• glimse@lemmy.world
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    “If she can’t wear that belt buckle, then why is it appropriate to make an assignment out of it?”

    I don’t get how we can learn about WWII but I’m getting in trouble for my third reich armband

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      🤣

      The controversial message offended one Hephzibah High School student, who told her mom the teacher put a photo of the Confederate flag on the board with text saying: “A sticker you put on the back of your pickup truck to announce that you intend to marry your sister. Think of it like a white trash ‘Save the Date’ card.”

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    "He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,

    And frightened “Old Virginny” till she trembled through and through

    They hung him for a traitor, themselves a traitor crew,

    But his soul is marching on."

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
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    “A lot of [the discussion] is that it’s not morally correct. It’s unethical,” Fuller told the station. “It’s just something you don’t want to discuss today in today’s world and especially inside of a classroom.”

    Fuller said her daughter once wore a belt to school with a Confederate flag buckle. The school asked her daughter to take it off, which she did, and she received an in-house suspension. “If she can’t wear that belt buckle, then why is it appropriate to make an assignment out of it?” Fuller said.

    The mom said her issue was not with the Confederate flag photo, it was with the text. “Why was that used? With it being such a rough area, why would you put that our there to a class discussion that could have turned very ugly?” Fuller said.

    “The Richmond County School System is committed to creating a diverse, equitable learning environment for all students,” the district said in a statement reported by WRDW. “The language used in the example was unacceptable and has no place in our classrooms.”

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    Anyone trying to make a pro star and bars flag argument other than in an ironic or comic way deserves any shit they get from the rest of the world. Fuck the confederacy.