Leading From The Heart

by Tracy Rosen, teaching & consulting since 1996, blogging about it here since 2007. All views are my own and you should take them with a grain of salt, I do.

Tag: freedom

  • Re-post: Free to be a princess and run with the wind…

    I found this over at Flip Flopping Joy.

    I used to love love love Free to be… You and Me as a child. The stories still hold life lessons.

    Enjoy. And may you always run freely with the wind.

  • Montreal may ban insults to police

    The most ridiculous banning image I could find. Click for source.
    The most ridiculous banning image I could find. Click for source.

    Montreal may ban insults to police. Story from cbc.ca.

    er… what do you think of this?

    Me? I think it’s wrong. Definitely, people should respect others – regardless of the role(s) they play in society.

    But last I heard it wasn’t against the law to act jerky – and I do consider people who insult others by calling them names, by slandering them, by being generally rude to them – to be acting jerky.

    Can we start legislating jerkiness? Uh uh.

    I’ve been called names before, both personally and professionally. I teach high school students, it comes with the profession. I’m sure I haven’t been met with the extreme prejudice that police officers have been met with, at least not professionally. I have personally though, I’m Jewish and I have definitely met and been insulted by people who didn’t like me because of it.

    Jerky behaviour may suck, may hurt. But it sure shouldn’t be legislated against. And wait a second, while we’re at it – why in the world should we only ban insults against police? If we’re going to be banning insults, let’s ban them across the board. The next time a student or his/her parent calls me a, well, not a witch but close, I’m going to yell – citizen’s arrest!

    Now really.