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‘Suspend that principal’: High school scraps 9/11 football tribute

‘for fear that red, white & blue colors might cause offense’

13 Sep, 2021 17:46 / Updated 2 hours ago

Eastlake High has caused outrage by reportedly canceling a 9/11 football memorial.

© Google Maps / Eastlake High School

A high school principal in Washington State has faced online fury after it was reported students were prohibited from wearing red, white and blue to honor the 9/11 attacks at a football match for fear of causing offense.

According to radio host Jason Rantz, football players weren't allowed to don the patriotic colors at Eastlake High School in Sammamish as they might "unintentionally cause offense to some who see it differently".

After the patriotic-themed tribute was reportedly canceled "at the last minute", one student explained on Rantz's show how the decision was made as "red, white and blue was going to be seen as racially insensitive and may affect people in a way that we will not understand, and for that reason we were [made] to change our theme."

I think I would like a list of such peoples who would be offended by the American flag? I am hard-pressed to think of whom it might be other than those who flattened the twin towers and killed nearly 3,000 people. 

Instead of preventing some people from being offended, he has offended most Americans. How did this guy get to be a principal with decisions like that?

KTTH 770/94.5FM also uploaded a screenshot of an email from one of Eastlake's associate principals which said she understood the "sacrifice and values our flag represents, but I think they [school leadership] just did not want to unintentionally cause offense to some who see it differently."

Furthermore, Rantz said that the principal Chris Bede, and the district’s communication director Shannon Parthemer, failed to go into specifics regarding who exactly would be offended by seeing the players dressed in such colors.

"Since it was not a home game, there was no opportunity to have an announcement about Patriots Day and to share why students were dressed in red, white and blue," said Parthemer, who told Rantz a decision was made by a still-unnamed member of staff to cancel the theme to Bede's surprise.

"I do want to clarify that schools do not have a right to ban students from wearing anything as long as it is not lewd, vulgar etc. And the theme of red, white and blue definitely would not fit into that category," is what Bede said to parents.

On the internet, though, as news spread of the incident, some users have been calling for his head.

"That principle should be suspended," demanded one. 

"You should be outraged. I hope something positive comes out of it on your side, like the firing of the principal," said another, after a parent took to Twitter to explain she would "be heard".

"Oh my Lord, we simply must get over the worry over the micro-aggressions. Let the sensitive go see a therapist and let the rest of society just live their lives," said a calmer head.

"Wearing the colors of our nation might offend some as we commemorate a tragedy that happened here?" a separate party asked.

"Even if you have issues with policies, beliefs, and attitudes, which I do, it was still a national tragedy that occurred and those who died should be remembered and honored."

Teen Girls Stage School Walkout to Protest Boys in Their Bathroom Who Claim to be ‘Girls’

 Abraham Lincoln High School, Gender Ideology, High School, Transgenderism, Walkout

(LifeSiteNews) – The backlash against the relentless assault on nearly every civilizational institution by transgender activists seems to be slowly increasing as ordinary men and women realize the implications of the transgender agenda and the abolition of gender. Muslim parents in the UK pulled hundreds of children out of school, forcing a shutdown of recently-implemented LGBT programming. And as I reported back in February, students are pushing back, signing petitions demanding the return of their gender-segregated bathrooms and even suing their high schools in order to retrieve their right to privacy.

Last week, the debate erupted again in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Two groups of students staged a walkout at Abraham Lincoln High School over bathroom privacy, with the protest being sparked by a girl who stated that her privacy was violated by a biological male who “recently began to identify as a girl” using the female bathroom. She was joined by about twenty other high school girls who left the school at 10:30 AM and began “chanting for privacy in restrooms, saying they don’t want boys transitioning into being girls to be in the restroom with them.”

