Heat Street – by Ian Miles Cheong
A teacher who displayed the Confederate flag to middle schoolers in his history class was forced to retire amid concerns that he was displaying a symbol of hate.
In a public statement (via the Sacramento Bee), Folsom Cordova Unified School District made suggested that he may have hung up the flag for some reason other than to teach the history lesson.
“We recognize that regardless of context, to many of our students, families, and staff, the Confederate flag is a racist symbol of hate,” the statement reads. “Although this matter is under investigation, it is important to reiterate: Any employee who is found to engage in behavior that creates an unsafe environment for students will face full consequences, including the possibility of initiating termination proceedings.”
“In this case, the flag — which was found across the room from a Civil War Union flag, potentially in preparation of a history activity — was removed from the classroom before school began today,” it continues. “It is our schools’ responsibility to provide a safe learning environment for all children.”
The school district also announced Hart’s “retirement.”
Last year, Hart dealt with a similar controversy about being racially insensitive when a family complained about how he made “an inappropriate lynching analogy” during a history lesson. Per the complaint, Hart said “When you hang one black person, you have to hang them all. That is equality.”
He made the statement in context of Southerners who were required by law to treat individuals from outside their states the same way they treated their own black residents. In the investigation, Hart told school administrators that Southerners would often reply with glib remarks about “equality” when other Americans took them to task over racial discrimination.
In addition to the parents who lodged the complaint, the Sacramento chapter of the social justice organization, Showing Up for Racial Justice, demanded a public apology from Hart.
The school district superintendent Deborah Bettencourt says that the administration “do not want to limit the free speech of our teachers,” but adds that their expectation is that “teachers and staff will do this work using culturally appropriate strategies.”
Given the hypersensitivity of millennial parents and their offspring, it’s a wonder how any teacher can get their job done without offending someone.
Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter and on Facebook.
Give the southerners back their flag….A imprison that pakistani, muslim sleep around who started all of this. Yep, it was a muslim female from pakistan.
We can use any instance against anyone, like they do.
You cannot erase history no matter how hard you try. This is absurd.
If they can create 6 million holyhoax “victims” to perpetuate an illusion of victimhood, you bet they can erase history. It truly IS absurd but unfortunately not implausible at all. The big three major publishers will see to it.
It would have been just fine is he hung one of the Muslim flags.
Those people do not know there was a number of flags flown in the South. The Stares and Bars was just one.
“…culturally appropriate strategies” is another term for politically correct.
Teaching accurate history is forbidden these days.
Like ‘words’, flags are also symbols. Remember the saying ”sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me”?
Well, lieing and deceitful words can end up doing damage after the fact.
These days words, symbols are in a sense being turned into ‘idols’ of a sort where all reason goes out the rational reason window.
What is scary to me about this story is how the minds of all students in most if not all schools from K1 on up is being strictly controlled by many gate keepers to program the students.
And they attack anyone who steps out of line.
This is not about the progress of freedom or protection as promoted.
It’s the exact opposite!
Of course in this case the ‘agency’ named The Department of Education is an unconstitutional corporation which is in legal terms named an ‘entity’!
Entities are not to be equated to living beings like men, woman and children. But, I relate it to demonic spirit entities.
Yet the politicians, the court justices etc. reckon corporations to have equal if not superior rights to that of living people.
For all of us who already see these ongoing threats I propose the idea of a question. What should we do?
First, get angry. Then speak out where ever and to whom you can. Don’t take this lying down. This is a real threat.
We’re surrounded by these ‘entities’/agencies which live according to the love of profit.
“It is our schools’ responsibility to provide a safe learning environment for all children.”
The better to brainwash them with, right?
The only thing you commie scum are ‘teaching’ them is how to be a good little snowflake/NWO slave.