Some of these quotes are funny, I want to meet this teacher.



TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage.
Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo's version of events but said he took the flag Monday because "white kids" might have hurt the 16-year- old. He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it.

Camelo said he was changing into gym clothes at Minico High School in Rupert when Straatman told him, "Give me the flag."

"I said, 'What's the problem?'" Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The Times-News of Twin Falls. "He said, 'The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.' He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can."

Camelo said that Straatman told him the flag would be returned at the end of the school day, but that Straatman taunted him instead.

"I asked, 'Where is my flag?'" Camelo said. "He said, 'What, the U.S. flag?' I said, 'No, the one for Mexico.' But he wouldn't give it to me."

Camelo said he then took the undamaged flag out of the garbage. He said he's been contacted by the American Civil Liberties Union and is considering a lawsuit against Straatman.

Camelo and others brought Mexican flags to the south-central Idaho school to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the May 5 recognition of Mexico's victory over the French army on that day in 1862. About a third of the student body is Hispanic.

Straatman denied saying the words Camelo attributed to him, and said the student may have misunderstood him because of his poor English skills. He said he took the flag from Camelo after Camelo had been waving it in the school gym, and denied withholding it later.

"I had to confiscate it so it wouldn't escalate any problems in class," Straatman told The Times-News. "We're worried about that stuff all the time. We always have kids saying stuff to each other, and we have a lot of fights between kids."

Scott Rogers, superintendent of the Minidoka County Joint School District, said an investigation has been started. He said he could not comment specifically about personnel decisions.

"We believe in nondiscriminatory practices and cultural sensitivity," he said. "We train for that and talk about that. If there is a teacher making derogatory comments we don't approve of that. We also don't approve of a student disrupting the classroom."

Rogers said he was at the school early Wednesday and that the school was quiet. He said he noticed a few students wearing clothing in the colors of the Mexican flag—red, white and green—in protest of Monday's incident.

HA! The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.' He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can." thats funny i would laugh but im mexican lol, at work all the mexicans come up to me and talk to me in spanish and i say u speak english? they say oh i thought u were mexican i say i am, then they say u should learn spanish i was like why we live in america we speak english here.....but it never gets past that lol, but good find! Late

LMAO bro I love you in a non-homosexual way, I don't care if they can speak Spanish I just HATE it when they can't speak English as well, its like why would you come here live here for YEARS and not learn the countries native language? Even worse is when they grow up here and don't know English and have to have a translator all the time....


But anyway that teacher is pretty much screwed, as soon as parents get involved the school board will crack in seconds and he will be sent packing.

thanks! rite back at ya! lol but for real yeah that shiet sux and then lots live together and arnt legal so they dont pay taxes, most dont get checks get paid under the table,and we gotta pay taxes from our checks and irs to pay for stuff like roads and stuff, but all they can do is buy bud light and listen to there music thumpin on there crappy ass steroes at 2am in the friggin mornin when i have to get up at 5 to goto work, dumb