It is worth noting that much of the transgender ideology is so new that if someone had predicted high school girls would be fighting to keep biological males out of their bathrooms ten years ago, LGBT activists would have accused those making these predictions of fearmongering, bigotry, and deceit. Now, of course, if you defend the right of young girls to be uncomfortable with penises in their bathrooms and change rooms, you are guilty of transphobia. Some trans activists have gone so far as to say that girls uncomfortable changing in the presence of biological boys need to get over their internalized transphobia.

The 20 girls demanding privacy were confronted by nearly 40 students of mixed gender chanting in favor of state law, which requires schools to allow students to use whichever bathroom they feel most comfortable with, irrespective of the feelings of female students. Many of the girls made their feelings crystal clear.

“We felt very uncomfortable with a male who’s not doing anything to be transgender going into female restrooms,” said Elana Owens. “I believe if you have the male parts you go to the males’ bathroom and if you have the female parts you go to a ladies room and that’s just the way I was raised,” added Brandi Scherlund, almost in tears. Those supporting the so-called right of biological males to use the female bathroom stated that the law is on their side.

In response to the student walkouts, Superintendent of the Council Bluffs Community School District Dr. Vickie Murillo stated that, “According to the U.S. Department of Education, which Iowa has adopted that same language and is now part of our state law, our students who are transitioning into a new gender have the right to use the restroom that they identify with. So it is our obligation to allow that to occur.”

Murillo did not address the contention of one female student, who noted that there was a biological male making no effort to physically transition joining them in their bathroom. Abraham Lincoln High stated that no students would be punished for the walkout.

We’re going to see a lot more of these scenarios unfold as the ideology of transgender activists collides with the simple realities of human nature, including the fact that many teenage girls do not want to change in the same room with biological males, and that most people simply do not buy the idea that there are thousands of "girls" with penises inhabiting American high schools.

People are also getting fed up with the new “hierarchy of feelings” where transgender students cannot be asked to use single-stall bathrooms if they are uncomfortable using the one that matches their sex, but that instead the privacy and feelings of the girls must be sacrificed for the feelings of a few students who have been persuaded that this is their inalienable right.

'The Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis is Significant'

Gabriel Klein's tale hints at dark truth of chronic pot use on 'susceptible' young brains, doctor says

Gabriel Klein is a young man who walked into an Abbotsford High School and stabbed two young girls, one of them, Letisha Reimer, to death. Klein was a complete stranger to anyone in the school and had no interaction with the girls before attacking them. Letisha was buried yesterday with a crowd of more than a thousand people in attendance.

I live in Abbotsford, British Columbia and, in fact, the helicopter that transported the girls to the hospital flew right over my car shortly after take-off as I happened to be less than a block away. 

'The link between marijuana and psychosis is significant' says UBC psychiatrist Dr. Bill MacEwan

By Yvette Brend, CBC News 

Canadian youth have the highest rate of marijuana use in the developed world and marijuana is the most commonly-used illegal drug among Canadians aged 15 to 24 years. 

Gabriel Klein's friends say he was smoking pot every day for the past three months.

Then one day the 21-year-old changed.

A few weeks later — on Nov. 1 —  he was accused of walking into a high school and stabbing Letisha Reimer, 13, and another teen.

Klein was admitted to hospital after his arrest, certified under the Mental Health Act by one doctor and then decertified by a psychiatrist the next day, the prosecutor said.

Details about exactly what drugs Klein was using and his mental state are still emerging, but for Dr. Bill MacEwan the facts, so far, hint at the darker reality of heavy drug use for a certain percentage of chronic young pot smokers.

Homicide investigators released this photo early in the investigation, which they say shows Gabriel Klein at an undisclosed location, just hours before the fatal stabbing. (IHIT/Twitter)

While the assistant director of UBC's department of psychiatry stresses that the percentage is tiny, he and others who study the link between pot and psychosis say it should be part of the conversation.

Marijuana — framed of late as medicinal, mainstream and benign — is in common use amongst Canadian youth, who have the highest rate of pot use in the developed world for those aged 15 to 24, according to the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse.

