Posted on 03/17/2005 11:08:03 AM PST by Stoat
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SEATTLE STUDENTS HOST ANTI-WAR SPECTACLE
By Michelle Malkin · March 17, 2005 08:37 AM
This is one of those stories you shouldn't read if you have high blood pressure:
Three invited pro-military speakers were shocked last Friday when they arrived for a West Seattle High student assembly to confront a theater stage strewn with figures costumed as Iraqi men, women and children splashed with blood....
Truly outrageous. And remember, this isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened in the Puget Sound. Update: West Seattle High says its mission is to "provide a safe, constructive learning environment that honors the dignity and worth of every individual in the school community." The school's principal, Susan Derse, used to work at Garfield High, where she sent letters to every student's family after alleged hate crimes occurred there: "I did send a letter home to all of my families and to all of my students basically saying in light of Dr. King, we need to take particular attention to some few misguided students who act counter to our school ethics." I hope she will now send out letters defending the honor of U.S. soliders and disassociating herself from the behavior of the students involved in the current controversy. (Hat tip: Virginia Randall.) Update II: Ed Morrissey weighs in here. An excerpt: The school could provide no explanation for the skits prepared and enacted by the students, and could not determine if any adult supervision had been involved. However, as anyone who survived public school knows, students don't just disappear into the theater for any period of time without having some cooperation from teachers. This wasn't an improvisation; they had costumes, effects, and at least a rudimentary set built for this play. Combined with the access given the students to the assembly, it's clear that teachers set this ambush up -- and that's exactly what this was intended to be[.] |
Has any ADULT laid claim to this Commie propaganda piece?
Education in action/inaction (((PING)))!
Jane Fonda isnt an ugly woman on the outside, on the inside she is evil. I think Washington State is the same.
There are some wonderful folk there - salt of the earth types. Sadly, it's just the concentration of Leftists in western WA that dominates their politics that makes it evil in that arena.
There are some wonderful people in every State. I would suppose there could be one or two wonderful people in Ithaca.
I friend of mine used to live one block up from Greenlake (in Seattle). He moved to Bellevue about 11 years ago when his first child was due. He said one day that he thought the rest of us were nuts to move out of Seattle until he started thinking about kids. He wasted no time removing himself from that sewer of an education system.
Conservatives generally conduct themselves with civility and class. It's beneath us to do such underhanded things. We're not afraid to exchange ideas, or engage in heated debate. We can back up what and why we believe in something by way of using sound reasoning and logic, and most importantly...facts.
Newsflash to liberal morons. THE IRAQ WAR IS OVER. WE WON. IRAQ HAS A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. THEY ARE CURRENTLY DECIDING WHO SHOULD BE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER. THEIR CRIMINALS ARE KILLING FEWER THAN OUR CRIMINALS.
This has made me sick to my stomach.
The lack of respect to our brave men and women just breaks my heart. Thanks for the reminder of what we are up against.
For the life of me, I cannot see why they got upset. If they cannot handle mere students in make-believe warpaint how in the world do they they they could do ANYTHING???? Uh, folks, next time you visit a school and this it being pulled, start commenting on the make-up, costumes, wether or not they're being realistic...ect..ect...ect... And they speak on the subject you came to speak on!! These children were play acting and the adults actually gave them some attention????My Gosh.
"If they cannot handle mere students in make-believe warpaint..."
The issue isn't 'merely' about play acting. This isn't about whether or not the adults could 'handle' it. This display was presented under false pretences. I would also suggest that the adminstration was negligent as well as dishonest in claiming ignorance as to the content of the students so-called production, which was obviously organized. There were adults who had to open up that auditorium and supervise the students.
The function of the educational institute should be for academic instruction, not activism. That is what is at the heart of this matter.
With regard to your suggestion about patronizing the students if this should happen to any of us, I would recommend for those of us whom may find themselves in such an unfortunate situation, to behave as tax paying adults and speak with those individuals who are supposed to be in charge, as well as the members of the school board.
Oh well, the 'palestinians' use children as 'martyrs' - it doesn't surprise me to read that commie teachers follow in their footsteps.
I'm not sure you're applying the age old advice, "Laughter is the best tool." The children are puffed up because adults let them be the useful idiots. So the children have to be reminded that they are just that: CHILDREN PLAYING AT LIFE. It's a two-front issue that should be addressed on both fronts. There's good advice in what you're saying - that's a given.... No one seems to see the CHILDREN for what they are: CHILDREN. If they want to dress up and play with make-up, fine, let them. Just remind them it is just that - MAKE-UP. Some much damage was done by adults in the past who let CHILDREN believe themselves to be ADULTS. Of course, I do know adults who behaved/behave like children...an example would be the teachers and administrators - silly little children deep within their hearts...same thing. Let them know they are children by addressing the issue of what they're doing. It's one of those things that is so simple that we've made it difficult. Then go home, hug your own children and be grateful...
You seem to be terribly eager to overlook this egregious insult to those men and women whom we should all hold in the highest esteem. It is, after all they who make it possible for all of us to enjoy the freedoms that we do.
Do you honestly believe that this was just a little, inconsequential thing that some foolish kids did, that has no connection whatsoever with the administration?
Do you honestly believe that this occurred without the guidance and enthusiasm of the school administration?
Would you have the same response if it were a matter of some kids (and faculty) putting on a presentation where they were in blackface and performing racist, insulting material?
How about if the presentation portrayed all Jews in a categorically negative light? Would you want to dismiss it as some foolish antics, not worthy of your concern then?
