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Profile Information
- First Name:
- Charles
- Last Name:
- Haynes
- Hometown:
- Alexandria, Virginia
- School/Organization Name:
- First Amendment Center
- Job Title:
- Senior Scholar
- City:
- Washington, DC
- State:
- DC
- My Story:
- For 20 years I have worked on religious liberty issues, with a special focus on religion and public schools. Early in my career, I taught briefly in public and private secondary schools -- and then on the college level for six years.
- My Ideal School is a Place Where:
- Leadership is shared, everyone has a voice, and the watchwords are compassion and service.
- My Religious Views:
- "Being is dying by loving."
- My Political Views:
- As a young man, I was influenced by the idealism of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Today I look for leaders who are committed to social justice.
- My Favorite Freedom:
- liberty of conscience
- My Personal Heroes:
- Roger Williams, James Madison, Ida Wells, Fredrico Garcia Lorca, Robert F. Kennedy, Christopher Wilson
- My Personal Motto:
- Love is service in action
- My Favorite Journey:
- The west coast of Scotland
- Recommended Reading:
- A Seat at the Table, Huston Smith
The Case for Civility, Os Guinness
The First Liberty, William Lee Miller
The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
- Recommended Web sites:
- www.firstamendmentcenter.org
www.meherfund.org
www.character.org
- Quotable:
- "If we don't change directions, we'll end up where we're going."
Reuben Snake
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters." Benjamin Franklin
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Please allocate 18 minutes of your day to watch the video I just added, about the brain and Jill Taylor's stroke. It is also about nirvana, and human consciousness, and all the riddles we have wrestled with for each of our respective times on this earth. I want to know what you think of it.
Sam Chaltain said you could help me figure out how to lay my hands on the history book of FA documents, using the Paideia method, the FAC published a few years back. Hoping you can help! (I'm interested for an article I'm working on for Journalism Education Today but also for a class I'm developing, tentatively entitled:"Communication Rights & Responsibilities: The Law & Ethics of the First Amendment".
Meanwhile, glad to see you on the network! Our local 6,000-circ daily runs you religiously (argh;sorry!) so I'm a big fan! I'm also a 2004 alum of the FAC's inaugural FA Institute for media advisers in Nashvegas. What a great week that was...
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Cynthia
Thanks!
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Is this teacher's guide readily available to teachers? By what route? (I didn't see it on Amazon but would like to suggest it as a teaching resource.)
Thanks again!
Cynthia
Thanks!
Cynthia
best,
Kate Q
I missed you today at lunch and had hoped to bend your ear for a few minutes. As a high schoolprincipal 4 years ago I had a troubling experience that continues to haunt me.
I had a student, model student, bright, fun, engaging, talented, and of the highest character. During her 9th grade year her mother passed away, her absent father moved in from Las Vegas to take over raising her. Dad is a card carrying, motorcycle riding, patch wearing Hells Angel. In fact he is a high ranking member. When he showed up at the school our Resource Deputy bristled and did a background check. As it turned out he was under indictment by a grand jury over beating another rival biker to death with a motorcycle helmet. he wanted to come to school for basketball games, his daughter was a member of the pep band. Our resource officer, and the sheriff's gang task force commander agreed, that dad wearing his colors at school at a predictable time, when the rival gang could confront him when he was on his own, created a potentially dangerous situation.
I asked dad if he could park his bike down the street and take off his colors when he came on campus. His response was that he would be in grave danger from his own club members if he did so, and that he couldn't do so.
It broke my heart, but I stuck to the recommendation. The ACLU rattled their saber at us for a time, but then dropped this isssue.
The girl graduated this spring and is heading off to college with a full ride scholarship courtesy of Bill and Melinda Gates, dad is currently serving 25 to life.
My continued distress comes from my stopping a father from participating in his daughters education at a time when she desperately need him to do so. I was unable to negotiate a "Common Ground". How could I have better navigated the issue?
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