16 year old Girl bullied for wearing a political T-Shirt....by teacher!!

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She should be fired immediately. This is pathetic, no matter what the girl's political views (or non for that matter) are.

Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most high school kids don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most college students don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

kingkong0124

She deserved far worse than that for wearing a Mitt Romney shirt.

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Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most college students don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

DevilMightCry

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[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most college students don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

chessmaster1989

Disgusting :?

I predict that either nothing will happen to this teacher, or the father will face an uphill battle with the school board over getting the teacher fired.

A teacher is supposed to be impartial to an extent and not care about the students' political affiliation.

I know it will start a sh*tstorm, but I bet the teacher was black and the student was white.

She deserved far worse than that for wearing a Mitt Romney shirt.

moneymatterz

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"][QUOTE="DevilMightCry"] Fixed it.DevilMightCry

Hope the teacher does not tenure,

deserves to be fired as quickly as posible.

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"][QUOTE="DevilMightCry"] Hippes care for World Peace too. Doesn't mean they know what the %^&$ they're talking about.DevilMightCry

Right I got that you were saying most college students were uninformed, but I still don't know what that has to do with your original claim that most college students don't care about politics (which was what I was disputing).

[QUOTE="DevilMightCry"][QUOTE="chessmaster1989"] ??? What's that have to do with what I said or the original point about college students not caring about politics?chessmaster1989

Right I got that, but I still don't know what that has to do with your original claim that most college students don't care about politics (which was what I was disputing).

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[QUOTE="DevilMightCry"] Sorry that flew over your head. College students may "care" about politics, but their knowledge of it is rather pathetic. Now, that same goes for general public. The fact that when I asked students for a project if Bush won in 2000, most if not all said "Gore won". Also most college students think they live in a democracy. Or that they cast a vote for the President every 4 years.DevilMightCry

Right I got that, but I still don't know what that has to do with your original claim that most college students don't care about politics (which was what I was disputing).

Not all issues though are economic issues, nor does everyone who cares about politics care due to economic issues. For example, a person might care deeply about politics out of support for gay marriage, for pro-choice stances, for pro-life stances, etc.

Taking an economics or political science class alone does not guarantee you know what you're talking about either, although it generally helps.

Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most high school kids don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

kingkong0124

The fact that when I asked students for a project if Bush won in 2000, most if not all said "Gore won". DevilMightCry

Well now you're just making sh*t up.

Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most high school kids don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

kingkong0124

Applauded for wearing a shirt to school huh? I guess the standard for being political aware is incredibly low

On topic, that teacher is a fool and should not be teaching

Well that's just wrong. Even if you disagree with someone's political views that doesn't give you the right to start tormenting them. Teacher should definitely be punished.

[QUOTE="DevilMightCry"]The fact that when I asked students for a project if Bush won in 2000, most if not all said "Gore won". JML897

Well now you're just making sh*t up.

BTW, I don't mean who won the election, but if they thought that Gore won based on votes.DevilMightCry

Oh
that makes it more believable

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[QUOTE="DevilMightCry"]The fact that when I asked students for a project if Bush won in 2000, most if not all said "Gore won". DevilMightCry

Well now you're just making sh*t up.

Bush won the electoral vote but didn't Gore win the popular vote?

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2000

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/prespop.htm

Every link shows Gore winning the popular vote. So I'm not really sure what you mean? Can you elaborate please? Do you think Bush won the popular vote?

Well Romney is a bully, so it seems appropriate...

The teacher definitely should've handled it a different way, but I'm fine with the concept of teachers challenging students on their ideals provided it's done in a civilized way. Same with everyone else.

She deserved far worse than that for wearing a Mitt Romney shirt.

moneymatterz

I'm fine with the concept of teachers challenging students on their ideals provided it's done in a civilized way. Same with everyone else.

brickdoctor

Yeah I would be cool with that, especially for college courses.

This teacher was clearly over the line provided the girl is telling the truth about what happened.

