MilProGuy
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Very well said!
And...I believe you're right on target in your second declaration.
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Teacher punishes student for saying "bless you"
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Very well said!
And...I believe you're right on target in your second declaration.
since9
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"When you sneeze in the old days, they thought you were dispelling evil spirits out of your body. So they were saying, 'God bless you' for getting rid of evil spirits. But today, I said, what you're doing doesn't really make any sense anymore," said teacher Steve Cuckovich.
Mr. Cockroach, what you're doing doesn't make any sense at all. Punishing a student for rendering a common and polite response to a sneeze? Please! Grow a brain! Tell you what - visit with me for a week and every time you sneeze I'll whack you with a hickory switch. If you cry out, I'll whack you again. We'll see how long you hold on to your very warped principles.
On a more serious note, the school board should mandate HE say "bless you" every time a student sneezes, with the students turning him in if he doesn't. If Cockroach doesn't like it, he can just run along and play.
Elsewhere.
That's hardly reassuring when the teacher was being a peon.
There's absolutely nothing to indicate any of what you say is true. There's a lot in the news story, short as it is, to indicate what happened is precisely what's printed on.
Sheer conjecture does not add anything, but it does obfuscate the issue. Put simply, it's not helping.
Mr. Cockroach, what you're doing doesn't make any sense at all. Punishing a student for rendering a common and polite response to a sneeze? Please! Grow a brain! Tell you what - visit with me for a week and every time you sneeze I'll whack you with a hickory switch. If you cry out, I'll whack you again. We'll see how long you hold on to your very warped principles.
On a more serious note, the school board should mandate HE say "bless you" every time a student sneezes, with the students turning him in if he doesn't. If Cockroach doesn't like it, he can just run along and play.
Elsewhere.
That's hardly reassuring when the teacher was being a peon.
There's absolutely nothing to indicate any of what you say is true. There's a lot in the news story, short as it is, to indicate what happened is precisely what's printed on.
Sheer conjecture does not add anything, but it does obfuscate the issue. Put simply, it's not helping.
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SouthernBoy
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since9
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Well, it's somewhat ironic that I was hardly being polite with the change of his name...
PistolPackingMomma
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SouthernBoy
Regular Member
Perhaps, but I understand your impatience with this sort of, can I say, stupidity and frankly I agree. If the sneezing and carrying on was being done by students who are just looking to press a teacher's buttons, then discipline is in order. But not for an honest response of, "God bless you" by a student to another student's sneeze. And based upon his reasoning for his actions, it doesn't seem he was getting "tested" by disorderly students.
No, I say the teacher is out of order and needs to learn from students who are simply expressing a common response resulting from a decent upbringing. Just one more piece of evidence of how far we've gone astray.
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Tawnos
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It's also a dumb meme that has been perpetuated despite its underlying belief being long since eradicated. Is it really "polite" when somebody is just acting on rote instinct from years of social operant conditioning?
Haz.
Regular Member
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Innocent children are all common sense. I read somewhere, where a teacher turns on a particular piece of music, and asks all the little children in the class to clap to the music. The children and the teacher begin to clap, when the teacher add's, "Every time each one of us claps a little child dies somewhere in Africa of starvation and sickness." After a minute of music and clapping the teacher asks the children, "What can we do to save the liile children in Africa?"
A tiny voice from down the back of the class calls; "Lets stop clapping right away!"
Cheers, Haz.
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Tawnos
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since9
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On the other hand, is it as stupidly abusive as was the teacher's response?
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SouthernBoy
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Frankly, I'll stick with my Southern upbringing where my mom use to say, "Treat everyone with respect and dignity, until they give you reason not to. Then just avoid them".
Tawnos
Regular Member
Heh, our theater teacher in HS would yell and scream if people started saying bless you after someone sneezed. I could see their frustration. A class of 30 people, one person sneezes and everyone starts talking to say bless you and the sneezer says thank you a bunch. Should they yell or deduct points? Probably not, but I can see where they are coming from.
georg jetson
Regular Member
dbag?? Seems like a man of principle to me. Besides the first amendment reads...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, <SNIP
The language is clear... CONGRESS shall make no law. Putting up the Ten Commandments in a state or local court house does not = congress making a law. This is an abuse of the application of the 14th amendment as well as a total disregard for the 9th and 10th amendments.
Tawnos
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Keep herping that derp.
georg jetson
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Now I understand why you chose your post signature...
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Tawnos
Regular Member
Because I'm not too proud to understand this:
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Yeah, just keep herpaderpadoo'ing away. You can call people "principled" all you like, but if you're going to keep huffing that religious retarding solvent, how about I just mention Alabama's constitution, which says NOTHING about Congress (I won't even get into your misuse of the 14th)?
Article 1, Section 3:
Principled my ass.
georg jetson
Regular Member
Wow. You almost posted something useful.
What law was established? Art. 1 Sec. 3 is CLEAR. "That no religion shall be established BY LAW; that no preference shall be given BY LAW to any religious sect, society, denomination, or mode of worship; that no one shall be compelled BY LAW..."
WHAT LAW is in question here?? It can't be a law the judge passed because judges can't pass laws.
In addition, the ten commandments are NOT a religion. Do you know what the word "religion" means?
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Tawnos
Regular Member
Until your ideological blinders come off, you will never be able to see how it could matter that those apply the law to the law are establishing religion via posting their particular religion's take on the [strike]15[/strike]10 commandments.
georg jetson
Regular Member
You posted the law yourself. The law says NOTHING about what a judge may display in his courthouse. The removal of this judge was obviously unfounded and strictly political. This is just another way the federal government uses nosey people to control the masses.
You're applying your ideology to this issue of law. You're simply wrong. Spend less time in the urban dictionary and more time in law books.
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