There are over 3 million teachers in the U.S., and I’m only including K-12. Among that large number there are certain to be some idiots and other assorted numbskulls. For some reason whenever one is discovered, no matter where, the entire national media jumps on it.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Romney-High-School-T-Shirt-Flap-172627871.html
Watch the video. See the shirt.
I don’t regard this in any way as representative of liberals.
It seemed to me like typical Pit-worthy RO at a single foolish teacher. Why would it belong in the stupid liberals thread?
I love it when he bats the big, brown innocent eyes. “Who, me? Perish the thought!”
Because we’re already screwing with you about this topic in the other thread, so this thread is causing an unnecessary duplication of effort on our part. 
::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.
Well you do have a reputation.
And nothing keeps a reputation going like making shit up to be consistent with it, eh?
In your defense, I don’t think you have ever been found to actually make things up.
If I were a high school teacher who saw a “safe for work” level political statement on a kid’s tee shirt, I’d be thrilled. Most kids don’t give a damn these days.
Correct. I don’t.
But the responders in this thread cannot make the same claim, can they?
Could you be more specific about who’s in the idiot gallery? I want to know whether I should be offended by being included in it, or by being left out of it.
Getting back to the OP, the teacher was wrong. But how wrong is going to depend on the school’s policy.
Did the school have a policy prohibiting message shirts (as many do)? If so, then the teacher was correct in enforcing that policy. But the teacher was wrong in offering her political opinions in argument against the student’s. If political messages are prohibited, it goes both ways. And the teacher’s message was more offensive than the student’s.
And if the school doesn’t have any policy against message shirts, then the teacher can add making up her own rules to her other mistakes.
Nah. “The wcked flee where no man pursueth.”
As far as I know, schools in fact can NOT have a policy prohibiting shirts with political messages, under Tinker v. Des Moines. As long as it’s not obscene and it’s not likely to disrupt the classroom, the kids have an actual right to wear such shirts. So it makes the teacher’s actions doubly bad - illegally suppressing free speech and doing it on the fly with personal viewpoint discrimination!
This is funny.
So in addition to guns and religion, now we have to bitterly cling on to our T-shirts?
If only that teacher could be fired…
I’m having a real hard time telling if things are serious or not today… but in case you are, why do you think that the teacher can’t be fired? Tenure does not protect you from discharge for just cause.
Apparently some geometry teachers struggle with humor. It is a difficult concept.