Reply #8: With rights come responsibilities. [View All]

[last1standing]

I support the right to burn the flag just as I support any form of free speech. However, knowing when and where to apply this right is just common sense. Our classrooms are not the place to be burning flags or perform any other controversial exercise that would cause a national uproar. It takes away from valuable teaching time, and yes, there are many other ways to teach free speech without pissing off over half the nation.

How would all the people here supporting this idiocy feel if this story was some bush* lovin' Neanderthal burning pictures of Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, Paul Wellstone, or some other Democratic symbol? All this teacher has done is make a lot of people very angry with no good reason. The only lesson he's taught those children is that sometimes adults do stupid things. I'm guessing they already knew that.