And while most smokers who start using while their brain is developing risk impaired learning and motor skills, a tiny percentage of people who smoke pot — one to three per cent — will also experience psychosis.

Playing Russian Roulette with your brain

Dr. MacEwan says the ratio approaches 30 to 40 per cent in a sub-set of young chronic pot smokers who have other risk factors.

It's worse if the person is homeless, stressed and using a cocktail of chemicals daily.

For them, MacEwan says, it's like playing Russian roulette with their brain.

"The link between marijuana and psychosis is significant," says Dr. William MacEwan of UBC's psychiatry department. (Cliff Shim/CBC)

A youth who is smoking excessive amounts, unsure what they are smoking and using marijuana to cope with stress, are at highest risk, MacEwan said.

"Psychosis in a drug-induced state is really quite common, particularly amongst vulnerable youth such as this young man.They will often have to use drugs, particularly drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, to stay awake at night. They will often used drugs to cope with stress and those that are under really difficult situations like being homeless ... then the drugs will affect you worse."

In addition schizophrenia, unlike other mental illnesses, emerges in young adulthood — usually in the early 20s for men and later for women, and it's believed pot speeds the progression.

"Emerging evidence supports a number of associations between cannabis and psychosis/psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia," according to a 2014 review of the association between cannabis and psychosis led by Dr. Rajiv Radhakrishnan from Yale's School of Medicine.

A debate rages with many scientists saying abolishing pot would not prevent schizophrenia, and marijuana advocates deeming this a "scare tactic," claiming pot actually helps soothe anxiety and calm mental disorders.

But medical experts contend it is clear that for some smokers who start young,  heavy drug-use can precipitate psychosis,

For the lucky, it's temporary. For others, it's the first bout of a life-long struggle with schizophrenia.

"In some brains, we don't understand exactly why, we think maybe genetics or maybe trauma in the past, that these brains are then really susceptible to having the effects of drugs make them lose touch with reality," said MacEwan.

"The link between marijuana and particularly psychosis is significant." 

A protester lights a joint during a 4-20 marijuana rally on Parliament Hill. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

Some medical experts urge pot-avoidance under age 20, in case their brain has hidden vulnerabilities that will only emerge with drug use.

"Not every 14-year-old who smokes marijuana will have schizophrenia," said Dr. Romina Mizrahi, a director of the Youth Psychosis Prevention clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.

She explains a myriad of factors — from genetics to trauma history — determine the risk to an individual. 

Variables from marijuana strength, user frequency to how young they are when they start, all play a part. 

A girl smokes a joint at the 4-20 event in downtown Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, April 20, 2015. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)

Chance of psychosis 8 times higher

"If you smoke a lot of marijuana when you are young or in your teens, your chance of having psychosis later on in life is about eight times higher than other people," MacEwan said research has shown.

He suddenly changed

Klein's friends describe him as a genial "stoner."

He had no fixed address but lived at Covenant House, followed the rules and worked hard in school.

Then one night he "smoked a bowl" and told his friend Nathaniel Spidell the pot was spiked with acid or something stronger.

Spidell said his friend became fearful and paranoid.

"Everything went downhill after that. He wasn't the same person," said the 23-year-old.

From the outside, people see a person withdraw in a "fearful, angry, irritable way," said MacEwan.

"That young man's friends saying, 'oh he isn't the way he used to be' — is typical."

And that makes it worse, because the person can't relate to people who could help them.

While violence isn't the norm, it can be a result of untreated psychosis.

Klein's friends say they do not recognize the man they see in the video as Klein.

He is nothing like the friend they knew, but that's exactly what psychosis looks like. 

A stranger — perhaps even in the mirror.

    'I could just never imagine him being a violent person,' said Jordan Reid, 23 (right) standing
    with Nathaniel Spidell (left). (Kamil Karamali/CBC)

Ontario Teacher Needs a Lesson in Professionalism: DiManno

Teacher should consider career change to truck-driver, or something, with apologies to truck-drivers.

