. . . and the verdict is already in?
Free speech means just that--if we start making exceptions, there will be no end to them.
"Free Speech" as a lawful right was the first exception to the rule, enacted only because laws against speaking freely existed in "other" lands. Ignoring the issue and leaving speech to develop naturally with the individual in the new nation of the U.S. of A. would have been the preferred approach -- but here we are, still going on about it. Restricting speech to be free was only the first problem. The rest were, and still are, bound to follow.
--If any of this story is true, this teacher should probably be fired, not for flag burning, but for being a lousy teacher and filling kids' heads with crap.
The entire story you have read here could be absolute fact. The person remains unknown. the motivation remains unknown. Nothing in the article presented justifies a teacher's dismissal. Nothing.
Dan
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