fayetteville is the home of Fort Bragg.”

Just sayin’...?


17 posted on 09/21/2016 8:47:09 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: RightGeek
Go figure ...
18 posted on 09/21/2016 8:47:30 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: stylin19a

“I’ll get hammered here, but I think it’s a hell of a lesson.
Do I like it ? No !”

How is it a hell of a lesson? Do you think we need to see a murder to understand its illegality?


19 posted on 09/21/2016 8:48:24 AM PDT by odawg
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To: wastoute

OUR time, OUR money (for the schools), OUR kids, and OUR buildings for education NOT liberal indoctrination!


20 posted on 09/21/2016 8:54:50 AM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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