Is this the type of "teacher" a certain saloon professor would cheer?

[sirs]

It’s not always fun and easy being a young Republican, let alone an enthusiastic Mitt Romney supporter. Whoa:

The parents of the Charles Carroll High School student ridiculed and ordered by her teacher to remove a t-shirt supporting Mitt Romney sued the teacher and school district on Friday, claiming the act violated the girl's civil rights.

Filed in federal court in Philadelphia, the suit says the district ignored Samantha Pawlucy's right to free speech, let other students threaten and harass her and subjected her "to emotional distress, simply because she exercised her First Amendment rights."

Fernando Gallard, a spokesman for the district, said it would not comment on the lawsuit.

Pawlucy, a 16-year-old sophomore from Port Richmond, drew national headlines from the furor that erupted when she wore a pink "Romney-Ryan" shirt during a dress-down day at school in September.

According to the lawsuit, Pawlucy had worn the shirt all day when she walked into geometry teacher Lynette Gaymon's classroom.

The teacher allegedly told the teen that Charles Carroll was a "Democratic" school and that her shirt was akin to one spouting a logo for the Ku Klux Klan. She ordered Pawlucy to remove the shirt, then enlisted an aide who tried to draw an X through the candidates' name on the shirt.

Pawlucy's parents complained to school officials and the story went viral.

Gaymon later publicly apologized to the girl. But Pawlucy claims she endured ongoing harassment and threats and was unable to return to the school.

What kind of “educator” acts this way? Sure, teachers can certainly disagree with the political opinions of their students. But to publicly embarrass -- and ridicule -- a young girl for supporting a major party candidate for president is beyond comprehension. As I understand it, this geometry teacher doesn’t even attempt to engage her student in any type of meaningful discussion or dialogue. Instead, she reflexively resorts to fear tactics and intimidation. And while it’s difficult to imagine filing a full-blown lawsuit against my teacher if I found myself in a similar situation, I can fully understand why the student’s family believed this was necessary. The audaciousness of this “grown-up’s” behavior is simply astonishing.

Meanwhile, it’s comforting to know how taxpayer dollars are being spent these days: ridiculing young minds and bullying teenagers. Then again, I guess we really shouldn’t be surprised.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Not me.

I have had students wear shirts with obscene words on them, and never said a word.

[Plane]

This discussion doesn't need to be made personal.

Geometry?

The oddest part is that someone who actually "gets" math supports Democrats so passionately.

[BT]

This discussion doesn't need to be made personal.

Thank you Plane

[sirs]

...because of course, we can't be having anyone initiating name calling at other posters around here.  Oh, wait, that's ok, and gets nary a word of criticism, but a title that doesn't even do that is......frowned upon?   

[Plane]

...because of course, we can't be having anyone initiating name calling at other posters around here.  Oh, wait, that's ok, and gets nary a word of criticism, but a title that doesn't even do that is......frowned upon?   

If you do not bear this , you need not hear this.

I am sorry if you feel singled out , hurting you in particular would only be doing the same as I am asking not be done.

I should thank you Sirs for toleration, if you are willing.

[sirs]

I understand where you're coming from Plane.  I suppose its easier to be critical of events that don't happen that often, such as school shootings and sirs initiating something personal, vs those that happen all the time, such as car crashes and leftists engaging in personal attacks, right out of the chute.  It's like seeing words such as nazi & racist, completely lose all manner of substance, when it's erroneously used so often. 

I'll try to do better

[Plane]

If it were easy , it would not be exercise.

I am really glad that you understood , but it will remain difficult.

Do you know the method for ploughing a straight furrow?

[Christians4LessGvt]

comical

[Xavier_Onassis]

Neither party is any good at dealing with deficits. The reason lies with the voters and assholes like Norquist and the Kochs, not any lack of math skills.

[Plane]

Neither party is any good at dealing with deficits. The reason lies with the voters and assholes like Norquist and the Kochs, not any lack of math skills.

Alas , you are right about the fact that both partys are afflicted.

But I think that strong math abilitys would go a long way twards working resolution.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I don't think anyone lacks the ability to do math. The problem is everyone wants the government to help them, and no one thinks that they should pay for what anyone else wants. People in Florida see no reason to pay for earthquake disasters,and people in California don't want to pay for hurricane damage. People in Wyoming donlt want to pay for anything but blizzard damage.

[Plane]

We are doing terrible math.

How can so few realise that we are wasting the planet and spending up a debt that our progeny must deal with and wring a living from?

If this were a math quiz the Republicans might brag about a higher score than the Democrats , but it is a hollow boast if both are failing grades.

Ruining our grandchildren is failing , and that is the failure the political partys are driving.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I really like the selective view on this. Juniorbush got elected and Cheney said"deficits don't matter. Now, the President wants to spend money to keep the sick healthy, rather than military adventurism and suddenly it turns out that deficits DO matter.

[Plane]

Cheny said that?

Seems as if he was wrong.

If you gave a middle class guy a choice , lots of cheap improvement in his health with garunteed poverty and hardship for his grandchildren , or generally expensive health care that requires struggle to have enough , but with a fair chance that his grandchildren will have  prosperity.

Would he choose ?

Or just deny that the choice is genuine?