Caution: language contains descriptions of vulgar acts, etc.

Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson, who is listed on the Dunnville Secondary School’s website as an English teacher, Grades 10 through 12, allegedly instructed one of her students: “Why don’t you lick me where I fart?”


Dunnville teacher Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson was previously reprimanded for professional misconduct.  (DREAMSTIME)  

By ROSIE DIMANNO Columnist, Toronto Star

Bite your tongue, ma’am.

Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson, who is listed on the Dunnville Secondary School’s website as an English teacher, Grades 10 through 12, allegedly instructed one of her students: “Why don’t you lick me where I fart?”

That suggestion is included in two sets of charges before the Ontario College of Teachers, with Green-Johnson’s date for hearings to be set next Friday.

Some teachers we remember for the rest of our lives, because they had a profound effect on shaping young minds or instilling a love of learning or helping us navigate the curriculum. I doubt Green-Johnson’s students will ever forget her, if only for the purported yips and confirmed yaps she brought into the classroom.

This is not Green-Johnson’s first disciplinary rodeo.

In January — five years after the Grand Erie District School Board learned of troubling comments and actions involving students — the Ontario College of Teachers found she had committed professional misconduct; received a reprimand, one-month suspension (already served) and directed to complete a course (“at her own expense”) regarding “appropriate boundaries with students and appropriate classroom management.”

Green-Johnson did not contest the accusations outlined in an agreed statement of facts which “would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional’’ and “conduct unbecoming.”

Uncontested facts included:

That same month, Green-Johnson caught two male students play-wrestling outside her classroom. When one student jumped on the other’s back, Green-Johnson said: “So you like it from behind.”

In November 2011, while her students were cracking jokes about the size of a man’s penis as portrayed in a movie the class was watching, Green-Johnson “made a comment to the effect that you could not see the actor’s penis without a microscope.”

The following month, when a student asked the teacher to repeat what she’d said, Green-Johnson told the girl to “sit down or I will bop you in the nose.” To another student, she said words to the effect of “stop bitching and sit down.”

In January, 2011, Green-Johnson told her students that she had been “raped” and therefore did not trust men around her children, an assertion that “made some of her students feel uncomfortable.”

The agreed statement of facts continues: “On more than one occasion, (Green-Johnson) used the words ‘stupid’, ‘idiots’, ‘bitching’ and/or ‘ass’ ” while conducting her class.

In an incident that fall, students jesting about how much it would hurt to get hit in the groin playfully began swinging their binders at each other. In attempting to stop them Green-Johnson “made accidental contact with (one of the student’s) groin, causing him to fall to the ground in tears.”

Grand Erie superintendent Scott Sincerbox confirmed to the Star on Friday that “multiple reports” have been filed about Green-Johnson, resulting in short suspensions both paid and unpaid. Though not speaking specifically about this teacher, Sincerbox explained that the board implements a “progressive disciplinary process up to an including termination” with suspensions reported to the College.

The Star was unable to reach Green-Johnson on Friday. Sincerbox said the teacher is “not working” at this time but hasn’t been fired either.

“It’s pretty unusual for a teacher who has been found guilty of unprofessional conduct to come before us again,” says Gabrielle Barkany, spokesperson for the College. She could recall it happening only twice before.

For Green-Johnson, these are actually “notifications” — summonings to defend herself, that is — Number 3 and 4. Apart from the matter concluded by the board’s disciplinary committee in January, there were allegations heard by the College against her in 2007 but those were not substantiated.

This time ’round, there are two separate sets of allegations, thus two separate cases to be heard.

In one, relating to the 2015-16 academic year, Green-Johnson is alleged to:

Have told a student who brought coffee to class: “Get that f---ing thing out of here.”

Called a student a “bloody pedophile.”

Told a student: “I have never said this to a student before but f--- you.”

Told another: “It sounds like your ass cheeks are too close together,” after the student a made a noise by pressing his lips together.

