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Updated: 9/11/2011 8:51 pm
TOWANDA, Kansas (AP) - A Kansas high school teacher is apologizing after parents complained because she stepped on an American flag while discussing free speech rights in her class.

Officials at Circle High School in Towanda say Jennifer McKinsey, a U.S. government and history teacher, stepped on the flag this week while discussing controversial behaviors that are protected by the First Amendment.


Cherie Davis, a parent of a Circle student, complained to school officials.

Circle principal Todd Dreifort says McKinsey has apologized for offending anyone. She has used the lesson in the past but Dreifort says it will no longer be allowed.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Davis says she didn't want McKinsey to be fired but did want her to understand that the lesson would offend many people.
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melmendoza - 9/20/2011 5:10 PM
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Ministeroffire: please study constitutional law before you post again. Any first year law student can rip your post apart in seconds. Research the supreme court interpretations of the scope and breadth of first amendment protection to symbolic speech, and then you'll have something worthwhile to say.

JohnDavid77 - 9/16/2011 1:21 PM
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@ministeroffire I was hoping for some interesting and stimulating discussion on First Amendment rights. You, ministeroffire, are not providing it.

ministeroffire - 9/16/2011 8:59 AM
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JohnDavid77, You are Obviously Constitutionally Illiterate and Simple Minded about the First Amendment! Have you never read the First Amendment? It Starts Out with Our FREEDOM Of RELIGION, and the FREE EXERCISE THEREOF, and Then FREEDOM Of SPEECH! You Show your Simple Mindedness and Ignorance when you Try to Separate the Two! Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or GOD? Or do I seek to Please men? For if I yet Pleased men, I Should Not Be the Servant of CHRIST!/ I'm Not In This World to Please you or mankind! (miss spelled word 'men' correction in Scripture Quote)

ministeroffire - 9/16/2011 8:45 AM
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JohnDavid77, You are Obviously Constitutionally Illiterate and Simple Minded about the First Amendment! Have you never read the First Amendment? It Starts Out with Our FREEDOM Of RELIGION, and the FREE EXERCISE THEREOF, and Then FREEDOM Of SPEECH! You Show your Simple Mindedness and Ignorance when you Try to Separate the Two! Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade me, or GOD? Or do I seek to Please me? For if I yet Pleased men, I Should Not Be the Servant of CHRIST!/ I'm Not In This World to Please you!

ministeroffire - 9/16/2011 8:25 AM
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workinman, First off I'd like to say that I am sad to hear about your life's struggles and wife's cancer and kids nerve and brain problems. And I pray that they get better, In the TRUE JESUS CHRIST'S HOLY NAME, AMEN! We all have our own life's struggles in this Perishable Flesh World Age, GOD Never Promised It Would Be Easy. Just look at all of the evil things this World did and Still does do to the TRUE JESUS CHRIST. But it is very HYPOCRITICAL of you Liberals here to basically say that the American Legion and other people do Not Have the Same First Amendment Rights to FREEDOM Of SPEECH Against this Ignorant Teacher. Constitutionally We Do Have the Same First Amendment Rights to FREEDOM Of SPEECH Against this Ignorant Teacher! So Get Over Yourselves!

workinman - 9/15/2011 4:28 PM
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Your good, May we need to use a bigger stick

JohnDavid77 - 9/15/2011 2:53 PM
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@workinman Good point. My intent was to slap back the adults who refuse to understand first amendment rights, but I wrote it very poorly. My apologies.

JohnDavid77 - 9/15/2011 2:46 PM
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@workinman Good point. My intent was to slap back the adults who refuse to understand first amendment rights, but I wrote it very poorly. My apologies.

JohnDavid77 - 9/15/2011 2:46 PM
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@workinman Good point. My intent was to slap back the adults who refuse to understand first amendment rights, but I wrote it very poorly. My apologies.

workinman - 9/15/2011 12:00 PM
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Well said, easy on the students, please
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