Flag-Burning Teacher: A Lesson In Free Speech

9th Engineer · 08-31-2006, 07:03 PM

I was refering to what the actual burning acomplished. If the kids are being taught the surrounding issues at another point in the class or reading about them in the textbook then that's everything important right there, no greater message is imparted by the burning. It's really just a gimick, just like lighting fireballs of methane in chem class gets oooo's and ahhh's from the class but teaches nothing they didn't already understand (methane burns, big deal), the burning of flags in history gets the kids excited in a 'you'll never guess what the teacher did today!' sort of way.
My 10th grade teacher hung a mannequin from a tree outside the classroom and had us sit by it during our lesson of what sparked the civil rights movement. Same intent, acomplished nothing in particular.

08-31-2006, 07:03 PM	#22
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	I was refering to what the actual burning acomplished. If the kids are being taught the surrounding issues at another point in the class or reading about them in the textbook then that's everything important right there, no greater message is imparted by the burning. It's really just a gimick, just like lighting fireballs of methane in chem class gets oooo's and ahhh's from the class but teaches nothing they didn't already understand (methane burns, big deal), the burning of flags in history gets the kids excited in a 'you'll never guess what the teacher did today!' sort of way. My 10th grade teacher hung a mannequin from a tree outside the classroom and had us sit by it during our lesson of what sparked the civil rights movement. Same intent, acomplished nothing in particular. __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.

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