Told a student who’d offered to buy her muffins in exchange for a passing grade: “You mean a bribe? I’d be able to shit for a week.”

Told a female student she “looked like a frumpy old lady today.”

On the second matter, Green-Johnson is alleged to have “slapped and/or hit” a male student on the head in March, told him to “grow some balls,” called him an “idiot” and discussed personal issues with a student during class even though that individual was not enrolled in the class.

Green-Johnson was suspended for one day without pay in May and six days without pay in February as a result of recent allegations, though it’s not clear specifically which ones.

School boards can fire teachers. The College can revoke their teaching certificate.

Green-Johnson, holy terror, seems not to have learned her lessons at all.

She sounds like a perfect candidate for the Ontario Dep't of Education to put in charge of sex education.

‘They Should be Shot!’ Pastor Takes Stand on BLM Protesters Kneeling During US Anthem

The problem here boils down to American hyper-patriotism and Christian apostasy. It appears Pastor Joyner's zeal for America greatly exceeds his zeal for Jesus Christ. Lining dissidents up against a wall and shooting them is worthy of militant Islam or Nazi Germany not a Christian, excuse me - post-Christian society like the USA.


San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. © Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports / Reuters

An Alabama pastor caused controversy at a local high school football game, saying players who don’t stand for the US national anthem should be shot. His remarks come in the wake of US sports stars’ protests against police brutality.

Pastor Allen Joyner made the remarks as he addressed the crowd at a Friday night football game at McKenzie High School in Butler County. 

“If you don't want to stand for the national anthem, you can line up over there by the fence and let our military personnel take a few shots at you since they're taking shots for you,” the announcer said at the game, according to Denise Crowley-Whitfield who posted what happened on Facebook, the Alabama-based publication AL.com reported.

His remarks led to “crazy cheering” from the stands, as the local fans seemed to endorse his statement. However, not everyone was as enthusiastic regarding Joyner’s advice to those unwilling to stand during the national anthem. 

“Patriotism should be a part of school events but threats of shooting people who aren't patriotic, even in jest, have no place at a school,” Butler County Schools Superintendent Amy Bryan told AL.com. “Threats of violence are a violation of school policy and certainly not condoned by the school board.” 

I would hope, Superintendent Bryan, that you would ban Pastor Joyner from ever speaking again at any school event in your district.

The Sweet Home Baptist Church, of which Joyner is a member, supported the pastor’s comments, saying they were “taken out of context and misquoted,” in a post on Facebook. However, the church later deleted the post from the social media platform.

The debate about whether to stand while ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is being played was started by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” he told nfl.com, after a match with the Green Bay Packers on August 27.

“To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder,” he added.

On Sunday, four Miami Dolphins players knelt while the national anthem was being played before a match with the Seattle Seahawks.

“It's not about the symbology [sic] that people are mad about. It’s the message and the people who are saying it,” said Arian Foster, one of the players who refused to stand.

“Because if it's a knee that people are upset about, every Sunday people of faith take a knee to give thanks to their Lord and savior, whatever faith or whatever religion they are,” he added speaking to reporters after the game.

Ah, what? Giving thanks to the Lord and dissing the national anthem are not quite the same thing. Don't give up your day job, Mr Foster.

However, the four players Michael Thomas, Jelani Jenkins, Kenny Stills and Foster received criticism from large sections of the US public for carrying out their protest on Sunday, which was the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the USA.

“People say it is not the time to do it, then when is the time? It is never the time in someone else’s eyes because they will always feel like it’s good enough and it’s not. And that is the beautiful thing about this country that if someone doesn’t think that it is good enough they have their right and all we are doing is exercising that right,” Foster concluded.

When is the time to do it? Certainly not on a day when you are commemorating the deaths of thousands of people in the worst act of terrorism since Pearl Harbor. The victims and especially the police and fire-fighters who risked and/or sacrificed their lives should be honored not dismissed like it's any other day.