The Fascist instinct to punish speech they dislike is never far beneath the surface among the Leftists who infest the education system:
Dakota Ary, an honors student at Western Hills High School in Fort Worth, Texas, was in for a surprise after being sent to the principal’s office and punished for sharing his opinion. After telling another student that he believes homosexuality is wrong, Dakota was reprimanded and given in-school suspension.
Following the incident his mother, Holly Pope, received a call from an assistant principal at the school informing her of the punishment. In an interview with Fox News Radio, she says was “absolutely stunned“: "Dakota is a very well-grounded 14-year-old. He’s been in church his whole life and he’s been taught to stand up for what he believes. He was stating an opinion. He has a right to do that. They punished him for it.”
After hearing the student’s explanation, the assistant principal reduced the punishment from two days to one, but Dakota and his mother aren’t satisfied, as they believe his free speech has been infringed upon.
While the district isn’t speaking out about the incident, on Wednesday, Dakota, his mother and attorney Matt Krause met with the school’s principal. Pope hopes that the school will remove the disciplinary blemish from the child’s record, while pledging that there won’t be any further retaliation.
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13 comments:
It looks like the teacher has a homosexual agenda.
Personally, i'm always surprised to see so many stories of political correctness run-a-muk coming out of Mexas. One would have thought that to be the last place the incidious and freedom-killing PC virus would spread. Apparently, there are no cowboys left.
As has been pointed out here many times - free-speech has consequences and if you decide to go around your school or community saying eg. homosexuality or islam or irish traditions - etc. etc. are wrong, then you can expect some reaction.
I think you are all missing the point. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.... as long as it is the right one.
Yep - it's all just a battle of wills!
Just wait until your child challenges the public school party line that FDR got the USA out of the Depression. Then you'll see some real action! Feelings vs facts, it was a great battle :-)
Anon 2:27 am -
re: As has been pointed out here many times - free-speech has consequences and if you decide to go around your school or community saying eg. homosexuality or islam or irish traditions - etc. etc. are wrong, then you can expect some reaction.
The issue isn't with getting a reaction for free speech. That should be expected. The issue is getting PUNISHED for free speech. A teacher cannot state their OPINION on a controversial topic and then punish someone for expressing their OPINION. And before you go down the 'disruptive in class' direction, is the punishment stated really appropriate for that? Has it been applied consistently, even if expressions were something the teacher agreed with, or were not controversial in nature? If so, then the teacher has the right to punish for disruption. If they have not punished in the same, consistent way for speech they agreed with or was not controversial, then the content of the speech is the issue, not the fact that something was stated. Personally, without evidence to support, I think the teacher is punishing for the content. Similar to a student in a college class I was in who received a grade, "F - Your paper is good, by your opinion is wrong!"
But conservatives are paranoid for insisting there his a homosexual agenda? Seems fairly blatant to me.
The sinister plans by big brother to indoctirnate kids with the immoeral gay life style never ends espcialy with the evil NEA running our schools
The practice of homosexuality was illegal in Texas until the US Supreme Court struck down the Texas anti-sodomy law in 2003 (Lawrence v. Texas.) No doubt many would condemn the folks of Texas as being “intolerant” for having such a law on the books. But would those "intolerant" folks who placed the sodomy laws on the books have ever been so profoundly intolerant as to suspend a kid for saying they thought there was nothing wrong with sodomy. No, as intolerant as they might have been, they weren’t that intolerant.
But now we get the modern religion of PC whose high priests constantly rant about the importance of “tolerance.” Clearly they don’t understand the concept of tolerance, they only demand that everyone else tolerate their opinions as the hypocritically punish those with opposing opinions.
Anon 11 am - No, us conservatives are not paranoid for insisting there was a homosexual agenda, but that isn't what we are insisting. We find it odd that the teacher makes statements about a controversial subject and isn't allowing dissent (actually we don't find it odd, we find it hypocritical). We are insisting that the punishment doesn't seem to fit the crime, indicating that the content of the speech WAS an issue to the teacher. I highly doubt that if the student said something to his friend that was about the weather that the 'disruption' would have occurred. Perhaps if the teacher hadn't decided to proselytize his views on a controversial subject upon the students, then this 'disruption' wouldn't have occurred either. Maybe he should have stuck to his job: teaching the children, not indoctrinating them with his views.
The teacher in this incident has now been placed on administrative leave. Apparently he was actively push homosexuality.
Teacher put on leave for blasting student's faith
If you agree with or even promote an activity that is legal where someone teaches (was it?), then how can that be contaversial or a reason to be suspended?
It has been said here that promoting Christianity is not (or should not) be aganist the law either, on the same grounds that it's legal.
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