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October 17, 2005

This Guy Really Doesn't Get It

"Catholic High School Teacher Forced Out over Flag", said the breathless story headline! It seems a teacher employed at a Catholic high school in Connecticut was disciplined for refusing to have a US flag in “his” classroom.

As a private institution the school has every right to include or deny whatever flags it desires. The aggrieved teacher is an employee who can either suck it up or resign. So why is this story being reported as if were a modern day Kristalnacht and an eerie foreshadowing of a new period of McCarthyism?

I think it’s because the writer doesn’t understand the proper relation between employer and employee. Or perhaps in the teacher’s muddled thought process the separation of Church and State applies to private entities too. Maybe it’s just because he’s an asshole? Hmmm.

Posted by Ali Massoud at October 17, 2005 11:32 PM

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