[ChildOfThe60s]

Consider the source. Enough said.

[Seattle]

My son graduated from this fine establishment of lower learning last year. He had many run-ins with the wacko faculty there, being a properly-raised conservative. Nothing surprises me coming from this school.

[XR7]

The kids have probably seen these ads plastered on buses all over the city:

Click on the banner. Good FReeping opportunity!

[armymarinemom]

Your Tax Dollars at work!

[This Just In]

It would appear to me that the inmates are running the prison.

"High school students have every right to question the war in Iraq..."

...in the privacy of their own home where discussions with their parents(I shudder at the thought) should take place. School should be an institute of education. Of learning, not a facility for student activism. Certainly not for youths who are too immature to truly understand what war is all about, let alone global politics.

[retrokitten]

Still, no one wants a rancid replay of the days when young Vietnam War vets returned to pigs' blood and cries of "Baby killer!"

I disagree. I believe there are plenty of people who would just love to see a return of those days.

[Eva]

I just sent Ms. Paynter an email:

I am sorry, but I find it difficult to believe that the anti-war spectacle at West Seattle High School was produced by a random, unaffiliated group of students. Whatever organization that the students belong to must have a sponsor and if that sponsor claims no knowledge of the content of the play, the sponsor should be fired and the student group banned from campus. You know that's what would happen if a conservative group put on a play depicting various well known, leftist groups as being terror supporting traitors.

The sad fact is that students are being brain washed by the unionist teachers who teach kids what to think, not how to think. That is the big shame of public education.

[FormerLib]

That the students have been so effectively brainwashed to hate their own country, we know what the adults at this school have been teaching.

They should be fired and then deported!

[EternalHope]

And here comes the crucial part: no teachers or advisers were on hand or evidently even aware of the content although that part is one of several things still under investigation.

Not so, but I'm not surprised they are trying to spin it this way.

I live near Seattle, and heard a talk radio interview with one of the participants. The student advisors (aka "teachers") were fully aware of the planned stunt. The fig leaf the teachers are hiding behind is that the "students planned it all".

Free speach, don't ya know...

Nothing whatsoever will come from this. Other than talk radio, the local media just smiled.

[Radix]

I had considered posting this article yesterday, but I found that it simply pissed me off too much.

[Nowhere Man]

Words fail me too. These people are sick.

[Right Brother]

SORRY, I JUST COULDN'T HELP IT. ;^)

[irishtenor]

Sigh... My alma mater.

[Howlin]

Outrageous.

I cannot believe this is allowed in public schools.

[Koan]

"Sometimes they (lessons) come laced with pain, anger, regret and conflicting passions."

Ahh, the wonders of government-run education centers.

[DustyMoment]

SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS GREET MILITARY VISITORS WITH BLOODY ANT-WAR SPECTACLE

Ant-wars are bad enough - I can't imagine how much worse they get with blood added to them.

[DustyMoment]

Don't be fooled - this was a coordinated, staged and rehearsed event. And, at the bottom of it, there was a teacher involved.

We should give credit where credit is due, however. The principal acted responsibly and appropriately.

[nutmeg]

Outrageous ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[TheForceOfOne]

Solution: Send these idiots on a field trip to Iraq, have them ask the Iraqi's why they put that ink on their fingers. If they're to scared to do so, we bring some Iraqi's over hear to speak at their schools and talk about the mass graves, the rape rooms, how they risk their lives to vote, how grateful they are that our soldiers have given them the gift of freedom.

[Bombardier]

As a veteran, this makes my blood boil, and as a teacher, it makes me want to cry. I try to teach patriotism and love of country to my students....and then this garbage happens in a school. I want to die.