No charges for teacher Dan Holden but he won’t return to teaching until the Jefferson County school district decides whether he violated school rules with his unorthodox lesson on freedom of speech.

Back in August, a Louisville teacher, Dan Holden, burned two Americans flags in school claiming he was just trying to get his students to think.

Stuart Middle School seventh-graders were asked to write about what they saw in their classroom August 18th when teacher Dan Holden burned U.S. flags. Their statements were included in the arson investigation file released yesterday. Names were not included because the students are juveniles:
Courier-Journal.com

  • "In social studies on Friday Mr. Holden took a lighter to the America (sic) flag and he burned it to get a reaction from us. Then he told us to go for homework ask are (sic) parents what they thought."

  • Holden "walked in and grabbed a lighter and the flag and caught the flag on fire then told us to right (sic) down what we thought so we did. Then he told us to go home and tell are (sic) parents and wright (sic) down what they said. Then class was over."
  • "Mr. Holden was doing an experiment and wanted us to wright (sic) actual fillings (sic) of how we felt of him burning the flag. So it was just a little social studys (sic) activity."

    • Just in case you don’t know what sic means: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim.

    It’s abundantly clear that what they really need is additional English classes.

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    September 21, 2006

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