Guest Viewpoint: Why teachers don't teach about peace

Binghamton Press and Sun Bulletin ^ | 11/19/02 | Jack Gilroy

[Phantom Lord]

In a few weeks or months the United States will probably begin bombing the Iraqi people. It should be a teachable moment for teachers to address peace. It won't happen.

Only a few teachers will have debates on the impending war, and only a few will attempt to balance the overwhelming American cultural penchant for vengeance and violence.

[Phantom Lord]

Binghamton Bump

[Phantom Lord]

Looney Educator Bump

[lepton]

W.E. DuBois

The inclusion of this name on the list is telling. He wasn't against wholesale slaughter - as long as it was the 'right people'. He enthusiastically supported the killing of millions - knowingly - who opposed communism. A war might have stopped that.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I thought his named sounded familiar, so "googled" him.

Sure enough, Gilroy has an Ithaca connection. From his website:

Jack is also advising the Ithaca, NY Society of Friends as they develop a Peace Academy on the edge of the Cornell campus.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[HELLRAISER II]

In reality teachers probably won't teach either reason's for peace or for War because they don't wish to be called in the limelight by some whacko peacenik like the one that wrote this article. Any teacher or American Citizen that is not blind can see that we have little choice but to destroy the Terrorist threats from? You guessed it Muslims the so called Religion of Peace, if you did get one of these teachers to really state their opion the majority would vote to go kick @ss not because of P.C. but because it's the right thing to do.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The American answer to violence is violence.

A bank robber is interrupted by the sound of a police car pulling up at the bank. He decides to take a group of hostages. One of the policeman outside is an expert marksman and he has a high-powered rifle in the trunk. The police call the robber at the bank and tell him to give himself up. He responds that he will shoot a hostage every ten minutes unless he is allowed to escape with his loot. He shoots the first hostage, a young girl. Ten minutes later, he shoots her brother. The marksman has the robber in his sights. But he definitely should not shoot. The answer to violence is not violence. The robber kills a nun, and checks his watch.

[mc5cents]

Hey Gilroy, here, read this book:

[NativeNewYorker]

Gilroy is an Endwell resident and retired high school teacher.

So after a career on the public payroll, and living off public funds now, in an isolated buolic rural area, this tete du merde wants to lecture the WORLD on how it should maintain itself.

And the local Gannett fishwrap gives him a free platform.

[general_re]

Professor Barbara Regenspan of Binghamton University, graduate students and some local teachers are forming Teachers for Peace...

If she's not careful, a tenured position at Cornell could be in the cards for her...

[NativeNewYorker]

That link is friggin' scary. Lots of tax money being spent to promote bed-wetting socialism to kids. Ick.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Professor Barbara Regenspan of Binghamton University...

I should have known.

According to Google, Regenspan may teach in Binghamton, but she lives in Ithaca.

Another example of the City of Evil seeping out and infecting the rest of the Finger Lakes like a virus.

[Soaring Feather]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

bump

[Phantom Lord]

I have little to no sympathy, make that NO sympathy for the people of the southern tier. Year after year they endure tax hike after tax hike coupled with massive job flight out of the area. They never do anything to reverse course and continually clamor for more and more government. I left Endicott (next to Binghamton) in 1991 for college, and upon graduating college in 1996 i moved directly to Raleigh NC. I got the hell out and I advise everyone else still left up there to do the same.

After years of telling my brother he was wasting time and his life living in Binghamton he has finally wised up and is moving to NC in a month.

[Renegade]

My GOOD liberal friend teaches with me and has a son in the Marines. HE organizes peace marches and has "don't go to war" posters all over his door.
My door on the other hand has pictures of the World trade Center before and after , and the historical picture of the firemen raising the flag over the rubble . "We Will Never Forget" is the theme.
In my classroom is a blow up rubber Earth . Taped to the globe is a " SMACK IRAQ " message in the appropiate country . Anyone who wishes is allowed to whack the globe on the way in or out of the room.
The students in my classrom also can be heard down the end of the hallway during the morning flag salute with emphasis on ONE COUNTRY and UNDER GOD.

