Tempers flare over Rancho Cotate club

The Press Democrat ^ | December 22, 2003 | ROBERT DIGITALE

[Syncro]

Quotes from article:

Forty of the school's faculty, meanwhile, signed a letter objecting to the actions of the club, including a flier the club produced urging students to "take a stand against the liberal traitors who call themselves teachers."

Teachers insist the club has accused them without any evidence of instruction that is biased against conservative views. (uh huh...lol) And they objected to the club flier that urged students to report to a "conservative hot line" any "un-American comments" by teachers.

Bold and red are my doing

[VMI70]

"The Conservative Club has about 50 members at the 2,000-student school."

50 out of 2000=2.5%

I hope that there are other conservatives who did not join.

[ZOOKER]

Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?

[steve8714]

"He's a righteous dude!"

[Syncro]

Hay, at least they have a conservative club.

How many other High Schools do?

This is a very liberal area and pretty much a bedroom community.

I imagine there are some "closet conservatives" that need to come out.

50 out of 2000=2.5%

Maybe they can apply for funds for being a minority group...

:>)

[Syncro]

He took a day off...

[TigersEye]

"To me that harkens back to McCarthyism," said business and computer teacher Trudy Nye.

But that's a good thing Trudy. Communism doesn't mix with what this country is about. It's gotta be one or the other; you can't have some kind of funky blend of Marxist Republicanism. So we're going to get rid of communism. One old biddy at a time.

[highlander_UW]

Science teacher Mark Alton agreed and asked, "Who gets to decide if someone is a traitor or not?"

Well, he's the teacher. Is he suggesting that there are no standards by which one could possibly be deemed a traitor? Perhaps he could shell out for a dictionary to learn...ya know...like set an example for the students.

[freebilly]

Club members, who number about 50 and meet once a week, counter that the educators are belittling them before other students and said two teachers failed to take action when their club leader was threatened -- an allegation the school principal rejected.

Of course if the student who was belittled by a teacher was black, hispanic, Indian, or gay the administration would have held an investigation, and the teachers would have already been suspended without pay.

[Syncro]

Yep use incrementalizm as they did to get where they are now.

[GSWarrior]

Point your finger at someone and say bang and you are facing weeks of suspension.

Lord help you if a butter knife ends up in the back seat of your car.

Draw a picture of Army combat and face the scorn of your peers.

Apparently threatening a conservative student with physical harm isn't on this school's zero tolerance list.

[talleyman]

Bump!

[sauropod]

It does look like this club is a little out of bounds for how they criticize.

Refinement is needed.

[BurbankKarl]

the conservative hotline...haha..is that some kids cell phone?

[swaimh]

We have one. Here's our webpage:

http://www.ncssmtars.20megsfree.com/

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Teenage Republicans (hence NCSSMTARS)

[Darksheare]

Hold a door open for a woman and you're 'sexually harrassing her'.
Make the mistake of smiling at a woman and you must be leering at her.
Be one of her multiple bedmates for the evening and you're not supposed to think she's a tramp.
Be a 'metrosexual' wussified pom-pom boy and it's okay to do all of the above.
I guess I don't understand their ideas anymore than their 'zero tolerance' myself.

But they really mean zero tolerance for anything they disagree with.

[Syncro]

Yep, I have been in the neighborhood for many years, and it has gotten worse.

[Syncro]

Refinement is needed

Yes, for sure.

They are young and have a lot to learn, but they are doing something and I applaude them for that. It is a start.

I will be meeting with them in the near future.

[Syncro]

Thanks!

I will see that this group gets in contact with them. They can share ideas.

[Syncro]

Yea, don't be a WASP.

Then you are protected.

Interesting the type of people that founded this country.

They would be in jail now for some of their views.

Oops, no they wouldn't.

They would fight it like they fought the British...