Well. I can’t say for sure the teacher in this story is a liberal, but I’ll take a guess that this guy probably didn’t vote for Dubya. Just a guess.
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.
Whether it is “legal” or not, one has to really wonder if there may have been a more appropriate way to instruct a bunch of 10 and 11 year olds on the 1st Amendment. Perhaps the “teacher” Dan Holden could have reviewed what Fisher Ames (of Massachusetts) who provided the wording of the First Amendment which was passed by the House of Representatives. If anyone should be considered an “authority” regarding the 1st Amendment it should be Fisher Ames. He never used the term “separation of church and state” in any of his writings or public speeches. He did advocate that the Bible should be the primary textbook in America’s classrooms:
” Whyâ?¦should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the sacred book that is thus early impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”
The ACLU supports Mr. Holden’s “right” to burn American flags to “teach” his students about the 1st Amendment because it is “free speech.” Can you imagine how fast they would be filing a law suit against him if, instead of buring flags, Mr Holden had shared the very words the actual author of the 1st Amendment used above.
Is it any wonder that our govt run school system has been such an abysmal failure since God was removed from the classroom in 1961 as a result of the landmark ruling in Engel v Vitale? Is it any wonder that parents can’t yank their kids out of the public schools fast enough?