A high school teacher in Northern California threatened to kick a student out of a virtual class unless he removed a “Trump 2020” flag from his camera background.
According to KOVR-TV, the 16-year-old student was in his bedroom participating in an online class for Colusa High School when his chemistry teacher took issue with the sign and demanded that he take it down or adjust the camera view.
“Since school has begun, my son has had this Trump flag hanging in his background,” the student’s mother, Tiffany, told the news outlet. Their last names have been withheld from reports.
According to the student’s mother, the teacher told her son, “You can sit up, remove the flag, or reposition your camera within the next 15 seconds or I’m kicking you out of class.”
In a video of the incident, recorded by another student and included in the news video below, the teacher can be heard counting to 15 seconds while repeating the threat.
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Colusa Student Says Teacher Threatened To Kick Him Out Of Virtual Class Over Trump Flag
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As the video shows, the teacher wasn’t able to complete the count before the student decided to sign off from the class on his own. He can be seen waving to the camera before the screen goes black.
According to KOVR-TV, the teacher has since apologized. The student’s mother said she isn’t blaming the teacher so much as she is the school board for not giving clear guidance on the issue.
“She is a new teacher and it’s a mistake,” she said. “There hasn’t been any guidance given to her as a teacher for the school.”
Tiffany said that when she reached out to a board representative requesting a clarification for the code of conduct, she was rejected.
“He flat out told me no. We’ve just not been given any guidance,” she said.
The Colusa County Code of Conduct includes a dress code ban for clothing with “vulgar, obscene, or profane” messages, or messages which “degrade any race or other group of individuals” — but nowhere in the document does it mention anything about politics or campaigns.
State Education Code 48907 states: “[Students] of the public schools, including charter schools, shall have the right to exercise freedom of speech and of the press including, but not limited to, the use of bulletin boards, the distribution of printed materials or petitions, the wearing of buttons, badges, and other insignia, and the right of expression in official publications, whether or not the publications or other means of expression are supported financially by the school or by use of school facilities, except that expression shall be prohibited which is obscene, libelous, or slanderous. Also prohibited shall be material that so incites pupils as to create a clear and present danger of the commission of unlawful acts on school premises or the violation of lawful school regulations, or the substantial disruption of the orderly operation of the school.”
The student has reportedly not been punished over the incident.
Cory Booker should recluse himself on any racial matters!
I blame the teacher. If it was a Biden flag would she have demanded the same. They are coming into our home so if they don’t like it open the schools and get back to work in the schools.
who is da smegmite slurping teacher. What her name, obviously a treasonous seditious communist dumorat sack of shit to want to dictate what you can have in your own home, fire the brainwashing communist dumorat turd
You are literally a moron. Go back to Moscow.
Teacher should be fired. How dare her !
Stop her before she poisons the minds of our children.
Yes, much like Trump has poisoned the minds of all Americans.
What has Trump done for you to say that. Have you done your research? he has done nothing but helped to improve our nation, He had our economy back on track before Covid came in. He brought back our jobs and businesses from overseas, he has created infrastructure all over our nation. he hasn’t raised any of our taxes, what has he poisoned???? ..you must be a Biden follower. Tell me what has Biden done in 8 years when he was with Obama?..He talks big now but his promises are all pipe dreams. Biden is a baby killer so is that creep Harris. He wants to raise our taxes, he wants to defund our police. Him and trump are like night and day. You want to know who will poison the minds of our children? People that don’t know what they’re talking about without having the right facts in front of them!!!!!..and definitely Biden..
Even though I totally agree with you, the battleground we are fighting on is so tainted with straightforward ignorance of the facts, that trying to present the facts is like slapping a a statue to kill a fly. When you argue with a political moron you bring yourself down to their level, Don’t degrade yourself. Smile and walk away. YOU know what’s what. Ignorance is a cureable situation whereas stupidity cannot be fixed.
BUT…if you allow absolute lies to go unchecked, they proliferate. I’d like to give the uninformed the benefit of the doubt that they have simply bought the lies fed to them by library’s who willfully LIE to them via corrupt media and corrupt politicians.
I really can’t understand what is happening in a Country that was founded on FREEDOM. It is all right for the stupid liberals to say and do anything they want, yet they clearly feel that anyone that is a conservative should not have any rights at all. To live in fear of your life in a FREE COUNTRY because you don’t have the same views and values as the liberals is ridiculous to say the least. To live in fear of saying the wrong word, or flying a flag, or wearing a certain hat is not a free country. If the liberals win the election in November it will not be a free country any longer. I am fearful that the liberals will not just steal the election, but our freedom with their illegal “mail in” ballots and ” fake and paid for ballots”. How can so many in this country not see that Biden is a puppet and that we will be ruled by China come November 4th.
And Trump is a puppet that is controlled by Putin. $300 million in loans that he owes to that mobster. Either way we all lose.
Dawn you have hit the nail on the head. I completely agree with everything you have said. Plus I think that teacher should be fired. How dare she insist that boy remove a flag in his own home. I don’t care if she didn’t know the rules what does that have to do with anything? She clearly did not want to see a trump flag which probably means she’s for BidenThe mother is too permissive about this teacher. I would be fluming if that was my child. The point is she stomped on this boy’s freedom of expression in his own home.I do think this teacher would end up poisoning the minds of young children. She should keep her political opinions to herself and not bring it into the classroom. Her job is to teach not push her political choices onto her students.Where has our freedom gone. What’s wrong is right and what’s right is wrong these days.There are a lot of hatemongers in our country. If they don’t like the U.S.A. they should move the heck out. if they lived in a communist country and had no freedom of any kind then maybe they would appreciate the freedoms we have here. I don’t understand why people in our country put up with jerks like the NFL that get down on a knee to disrespect our flag and those who fought to make them free.. It has nothing to do with race, creed or color, it has to do with honor, respect, and those that have died to make us a free nation. If this teacher was so smart she’d do the research on who she is backing. A guy that has no respect for children, he’s pro abortion,has no respect for authority wants to defund our police, and wants to let every criminal in our country to kill people because he wants to open up the floodgates to illegal aliens.Maybe somebody should give her some lessons instead of the other way around.
Listen to yourself you overpoliticized monkey. You obviously have a side of your own. Your ideology is the other half of those jerks that have divided our country. Think monkey, think.
The only monkey here is you. The only ones that have divided our country is Biden and Obama and maybe idiots like you. Why don’t you have your facts straight? Do your research and put your brain where your mouth is.