{"id":1278866,"date":"2022-02-09T16:59:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1278866"},"modified":"2022-02-09T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T22:03:29","slug":"teacher-gets-in-trouble-by-saying-pro-police-flag-is-the-new-confederacy-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teacher-gets-in-trouble-by-saying-pro-police-flag-is-the-new-confederacy-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher gets in trouble by saying pro-police flag is the \u2018new Confederacy flag\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteacher-gets-in-trouble-by-saying-pro-police-flag-is-the-new-confederacy-flag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1278866&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>While students are being suspended in Virginia for not wearing masks, in California a student was berated by a teacher for wearing the \u201cwrong\u201d one.<\/p>\n<p>The substitute teacher in California got himself recorded on video berating a student for wearing a non-obscene, inoffensive flag design in support of police.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Lillar, a 13-year-old in the eighth grade at Lyman Gilmore Middle School near Sacramento, appears in a video captured by another student as the unidentified substitute teacher calls him out in front of the class for wearing a Blue Lives Matter American flag mask, which features a blue line added to the stars and stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas later showed the video to his father and stepmother, who are both police officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not the American flag,\u201d the teacher says, correctly, but then adds: \u201cThat\u2019s the new confederacy flag.\u201d The teacher can then be heard yelling while Lucas tries to defend himself on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u201ds the thin blue line,\u201d the teen tries to explain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s black, white with some blue line in it,\u201d the teacher accuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the thin blue line,\u201d Lucas repeats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, but it\u2019s not American!\u201d the substitute teacher argues back, as if a school rule and not his own tastes had been violated.<\/p>\n<p>The substitute teacher has been let go and will not be teaching any further classes at the school, according to DailyMail.com.<\/p>\n<p>A number of high-profile killings of police officers have occurred recently, all across the nation. In California, LAPD officer Fernando Arroyo was shot dead during an armed robbery last month. New York City has been in mourning for two officers killed while responding to a domestic violence call.<\/p>\n<p>The Fraternal Order of Police reports that violence against law enforcement is spiraling, with 27 officers wounded and four killed in shootings in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese topics need to be left at the door,\u201d said Lucas\u2019 stepmother, Amanda McCallum, to CBS News. \u201cThe school is meant to educate our children in a safe environment and I don\u201dt feel like this was a safe environment, but it needs to be. We are entrusting these people of authority, these teachers with our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a time where we are so divided that we need to learn to be kind and respect each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of high-profile killings of police officers have occurred recently, all across the nation. In California, LAPD officer Fernando Arroyo was shot dead during an armed robbery last month. New York City has been in mourning for two officers killed while responding to a domestic violence call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}