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Kilkrazy wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:I see.

So, posit the following situation. Some students and a teacher are on a field trip to study the distribution of orchids in deciduous forest peripheries.

A child is stung by a bee and goes into anaphylactic shock. Should the teacher ignore the child's Epipen because this is a botany field trip?

In the US a teacher would not"pardon the pun" touch the situation due to liability. Next question.

They would if the parents had signed a liability waiver.

Next answer.

No, there would be no liability form to sign.
Next question.


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Stormrider wrote:Frazz, you assume that HS students in Detrot actually know what the Stars and Bars are. They probably don't.

Good point.

Free Speech includes "insensitive speech" too.

Evidently it doesn't.

Frazzled wrote:No, there would be no liability form to sign.

Have you ever been on a field trip? Kids bring home a stack of papers, and at least one of them is a liability waiver. That, or the parents sign one at the beginning of the year that covers later trips.

And free speech does cover insensitive speech, as the teacher was put on leave. As for the Stars and bars, ignorance is not an excuse for offense once informed of the meaning of the offending event. If I were to eat pork in front of someone who was vegetarian, told me of their beliefs and asked me to stop because it offended their beliefs, if I were to continue eating that goes from being unaware of the event to being aware and rude.

Freedom of blah...

It's a myth!

Frazzled wrote:

Free Speech includes "insensitive speech" too.

Evidently it doesn't.

Free Speech also doesn't include suggesting that we waste time by writing about stuff we want for Christmas when the teacher asks for suggestions. Apparantly offering that suggestion when 3 out of 45 students don't celebrate Christmas is considered trying to start a riot and is punishable by receiving 1 day of ISS and being told that one is too stupid to have an opinion because wanting to write about stuff you want for Christmas is 'offensive' to those who don't practice it.

Freedom of THREAD NECRONISATION!!!!11