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| Fort Bragg vicinity teacher suspended for stomping on American flag | |
| 2016-09-21 | |
[CBS] FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- A North Carolina high school teacher says he has been placed on leave after students say he stepped on an American flag as part of a history lesson.
Francis said he’s scheduled to meet with system officials on Thursday to discuss the incident stemming from a lesson in his history class. News media outlets quote students as saying Francis asked students for a lighter or scissors, and when no one produced them, he put the flag on the floor and stomped on it. Reports quote Francis as saying on his Facebook page that he was discussing a court case involving flag desecration. | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Sentence him to burn a Gay Pride flag. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-09-21 16:25 |
| #10 How about reverse experiment: let a teacher use N-word in classroom for illustration purposes? How about a S-word applied to candidate Clinton? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-21 14:21 |
| #9 Just trying to indoctrinate the kids properly. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-09-21 12:53 |
| #8 Probably not a prudent thing for this bonehead to do around the Ft. Bragg area. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-09-21 10:56 |
| #7 I discovered Mr. Francis was disappointed not long ago in his primary run in a local Democratic race. Flag stomper loses Democratic primary race? That is a curious anomaly. Little wonder he was butt hurt. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-21 10:13 |
| #6 If anything constitutes hate speech it's flag desecration. Doubly so if it's within sight of a veteran. |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2016-09-21 10:11 |
| #5 "It means I step on a piece of fabric." An interesting situation. Following links from here to the local newspaper report CBS drew from, I discovered Mr. Francis was disappointed not long ago in his primary run in a local Democratic race. And not only does Massey Hill Classic draw from the Ft. Bragg area, meaning lots of military families, but it is a college prep magnet school. From the school's website: Though there is a great deal to learn about MHCHS, four characteristics make the school truly unique. First, at MHCHS all students adhere to a college/university preparatory curriculum. Students are encouraged to take a rigorous academic course load including additional required courses in foreign language, math, and science. In addition students experience electives in the arts and participate in Socratic seminar. Students are challenged to apply Habits of Mind that create critical and analytical thinking skills. MHCHS students’ end-of-course test scores and SAT scores are consistently among the best in the county. The students are displaying the higher level thinking -- understanding that objects have symbolic as well as absolute value -- that such a program hopes to instill. The teacher, carefully limiting his awareness to the physical object, has demonstrated he is not suitable to engage in the level of instruction these students require. Also, as DarthVader says, that he is a dickhead. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-09-21 10:08 |
| #4 “Just because I step on the flag doesn’t mean I step on their graves,” Francis told WNCN. “It doesn’t mean I step on their bodies as they return from overseas. It means I step on a piece of fabric.” It is symbolic of those graves. Just ask the soldiers up the road at Ft. Bragg how they feel about you being a dickhead. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-09-21 09:45 |
| #3 Reports quote Francis as saying on his Facebook page that he was discussing a court case involving flag desecration. There is a difference between theoretical and hands-on demonstrations. Be careful where you want to take that. If cops have body cams, maybe its past time for classroom cams to cover both teachers and students. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-09-21 09:33 |
| #2 Suspended from the now bare pole, I was hoping. |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-09-21 09:27 |
| #1 Wants to be the next Scopes. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2016-09-21 09:10 |