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In reply to the discussion: Junior high teacher tells kid to remove Marines t-shirt or get suspended (has guns on it) [View all]TXDem1975
(4 posts)Can you imagine what this overblown controversy has done to the teacher involved? I read that the school had to call the police to the school because of all the threats posted online and to her email. A gentle soul just trying to do her job, and not able to tell the other side of the story, receiving threats of bodily harm from followers of the Tea Party father. This is a terrible thing to have happen to a teacher, most of whom are very gentle souls and love their students regardless of what a student or his parent do to cause great distress for the teacher. The kind of attacks she's the victim of could be life and career changing for her. And who knows, if the kid is lying or the father taking this to such a ridiculous level, may result in a kid learning a lesson that won't be productive for him or for society. That father would have done his son a favor by teaching him that it's no big deal, and just bought him a t-shirt with the REAL Marine insignia, one without two M16's plastered on the front. Now the kid knows how to get his father's backing. And he has learned to make the school look like the enemy. I can't imagine the Marine Corps endorsing this campaign against a teacher.