A high-school art project on Bush and Hitler (Student gets an A)

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=HITLER-ART-02-08-05&cat=AN ^

[boop]

My thoughts too. Not only is it uncreative, he paints at a 3rd grade level.

[dread78645]

my kerry-shrek diorama got me a c-

Ya should've gone with the old standard: Kerry-Lurch

[Peach]

It absolutely frosts me that kids are so stupid that they equate Hitler with Bush. Is the distinction of killing people vs. freeing two nations beyond their grasp?

[sevry]

that students should be encouraged to express their own thoughts through art.

I think Jo the nanny would have him stand in the corner - or rather his teachers.

Sure, free to express. Uh-huh. Riiiiggght. I get it.

Because you just know the same group of fanatics would say EXACTLY THE SAME if the kid decided to portray the late MLK, Jr. as a thick-lipped, bug-eyed Step-n-Fetchit character. They'd say the same. Sure they would.

Unfortunately there's only one Jo the nanny to go around. The kid's teachers might only be somewhere down on the list.

[91B]

Oh-some Hollywierd lib will probably pay him big money to put on an exhibit. His art may stink, but there are plenty of morons out there who share his contorted worldview.

[Right_in_Virginia]

the 17-year-old built an abstract scene comparing President Bush's war policies with Adolf Hitler's pillage of Europe.

How can students be rewarded for being so factually wrong?

[BigCinBigD]

He may have gotten a A in art, But I bet he failed Gym.

[SlowBoat407]

First mention of Hitler loses! He should have gotten an F.

[Jackknife]

What a brainwashed little punk.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

He is lucky that he doesn't go to my sons high school.My son would have asked him what he was thinking and how there is any likeness between the two.He also would have told him to get his facts straight.The kid got an A ,because of his leftist teacher approving of such BS.Just goes to show who runs the schools.In my house we discuss every school subject in full, so our kids will not buy the BS some teachers put out there.If he would have used religion he would have received an F.

[doug from upland]

I just spoke with the principal. He is passing on a message to the parents to get permission for me to interview him.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Would you please ask him where he got the idea that Bush is like Hitler.

[Yardstick]

I think a better title for the piece would have been "Leftists Are Hysterical Morons With A Limited Sense of History"

[doug from upland]

Yes.

[MHT]

If only this piece of "art" had chocolate smeared on a jar of urine with a cross in it, it would qualify for NEA funding. This is so "innovative", so "cutting-edge"--it's everything that the "art community" relishes.

Too bad that the "teacher" doesn't realize that it's really trite, shallow propaganda that didn't develop the student's skills. This piece of "abstract" art done by a 17-year-old could have been a one-hour diorama by a third-grader. Once again, grade inflation is alive and well.

[Nataku X]

Eden said that although he supports U.S. soldiers, he believes the invasion of Iraq was unjustified.

If you say that our soldiers are committing the same atrocities as the Nazis, and yet "support the troops", then you disagree with the Nuremberg trials verdicts. Given, this guy hasn't explicitly commented on the supposed war crimes of the US military, but that is inferred by his parallel to the horrific Nazi military. What silly reasoning.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Thank you.I find it mind boggling that someone could make such a statement ,unless the person is misinformed or indoctrinated into this believe,by parents or school.

[newgeezer]

Ping. Don't miss this.