“SCOTUS ruled in 1989 that flag burning is protected free speech.”
Burning a flag inside the classroom is NOT protected free speech. It is endangering students.
“Interesting conjectures you make, are they backed up in facts ?”
They are facts. Also, there is not a work environment in the country that will allow employees to engage in free speech as a representative of the company, which is what a teacher is.
“I’ll take the teacher at his word - that he was teaching.”
Teaching what? You mean it takes desecrating the symbol of the nation to have students understand free speech. Everyone understands free speech. As you noticed, flag desecration was not considered free speech until 1989. And, really, it is not free speech in that it has nothing to do with free speech. It is protest. And protesting is carefully regulated in this country.
“I’ll take a guess that the teacher will be exonerated.”
If the administration is gutless as normal, he probably will be.
again, you respond with your opinions, not facts.
The 1989 SCOTUS decision was about a “protest” burning of the flag - Texas v. Johnson.
The teacher was teaching about Texas v. Johnson
According to another source, the teacher didn’t try to burn or cut the flag in the classroom.
Here’s the story with more juice.
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