Posted on 02/24/2004 10:24:49 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Sec. Paige's comments were unfortunate, misleading and insulting to all mafia organizations everywhere.
Bad faith abounds in debate about the war***A FEW DAYS AFTER the United States attacked Iraq, I traveled to Chicago to address a group of high school history teachers. I urged them to conduct debates about the war, so that students could arrive at their own views of it. Afterward, one of the teachers pulled me aside. ''Thanks so much for your talk,'' she said, smiling graciously. ''Unless we debate the war, our students won't know that it's an enormous mistake.'' Like the teacher, I regard the attack on Iraq as an enormous mistake. But her comment contains its own cynical error: It presumes anyone who debates...***
and they are still doing harm...
'We want our education'***Banging on empty water-cooler bottles for a rhythmic drumbeat, about 150 city students from five schools who had skipped their classes demonstrated yesterday outside a meeting of the state Board of Education, demanding funding for Baltimore's struggling schools.
"We want our money, and we want our education," said Chantel Morant, 15, a sophomore at Baltimore City College who helped organize the rally. "Money and education go hand in hand, like two plus two equals four."
The students skipped school and caught MTA buses or walked to meet at 9 a.m. in front of state Department of Education headquarters on West Baltimore Street. The rally was organized by the Baltimore City Council of PTAs.
The outburst was the order of the day in a city where educators, parents and students are fuming over the school district's financial mess and a breakdown yesterday in reaching a solution for the fiscal crisis.***
"I don't think it rises to the level of sexual assault. But we're dealing with it. "We have sent out advisories to all of the schools to clarify our policy. We're going to treat this the same as we do any inappropriate sexual behavior.
"We don't differentiate between whether it's boy/girl, girl/girl, boy/boy. We have policies in place that cover this and we are enforcing them."
Four of the six girls facing expulsion are from the Turner Middle School, at 59th Street and Baltimore Avenue, in West Philadelphia, where a group of girls who self identify as "dykes taking over" have allegedly sexually harassed other girls.
At Simon Gratz, a group called the "Lipstick Gang" has been accused of recruiting straight girls into a lesbian lifestyle. Clashes between groups of openly gay and straight girls have erupted.***
It's not savable.
When is telling the truth about the NEA stupid?
The NEA is not a terrorist group.
They're an organized crime syndicate. Where's RICO when ya need it?
Interesting, no? I guess they don't want to draw anymore attention to themselves.
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