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My 16 year old, half Japanese brother, Joshua, was just expelled from high school in a small Arkansas town.

Apparently, someone took offense to a shirt he wore before the VT killings with “4 out of the 5 voices in my head tell me to go for it” on the front, and complained to the office about him being “asian and quiet”. Exact words.

Well, it’s good to see that we’re progressing towards being a safer society.

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I’ve read a few articles about the Phelps family over time, most recently this one which is an overview of sorts to the videos linked below.

I was raised believe in tolerance and forgiveness. I was tought that the freedom of speech was a right that shouldn’t be taken for granted.

Ironically, I was also taught that people from the South and Southwest are inferior to most of the rest of us, especially if they have accents. And parents that have 11 kids are usually only good at one thing.

In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

Thomas Jefferson

See the documentary on the phelps after the jump:
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http://mr-collins.com/

Mr. Mike Collins of Reeds Spring High School has been put on administrative leave pending a school board hearing for his “immoral actions” while verbally defending mentally disabled children in his classroom from the constant barrage of harassing remarks from classroom bullies. Mr. Collins, the 2001 Missouri State Teacher of the Year, had written up these bullies multiple times, but nothing had changed.

Finally, Mr. Collins had had enough.

After another round of taunting, Mr. Collins took the verbally abusive children outside of the classroom and told them, “This is my classroom. You are going to stop f***ing picking on these kids.”

Keeping true to their contemptuous nature, the scolded students complained to the principal that they were threatened by Mr. Collins. The principal in turn reported the incident to the superintendent who ordered this harsh and unnecessary punishment.

How sad is the state of society when a long-standing, nationally recognized member of the community is chastised for standing up for the rights of a student. Instead of supporting one of their tenured faculty members, the administration of Reeds Spring High School has cowered in fear of retaliation. Most likely, this is due to a previous failed attempt by one of the “threatened” students to sue the school district which incurred several thousand dollars of legal fees for the school.

As you review this site, ask yourself what’s worth more: the self-esteem and safety of students or the price of a lawyer?

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