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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTeacher Resigns After Getting Death Threats For Asking Students To Turn MAGA Shirts Inside Out
A high school teacher resigned Thursday following a controversy after she told two students to turn their "Make America Great Again" t-shirts inside out.
Lyn Orletsky, a high school math teacher in Georgia's Cherokee County Public Schools, said she is resigning because she has received hate mail and death threats from all over the country after a video surfaced showing her asking the students to hide the pro-Trump slogan, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"After attacks on my character and threats on my life, I have made the decision to resign from my teaching position at River Ridge High School," Orletsky told the AJC. "While in hindsight I would have handled the situation differently, the outcry over this incident has been disproportionate to the event itself."
Orletsky told the students to remove the slogan because it was like "wearing a swastika," after white supremacists used it during the violent rally in Charlottesville, Va.
In an interview with AJC, Orletsky said the request to the students to remove the slogan was not because of President Trump, who coined the slogan and used it throughout his campaign, but because it has been "appropriated" by Neo-Nazi groups.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teacher-at-center-of-maga-controversy-resigns-after-death-threats/ar-AAtJ7DH?li=BBnbfcL
Lyn Orletsky, a high school math teacher in Georgia's Cherokee County Public Schools, said she is resigning because she has received hate mail and death threats from all over the country after a video surfaced showing her asking the students to hide the pro-Trump slogan, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"After attacks on my character and threats on my life, I have made the decision to resign from my teaching position at River Ridge High School," Orletsky told the AJC. "While in hindsight I would have handled the situation differently, the outcry over this incident has been disproportionate to the event itself."
Orletsky told the students to remove the slogan because it was like "wearing a swastika," after white supremacists used it during the violent rally in Charlottesville, Va.
In an interview with AJC, Orletsky said the request to the students to remove the slogan was not because of President Trump, who coined the slogan and used it throughout his campaign, but because it has been "appropriated" by Neo-Nazi groups.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teacher-at-center-of-maga-controversy-resigns-after-death-threats/ar-AAtJ7DH?li=BBnbfcL
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Teacher Resigns After Getting Death Threats For Asking Students To Turn MAGA Shirts Inside Out (Original Post)
Initech
Oct 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. Nazis will kill you if you defy them.
MAGA fans are Nazis, we need to accept this.
unblock
(52,196 posts)2. "it's not like a swastika at all! quit saying that or we'll kill you!" said the brownshirts....
samnsara
(17,616 posts)3. there should be a school rule...
..my god when I was in high school they even measured my F-ing skirt!