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Jay McDowell, a high school teacher in Michigan, was recently suspended (without pay) for dismissing a disruptive, anti-gay bigot from his class. The student was upset that he and other students were not allowed to display the confederate flag in class but that students were allowed to wear the color purple in support of the anti-gay bullying movement. During the argument, the disruptive student also spouted of about his anti-gay beliefs.
The reprimand informed McDowell that neither wearing the confederate flag nor spreading an anti-gay message in class constitutes a substantial disruption to the educational process and that therefore by suppressing both he had violated the student's rights.
McDowell responded to the reprimand first by pointing out that the school has a policy of not allowing confederate flags to be displayed in any car on school property, and then by saying "I believe any symbol or speech that can cause a student to sit in fear in the classroom whether or not there is an outward show of that fear is by its very nature a disruption to the educational process."
Here's one of his gay students defending him at a school board meeting as well as discussing how anti-gay bullying led him to attempt suicide at age 9:
So, do you agree with the teacher or the school board? Should students be allowed to wear what many people regard as hate symbols and be given a pulpit to express their bigoted beliefs (whether they be anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-Christian, ant-black, anti-white, etc), or does such freedom create a disruptive atmosphere of fear and bullying inappropriate for a school?
So, anybody who doesn't agree with an others lifestyle is a "bigot"
Just a quick history lesson...... During the NYC draft riots the confederate flag was displayed by the rioters who openly resented the Union war effort. Also, yes Michigan is not part of the Confederacy but a great many people who live there are the grandchildren of southern people who moved up there for auto jobs. There is a significant southern connection in the areas of the industrialized Midwest, especially near auto plants. It is not surprising to see the flag there.
People have the right to display that flag. To some it is about Southern heritage, to others about a modern political statement in opposition to large federal government. Very few people who support the flag are the racists you think they are. What many of them are however is defiant toward the political correctness that has swept the land. The more people tell them it cannot be displayed the more you will see them display it. I don't know why leftist don't get it, political correctness is breeding hatred and defiance and it will never stop people from expressing themselves.
Why are you digging up a Six Year Old thread to respond to? The last response in this thread before yours was in 2010. In 2010, my youngest was still in high school. The housing crisis wasn't over yet. Obama hadn't been re-elected. Trump was still a reality tv show guy... Why do a search for trouble, when that particular trouble has mostly settled down?
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