Hence the look on his face: sort of a deer caught in the windshield look.
What they need is a beam-me-up-Scotty dog.

His mistake was putting it in writing. But how did they know that he did it? Did he sign the thing?
Was he doing it just so he'd have less to carry, I wonder?

That's Old Testament.
According to the New Testament, you can now eat shrimp and not have to be circumcised.

Loved the ultrasound. I wonder if the doctor told her she'd be having twins.

Oh, geez. Lose the guy on the video, and it would have been OK.

Calling it a male pregnancy is quite a misnomer. This could possibly as easily happen to a woman. I wonder if they would have identified it as such, though?

The point is, he wasn't teaching anything about those other cultures, and he refused to take down the flags when asked by his principal - you don't piss off your boss, whether they're right or wrong.

My only thought was that he should have been representing ALL the flags of the world, and not just 3 - Mexico, China, and the UN, on a PERMANENT basis. That's what got him in trouble.

Simply hanging a flag in a classroom is hardly teaching about other cultures.

And get over your own politics - we're surrounded by all types of politics, rules, and regulations that are just plain silly every day at work or wherever.

It doesn't say anything about terrorists or supporting US troops anywhere in the article. Americans have long been obsessed with their flags and flag rules since 1776.

Yeah, seems familiar. But it could be just a similarly-themed one. After all, comics are known to repeat material in subtly different ways.

If you read the article, the flags had nothing to do with the curriculum, either current or upcoming. And I don't believe they mentioned anything evil or subversive about the flags. They just said that the flags weren't relevant to the curriculum.

In the USA, a lot of classrooms have US flags - I don't know if they all do. Hanging other flags in the class perpetually is considered a no-no. The teacher didn't seem to have a purpose in hanging the other flags, but this is apparently an affront to the US flag.

Just like when you hang your flag and the flag of another country, the etiquette is to hang your flag above the other country's flag. Rules, rules.

If he could have shown a reason for hanging those two flags, then he may have been OK. As I said before, why just those countries? Why not Canada, which is a lot closer than China. Why not the rest of the world?

What if he had the flag of Palestine or Israel, with no relation to the course material being taught? Would you perhaps wonder if the teacher were able to be impartial? Would you start to wonder about their political leanings?

The schoolroom should be un-political as much as possible. To simply label the school authorities as gestapo wannabes in this case without even reading the article is a little reactionary.

That is so depressing.
Are they going to have her dance for us, as well?

Also in Barry's defence, Tiger's balls are much smaller.

The guy on the left doesn't have a moustache.

It's too vague to be funny.
As for the other posters, some were OK; the sentences were too long in others.
I prefer my humour where I don't have to think.

It doesn't appear that he was hanging all the flags of the world. To compare it to astronomy, say the teacher only put up globes of Mars and Venus - why exclude the other planets? What if the teacher refused to acknowledge Pluto as a planet? Wait...bad example.

Could there be a political agenda behind his choice of flags? Why China? Why not Canada? Why not Lebanon, Afghanistan, Brazil, or Italy?

There are posters with all the flags of the world - why did he not display one of these, and maybe make some game like "find the flag" day?

Admittedly, it's a stupid thing for the school to worry about, but why would he as a teacher want to lose his job over it? I question his motivation.

That's really sad.

Third from the left of the bottom.
Didn't know it was an Olympic sport.

Oh, never mind - must be wrestling.