[LiteKeeper]

Must be a different breed of Christian from me. I think he has forgotten a few relevant passages of Scripture, not the least of which is Romans 13.

[goodnesswins]

What grade do you teach, and WHERE? LUCKY students.

[dpa5923]

Smedley Butler, who later became Commandant of the Marine Corps

Although a highly decorated Marine Officer (twice awarded the MOH) and in charge of the "War on Booze" for the city of Philadelphia in the 1920's, Gen Butler was never a Marine Corps Commandant.

 

COMMANDANTS OF THE MARINE CORPS
1st Commandant	Samuel Nicholas	28 Nov 1775 -- August 1783
2d Commandant	William Ward Burrows	12 Jul   1798 --  6 Mar 1804
3d Commandant	Franklin Wharton	7 Mar 1804 --  1 Sep 1818
4th Commandant	Anthony Gale	3 Mar 1819 -- 8 Oct 1820
5th Commandant	Archibald Henderson	17 Oct 1820 --  6 Jan 1859
6th Commandant	John Harris	7 Jan 1859 -- 1 May 1864
7th Commandant	Jacob Zeilin	10 Jun 1864 -- 31 Oct 1876
8th Commandant	Charles Grymes McCawley	1 Nov 1876 -- 29 Jan 1891
9th Commandant	Charles Heywood	30 Jun 1891 --  2 Oct 1903
10th Commandant	George Frank Elliott	3 Oct   1903 -- 30 Nov 1910
11th Commandant	William Phillips Biddle	3 Feb 1911 -- 24 Feb 1914
12th Commandant	George Barnett	25 Feb 1914 -- 30 Jun 1920
13th Commandant	John Archer Lejeune	1 Jul  1920 --  4 Mar 1929
14th Commandant	Wendell Cushing Neville	5 Mar 1929 --  8 Jul 1930
15th Commandant	Ben Hebard Fuller	9 Jul 1930 -- 28 Feb 1934
16th Commandant	John Henry Russell, Jr.	1 Mar 1934 -- 30 Nov 1936
17th Commandant	Thomas Holcomb	1 Dec 1936 -- 31 Dec 1943
18th Commandant	Alexander Archer Vandegrift	1 Jan 1944 -- 31 Dec 1947
19th Commandant	Clifton Bledsoe Cates	1 Jan 1948 -- 31 Dec 1951
20th Commandant	Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr.	1 Jan 1952 -- 31 Dec 1955
21st Commandant	Randolph McCall Pate	1 Jan 1956 -- 31 Dec 1959
22d Commandant	David Monroe Shoup	1 Jan 1960 -- 31 Dec 1963
23d Commandant	Wallace Martin Greene, Jr.	1 Jan 1964 -- 31 Dec 1967
24th Commandant	Leonard Fielding Chapman, Jr.	1 Jan 1968 -- 31 Dec 1971
25th Commandant	Robert Everton Cushman, Jr.	1 Jan 1972 -- 30 Jun 1975
26th Commandant	Louis Hugh Wilson	1 Jul 1975 -- 30 Jun 1979
27th Commandant	Robert Hilliard Barrow	1 Jul 1979 -- 30 Jun 1983
28th Commandant	Paul Xavier Kelley	1 Jul 1983 -- 30 Jun 1987
29th Commandant	Alfred Mason Gray, Jr.	1 Jul 1987 -- 30 Jun 1991
30th Commandant	Carl Epting Mundy, Jr.	1 Jul 1991 -- 30 Jun 1995
31st Commandant	Charles Chandler Krulak	1 Jul 1995 -- 30 Jun 1999
32d Commandant	James Logan Jones	1 Jul 1999 -- Present

[jigsaw]

It's sad to see people who are soooooo damn dumb that they don't even realize they're dumb.

Exhibit #1: Jack Gilroy.