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Public School Teacher Mocks Female Student’s Romney T-Shirt, Accuses Her of Supporting the KKK

Chris736 Wrote: Dec 22, 2012 8:16 AM
If the reports are true this teacher should be fired. Teachers hold an enormous responsibility not the least of which is the power to demean a student which can be crushing. They need to always think before they speak. That's the job. If you don't like the rules, drive a truck or sell tupperware. On top of that, this was not a single poorly worded remark but appears to be a vindictive pattern that ran for several minutes. The school needs to adios that mean spirited woman, she is no educator.
rhinegarten Wrote: Dec 22, 2012 8:30 AM
Time to start sending kids to private schools or better yet, home school. Public schools are too dangerous anyway, and nothing is going to be done about it.

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."

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