Reason Number 4,356,257 to Find Out about your Child’s Teachers
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006The liberals in the education system are not waiting long to get started with the political indoctrination this year:
A Stuart Middle School teacher has been removed from the classroom after he burned two American flags in class during a lesson on freedom of speech, Jefferson County Public Schools officials said.
Dan Holden, who teaches seventh-grade social studies, burned small flags in two different classes Friday and asked students to write an opinion paper about it, district spokeswoman Lauren Roberts said.
A teacher in the school district since 1979, Holden has been temporarily reassigned to non-instructional duties pending a district investigation. The district also alerted city fire officials, who are conducting their own investigation.
“Certainly we’re concerned about the safety aspect,” Roberts said, along with “the judgment of using that type of demonstration in a class.”
They just get bolder and bolder every year. In an era where students who wear a t-shirt with a pro-American picture or slogan on it are routinely sent home to change, this had to be the next logical step. I can’t wait for the teachers to start bringing their bongs to class to show the students how to “relax.”
The good news is that many parents didn’t put up with this nonsense:
Pat Summers, whose daughter was in Holden’s class, said he was among more than 20 parents upset about the incident at school yesterday. Holden apparently told the students to ask their parents what they thought about the lesson, he said.
“She said, ‘Our teacher burned a flag.’ I’m like, ‘What?’ ” Summers said. “When I was (at the school) at 8 a.m., the lobby was filled with probably 25 or 30 parents” who were upset, he said.
Thank God these parents were paying attention. Of course, the local ACLU is on the case to protect the teacher:
Beth Wilson, director of Kentucky’s ACLU, said the district is allowed to decide what’s instructionally appropriate.
But “if a school is masking their objections to flag burning under the guise of safety, it raises questions about freedom of speech and academic freedom,” she said. She said her group would monitor the case but did not plan to get involved at this point.
Let’s hope they have the good sense to stay out of this, but I don’t think they will.
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