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She deserved far worse than that for wearing a Mitt Romney shirt.

Nuck81

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Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most high school kids don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

Bane_09

Applauded for wearing a shirt to school huh? I guess the standard for being political aware is incredibly low

On topic, that teacher is a fool and should not be teaching

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Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most high school kids don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

kuraimen

you're not aware of anything if you think this.

Link

She should be fired immediately. This is pathetic, no matter what the girl's political views (or non for that matter) are.

DevilMightCry

Teacher should be fired ASP.

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[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most college students don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

chessmaster1989

This is a bigger problem than the teacher, basically most public schools are designed to have teachers who are democrats. A cousin of mine has to pretend to be a democrat to become a teacher... There is some serious biggotry going on. Really, all this teacher had to say is "Yes, this was out of line and I apologize," situation is done. But she felt she is right to call someone a KKK supporter.

This is a bigger problem than the teacher, basically most public schools are designed to have teachers who are democrats. A cousin of mine has to pretend to be a democrat to become a teacher... There is some serious biggotry going on. Really, all this teacher had to say is "Yes, this was out of line and I apologize," situation is done. But she felt she is right to call someone a KKK supporter.

mahlasor

A lot of people say this but I know I didn't experience it. My favorite high school teacher was a big conservative. In college too I had some conservative finance professors and whatnot.

This is a bigger problem than the teacher, basically most public schools are designed to have teachers who are democrats. A cousin of mine has to pretend to be a democrat to become a teacher... There is some serious biggotry going on. Really, all this teacher had to say is "Yes, this was out of line and I apologize," situation is done. But she felt she is right to call someone a KKK supporter.

mahlasor

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Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most high school kids don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

kuraimen

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Horrible. If anything, this girl should be applauded for being politically aware. Most high school kids don't give 2 sh*ts about politics.

kuraimen

Don't mind Kura, he's just mad that he lives in a 3rd world country.

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"][QUOTE="DevilMightCry"] Fixed it.Drasonak

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This is a bigger problem than the teacher, basically most public schools are designed to have teachers who are democrats. A cousin of mine has to pretend to be a democrat to become a teacher... There is some serious biggotry going on. Really, all this teacher had to say is "Yes, this was out of line and I apologize," situation is done. But she felt she is right to call someone a KKK supporter.

sSubZerOo

You are trying to pass my post as irrelevent by using sarcasm and well it is "you are." Well considering I was listening to a conversation about her training to be a teacher, and my relevatives were commenting about her having to register as a democrat so she can get a job.. I hardly call that a conspiracy, I am sayying there is a bias towards teachers who are republican.

edit: just to clarify, I think also that public schools attract democrats/liberals, which eventually when you get the super-intendents that are democrats and liberals, they will want to hire people lik them.

Your evidence is that your relatives were talking about it?

REALLY?

If I were a teacher in the United States, I would not ever ask any of my students any questions about anything, and I wouldn't ever go outside the bare minimum I need to teach for the most basic curriculum. I wouldn't get to know any of them and I'd make no attempts to act as a mentor.

Because it seems like every time a teacher opens his or her big mouth, it causes a mountain of controversy.

This is a bigger problem than the teacher, basically most public schools are designed to have teachers who are democrats. A cousin of mine has to pretend to be a democrat to become a teacher...

mahlasor

Most of my teachers are conservatives, depends on where you live and I really doubt your cousin had to pretend to be a democrat to get a job as a teacher

first world problems

Your evidence is that your relatives were talking about it?

REALLY?

JML897

It is common knowledge that colleges are more liberal oriented.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/201202/is-there-liberal-bias-among-american-professors

Or I can just say that I went to public school and public college, I could tell. Also I took a political class that discussed liberal schools and such, its common knowledge dude.

This is the reason why I would never put a political bumper stick on my car; all I need is some ass who doesn't agree with me to key my paint.

*That and I don't want stickers on my car :P