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johnwk
02-23-2019, 08:09 AM
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This is absolutely insane! LINK (https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2019/02/21/students-at-carlton-palmer-paint-motivational-messages-in-bathrooms)

”LAKELAND, Fla. — A small group of students at Carlton Palmore Elementary in Lakeland have painted motivational messages on bathroom stalls. The painting project was done with the assistance of their art teacher.”

Now we have teachers in our public schools, encouraging children to deface public property with graffiti called "motivational messages" which apparently justifies the graffiti.

So, it’s ok to write on bathroom walls if the teacher approves of the graffiti message? And what happens when these kids, after being taught to write on bathroom walls, get caught writing their motivational messages on the bathroom walls of a movie theater or other private business. Is this not what they are being taught to do?

JWK

The unavoidable truth is, the Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist plan for “free” college tuition will be paid for by taxing millions of college graduates who worked for and paid their own way through college and are now trying to finance their own economic needs.

juleswin
02-23-2019, 08:34 AM
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This is absolutely insane! LINK (https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2019/02/21/students-at-carlton-palmer-paint-motivational-messages-in-bathrooms)

”LAKELAND, Fla. — A small group of students at Carlton Palmore Elementary in Lakeland have painted motivational messages on bathroom stalls. The painting project was done with the assistance of their art teacher.”

Now we have teachers in our public schools, encouraging children to deface public property with graffiti called "motivational messages" which apparently justifies the graffiti.

So, it’s ok to write on bathroom walls if the teacher approves of the graffiti message? And what happens when these kids, after being taught to write on bathroom walls, get caught writing their motivational messages on the bathroom walls of a movie theater or other private business. Is this not what they are being taught to do?

JWK

The unavoidable truth is, the Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist plan for “free” college tuition will be paid for by taxing millions of college graduates who worked for and paid their own way through college and are now trying to finance their own economic needs.

You are dealing with kids who are rebeling against authority. The way I look at it, the ingenious plan could actually work in turning kids off from doing graffiti. You see, highschool kids who generally engage in graffiti are rebelling against authority, these are the kind of kids who will go out of their way to defy authority. To these kids, a teacher authoritzing graffiti essentially takes the shine off doing graffiti.

Yes the goodie two shoes in the crowd would take over this art but unlike the rebelling teens, they would stop when told to. So yea, I can see the rationale in installing this rule and I can see it working to reduce overall graffiti in the school. If I was the teacher, I wouldn't just stop with this, I will seek the rebelling kids out, hand them meaningless cert for their art and then honour them in front of a small assembly of nerds.

Superfluous Man
02-23-2019, 08:36 AM
Since the owners of the property that's getting painted are behind this, how is it defacing of property? Do I not have the right to paint what I want on my own bathroom walls?

johnwk
02-23-2019, 10:41 AM
Since the owners of the property that's getting painted are behind this, how is it defacing of property? Do I not have the right to paint what I want on my own bathroom walls?



The teachers own the school?

Are you a product of a government school education/indoctrination?


JWK


Civil rights ought not be based upon the personal desires of sexual deviants who now impinge upon the inalienable right of mankind being free to mutually agree in their contracts and associations.

Superfluous Man
02-23-2019, 11:06 AM
The teachers own the school?


The teachers and staff represent the owners of the schools.

I am against public school. But that's a rabbit trail. The existence of public schools is not what you were addressing in the OP. Given their existence, their owner is the state, and their hired staff represent that owner. In this case, it wasn't just a single rogue teacher, but a schoolwide program that had the approval of the principal. Given that the people that the owner of the school, the state, tasked to maintain and decorate the walls of the building have asked these kids to decorate them this way, I don't see how you can say that the kids are defacing property. By that reasoning, every single thing anybody does, whether student, teacher, principal, janitor, or taxpayer, did to change the appearance of any walls in a school, including painting over old graffiti with a fresh clean coat of paint, would also be defacing property. It makes no sense.

oyarde
02-23-2019, 11:56 AM
I would prefer not to pay property tax to support pulik skools . If I am paying it I prefer clean and no graffiti on the public property I am funding . If society collapses I could be over there seeing if there is anything I can use for defense of my base of operations and I want it tidy .