Teacher Tells Student to Turn Yankee Shirt Inside Out

At first I laughed at this article because there's no secret about the sincere, unusual and overwhelming emotional connection to your team when you are a Red Sox or Yankee fan. Anyone who's been to a live game can only say the blood runs thicker and hotter than at almost any other venue you could attend in your life. If you can't take it, don't go to the game.

"But," with the shadow of steroid use already casting gloom on this once glorified sport, to hear of a teacher, someone professionally responsible for instilling self worth and confidence, to of done such a thing? This is really a disturbing story. Just the idea alone that this 9 year old boy is following a sport, portraying his enthusiasm for his team and hopefully a love of the game vs. other "negative opportunities" he surely will be faced with, somehow is the very thing that causes him humiliation? What a really bad image of this mans character. I've been to games, but come on, picking on a kid, away from the field, in a classroom no less?

Firing him won't change the fact that he's a die hard fan, but there are limits. I was teased as a child over my first name and as an adult I still remember the torment of it. It's hard enough just to be a kid these days, much less have a teacher you are confined in a room with to cause you to be the pink elephant in that same room. I too am 100% devoted to the Red Sox and am proud of those boys as I have been for 32 years now. I can't imagine the likes of Varitek, Ortiz, Lowell, Youk, Drew.....anyone to do with that organization thinking this type of support spreads the love of the game.

Shame on you Mr. Teacher. Perhaps the Yankee's can throw in an extra team jersey for you to wear for a day.....see how you like it!

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The teacher's behavior was unacceptable and inappropriate. I believe that, if the case turns out to be what this article has made it, he should be fired. He would be fired for pushing his religious beliefs on a student, and he should be fired for his recent actions.

That might sound extreme, but it isn't. If you do not draw the line there, then where do you draw it? At what colors to wear? Who to hang out with? Sexual preference? Religion? If school systems do not establish an early margin, then there will be no margin at all.

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This isn't cute or funny. This story is creepy and so is the teacher.

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I believe that the teacher took his love way to far. He should be supportive of the student under any circumstance and not require a student to turn his shirt inside out, in an elementry school the child will be teased. And most likely fairly ruthlessly.

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In the meantime... while this teacher is waiting to be fired (or not)... he should be allowed back in the classroom. (Wait a minute before you flame me... hear me out...)

And a volunteer parent (I'll be the first to volunteer) can stand outside that room. As each student walks past, he or she is handed Yankee clothing - hat, shirt, jacket/sweatshirt, little face tattoo, whatever he/she desires, and as MUCH as he/she desires.

And make the teacher stand up there with HIS Red Sox shirt turned inside out, and all his RS paraphernalia turned around, so he can't see it.

See how he likes it. Bet he remembers THAT more than firing.

And the kids will learn a lesson in solidarity.

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I'm glad the teacher is passionate about sports, but he seems to have forgotten that his students might also be passionate. By stepping all over that passion he should somehow be disiplined. If for nothing more then wasting valuble education time with nonsense.

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This is easy. Make the teacher wear a Yankees shirt/Jersey to school!

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In a world that the Indians were thrown out of their own tepees, the Mexicans, the Chinese, the "Japs", the colored people, the Jews and the Irish were treated for many years like inferior species just because of the color of their skin, in this crazy and nuttily unfair world, it doesn't seem to me as "outrageous" as it does to you that even a teacher discriminates against a fourth-grader for his favorite shirt color and team. Of course the teacher is crazy. But is this the sensible society to judge him? In my understanding the teacher is just another victim of the lunacy we all share in a world of social division, discrimination of all kinds and ongoing judgement for our own neighbors and fellow man. Either one takes upon them this kind of discrimination or impose it against others, they are both victims of the same dark energy, both just the different sides of the same coin. He who is righteous shall put the first stone. Are you not tired of perpetuating war and fighting each other? Aren't you tired of blaming the lunacy we're all contributing in to others? Aren't you tired of viewing our inner issues as external threats? What is going to be the lesson for this fourth-grader? "Our society's innocence and perfect balance is disturbed by some bad teachers who should be lynched so that we can look innocent"?

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