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ikki5 on 04 September 2014

Read the title and thought "Must be America". Then I look at the article and, "Yep, I was right". Gotta love that, 'Merica, land of the free!



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HylianSwordsman on 04 September 2014

Didn't anyone ever tell you freedom don't come free, little girl? You want to say something that someone else doesn't like and you're not in power, you've got to pay the price for it like everyone else.



LiquorandGunFun on 04 September 2014

political correctness running a muck again. but its ok to sing a ode to obama when he got elected.

disgusting. that bitch ass computer teacher needs to lose his/her job and never be able to pollute children again.



 

Arcturus on 04 September 2014
iamserious said:
Arcturus said:
spurgeonryan said:


Turner, is a newly enrolled senior at Dyer County High School and admits to breaking a classroom rule by saying "bless you", but she said that rule, violated her First Amendment rights.

"Bless you, hang out, my bad, dumb, stupid, stuff, and things like that," Turner said.

Those are the words Turner said are banned by her computer teacher at Dyer County High School.

"She told me that we're not going to have godly speaking in her class," Turner said. "I said, 'well my pastor told me it's my constitutional right.'"

While the rule is stupid, how was her first amendment right violated?

Freedon of speech. 

And how was that violated? See sundin13's response.



Hoodieninja on 04 September 2014
thranx said:
sundin13 said:
thranx said:
 

Its not a one time incident. It has happened enough for several students to talk to their youth pastor about it. And if the teacher did say she won't have Godly speaking in her class than it is oppression. The student responded to the teacher after being educated by her pastor abour her rights.

 

""She told me that we're not going to have godly speaking in her class," Turner said. "I said, 'well my pastor told me it's my constitutional right.'""

Its on a list of words and slang, so its not like only religious words were being targeted. The teacher wanted to set up a neutral environment in the classroom, and while I think it was a stupid rule and a dumb way of going about it, there is nothing overtly wrong with it.

As previously stated, she got suspended for disrupting class and being uppity, not for just saying "bless you".

Finally, as stated multiple times, the pastor is wrong...that isn't your constitutional right. Thats not how the bill of rights works...

sorry it is how it works. its public not private property. not allowing or punishing godly speak as she put it is a form of discrimination, i am not talking just about her rules on the board, if she actually said not allowing godly speak in her class that is very discriminatory. The student has every right to stand up for themselves when it's an ongoing issue. Hopefully the principal has decided to step in and talk to the teacher about this now.


Public property owned by the Government still has it's rules. Actually no, the teacher took the rule too far, but if anything If you're praying in the Middle of Class it can be Disruptive. Honestly the teacher could have had other issues with that Student. Who knows.

Students can do WHATEVER they want outside of Class. I don't agree with what the teacher did.

Religion should stay out of the Classroom, I don't blame the teacher also because Creation nonsense has plagued the Classroom spreading Ignorance.