Kerry taunts tied to school fight (peace-loving Democrat alert!)

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 11/10/04 | Tammy J. Oseid

[Arrowhead1952]

Another article about the intolerant left..... When will this stop????

[Osage Orange]

It's believed to be the only election-related beating in Dakota County.

ROFLOL!!!

What a line..!!!

Although, I'm thinking J. Heinz Kerry took a beating this last election..!!

[Tribune7]

The great state of public schools.

[dead]

"It's a good thing to see young people interested and excited about politics," said Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom.

What an effing idiot.

[F16Fighter]

Wouldn't it be easier for Democrats just bring to the floor a bill to secede from the Republic?

We can surrender to them ALL the Big Cities, zoos, meth clinics, abortion shops, bath houses, can't we?

[KC_Conspirator]

Sounds like future IUPAT workers to me. Size them up for black yellow t-shirts and get them praticing ripping up little girls signs.

[Core_Conservative]

Interesting that the Kerry supporter would start with the 'gay' taunt, huh?

The "gay" word is now used as a derogatory term for anything that is different or not liked. My daughter has used that term to describe teachers whom she doesn't like, for food she doesn't like, etc, etc. - I don't approve of the use of the term, and I have told her so, I also told her it could get her into trouble at school.

[Politicalmom]

Hey!!


I LIKE zoos!! : )

[Gondring]

As a professional scientist and environmental consultant for more than a decade, I see in this article an off-topic point that I'd like to address.

I think few people are aware of an ongoing struggle in education.

Note the name of where this took place: Apple Valley's School of Environmental Studies

That's not the same as Environmental Science. Environmental Studies includes things like activism, etc. Many people are vigorously opposing the attempts to water down the science side of academic programs and still call them science. When I'd receive a résumé from a prospective entry-level environmental candidate, I had to be careful to determine which type of training they'd received in school--environmental science or merely environmental studies.

The author gets things right, saying "...the specialized science and environmental programs..." later in the article. That's not to say that environmental can't be science, but it's clear that this program treats them separately, and does both.

So, if any of you have children interested in environmental stuff and they want to major in it, be sure they get a real degree, not just a sheet of paper.

[Gondring]

LOL... agreed...that's one hilarious line, and your follow-up is so true, too...though not sure if it fits for Dakota County.

[Rakkasan1]

our schools have become a real zoo.

[fso301]

eco-architecture and indigenous philosophy.

???

[My Favorite Headache]

[Gondring]

>>eco-architecture and indigenous philosophy.

>???

See my posting #29 above.

[Rakkasan1]

nothing to see here.. move along. http://kstp.com/article/stories/S4023.html?cat=1 I saw this video and thought it was pathetic the school "monitors" were doing absolutley nothing.

[Rytwyng]

Typical of the liberal mentality, they can't win in a debate of words so they take up weapons against the unarmed.

Which is precisely why they want us all to be unarmed.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Very good catch, Gondring. I'm an engineer who despairs at the science and math background kids come out of schools with today, and I blew right past that reference.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Jabba the Nutt]

At least they're not fundamentalist, redneck, bible-thumping Christians or 'values voters', who are the greatest threat to America and the world.

[monday]

"No one should get "beat up" but it seems both sides kept it going."

Using that logic the kid that got beat up should have been charged with assault too. Interesting that the police don't see it your way.

[brbethke]

Good point. This school tries to walk the line between actual science and Gaiaism and does not always succeed. Witness the classes in eco-architecture and indigenous philosophy.

When I first went to college, way back in the Dark Ages, I thought I wanted to major in wildlife biology, as ecology had not yet become a recognized discipline. Fortunately for the world I could not hack organic chem, and therefore changed majors to something far less intellectually demanding: Journalism.

I shudder to think that I *could* have stuck it out in some modern mushy discipline like "eco-activism," and that, naieve and arrogant liberal twerp that I was back then, I could have done a *lot* of damage if I had.