# Teacher Orders Kid to Lose Romney Shirt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-orders-kid-to-lose-romney-shirt/636714 "2012-10-04T17:04:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-orders-kid-to-lose-romney-shirt/636714/101 "2012-10-11T00:42:05Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > The idiot gallery is everyone who smarmily hinted or outright said that this was somehow a “gotcha” thread, as though “gotcha” was some sort of generic insult with a highly flexible meaning, if an individual does not know if he did that or not, how likely is it that my further commentary will be helpful? Well, we’d unequivocally know who was on the list and who wasn’t. That answer is still way better than a bible verse. You have my sympathies for your problems with persons thinking the worst of your motivations. (And if it wasn’t obvious, my original response was half tongue in cheek. I don’t really think you’re keeping a list, even though that would make the real world a little more strange and wonderful. But I have no damn idea what that bible verse means. Historically, third hand translations of ancient poetry seem to be open to interpretation.) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-orders-kid-to-lose-romney-shirt/636714/102 "2012-10-16T22:02:20Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > ::sigh:: > > What I meant to say, of course, is that I was certain this teacher was a union member, saved from incompetence and dismissal by virtue of onerous union pressure. > > And a socialist. Of course. > > Happy now? > > Sheesh. There’s not one shred of anything I said in this thread that suggests I was saying anything other than what we do all the time in the Pit: be outraged, recreationally, at some idiot. I didn’t generalize this to all teachers, all liberals, or even all idiots. > > And look what the idiot gallery dredged up in a desperate effort to pretend I DID say such things. Liberal, union, socialist, it’s a trifecta! \ Meh. The teacher is a biased idiot. She should learn a thing or two about the reasonable expression of free speech and the freedom to support any candidate you want to - even if it’s the wrong one 😃 Schools and their teachers like to pay LIP SERVICE to rights and free speech but apparently they only support their OWN??? It seems to happens too often. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-orders-kid-to-lose-romney-shirt/636714/103 "2012-10-16T22:44:52Z")
I am not sure what political persuasion could be used to describe my leanings, but as a scientist and a rationalist, I feel completely comfortable saying that this is 1) a tempest in a teapot and 2) the teacher made a really dumb mistake. I’d be saying that regardless of which party’s political statement was denigrated by the teacher. But, as has been said earlier (most hilariously by **Vinyl Turnip** ) many of us have been talked down to by teachers for no good reason. Teaching is a hard career, especially today and while I am not trying to excuse this teacher’s actions, pillorying her for this seems a little excessive to me. But, I was bullied by teachers as a student, so perhaps I have a different perspective than most. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-orders-kid-to-lose-romney-shirt/636714.md?page=5)