Are you sitting down? You are sitting down, aren't you? The answer is: Yes. You deal with the so-called adults and then you deal with the CHILDREN. MMM... Did you read anywhere in what I wrote that showed me to not connect the actions of the CHILDREN with the adults? No, you did not. You should have caught the part about the adults using the CHILDREN as useful idiots (I believe that was the word). You should have also read the part where I gave credit to what you assigned as far as the adults.
Next. Blackface? Mmm. Required another whole second to think about that. Sitting down? Sure? The answer: Yes. See the above paragraph.
Oh, yes. People of Jewish extraction. MMM. Here's where it took another whole second. Did you get a drink of water? You may have been upset to the point of gagging on the last answer. I would like to make you comfortable while you read this answer. The answer: Yes. See the paragraph above the above paragraph.
It's not that it's not serious. It is. This is not a life and death issue. It is about teaching CHILDREN that not everything THEY say is SERIOUS. When people go nuts in front of CHILDREN then the CHILDREN win the day. Adults used the CHILDREN believing other adults would take the CHILDREN so very seriously. This only works if ... repeat...if the adults being targeted forget the goal of what's being done.
Deal with the adults. But the CHILDREN need to learn that they are just children.
Let me provide a until-now not told incident from my much misguided youth...It'll take just a few seconds - get your candy or soda, though, if you need to...
I was, oh, maybe about 13 or 14 and as a very natural teenager of the femal sort, I was having an top of the line, Grade A, never before seen and never so finely duplicated (I believe this, honestly) HISTRIONIC FIT because my mother (the most awful, narrow-minded, old-fashioned, biddy) because my mother wouldn't let me do something. I cannot even recall it - but you must remember at that age, EVERY THING I BELIEVED WAS THE CENTER OF EXISTENCE AND TO BE BELIEVED BY ALL OTHERS (sounds like a normal teenager at some point in his/her teenie-career). Oh. On with the story...
There I was, just pleading my case and getting angier and angier at this woman who was refusing (HOW DARE SHE) to give in to my views. Know what stopped it? SHE LAUGHED AT MY ACTIONS. Not my beliefs....MY ACTIONS.... and she said, "You're almost as good an actress as..." Don't ask me who she name - any actress over 18 (remember I was young) was too old to remember.
All these years later I remembered her doing that. It TOTALLY brought me out of the fantasy world. Reminded me that no matter what I thought I did not have enough life experience to or right to think I was mature enough to dictate life to her.
You want to know where treating CHILDREN like adults have gotten us? CHILDREN being allowed to act as adults and kill like adults and YET....not be responsible as adults. So. You deal with the adults. You deal with the children.
You never noticed. I did not say do not take action against the children. Investigate. DISCIPLINE. PUNISH. Good word: Punish. It was invented as a word for a reason... Lying during a school investigattion? Isn't that an actional offense by the school? Deal with the adults on that issue. Deal with the CHILDREN.
But first...the folks who showed up would have made such an unbelievable impact upon the CHILDREN if they treated them as such. Deception is terrible. Why reward the anyone with showered attention? They got what they wanted when that happened.
Oh. And the military? I'm fairly sure they're frustrated. As a prior military person, though, I'm more concerned with teaching the CHILDREN that when they mature they'll be better ADULTS by understanding the world did not start at their birth or at their first semi-rational thought.
Humor. A truly misunderstand tool. Sometimes it's out of bounds - sometimes it's all that holds a person's mind together to get him or her through the moment.
The Good, Gracious Lord gave us humor.... And though, like you, I can rage in anger, I can recall seeing in my mind's-eye my mother bringing a egotistic teenager down to the proper level, without a blow, without yelling, with humor.
Sorry the story took so long. You've probably fallen asleep by now at your keyboard. Or maybe you went for the chocolate candy. I prefer to think you went for the chocolate candy.
Excuse me .. this was not children doing make-believe in warpaint .. this was TEACHERS teaching students that the Iraq war was BAD. Because heaven knows Seattle is an ANTI-WAR city for a long time.
Somebody needs to show the children the photos of the SACKS OF BONES which were found in a building in Iraq. They were the bones of Iraqi citizens who had been put through a shreader - while their families were forced to watch. The sacks were all arranged in rows upon rows upon rows - all with tags of who the person was and the crime they had committed.
Instead .. these children have been indoctrinated to believe that our own military went into Iraq AND PURPOSEFULLY KILLED THE CITIZENS OF IRAQ - and for no other purpose.
This make-believe warpaint was not innocent - it was meant to embarrass and ridicule. If the people who were invited to speak had been TOLD IN ADVANCE they were planning this little theatre performance - then we could have come prepared with the truth about what really happened there - and totally destroyed the "make-believe". But .. to pull this without warning was outrageous.
And .. for the life of me .. why you can't see that is just mind boggling.
You said it. "..it was meant to embarass and ridicule." And did it? Or...did the visitors stand their ground? Did they cave in? Or...did they run screaming and wailing from the scene frightened by the CHILDREN like chickens with their heads cut off?
It only worked because the visitors forgot the [unofficial] number one rule of debat - to throw your esteemed opponet off before he/she can even get to the podium.
So. Did the CHILDREN win the debate? Or did the visitors do what they set out to do?
You mentioned the military earlier in your discussion with me... Do you think the military anticipates what they can? Of course they do. (See, I knew we'd agree!). Do you also think the military realizes there are things going to happen that they cannot anticipate for but must accept as a reality and deal with it? Of course they do. (See, again we agree.)
Next time, the visitors can treat the CHILDREN like children and commend them on their make-up, tell them when they get older they might be as good as (name your actor/actress of choice) and continue on...just like our men and women of the military....
just like people of ALL races and BOTH sexes have done since the beginning of time.
Who said I can't see it? Of course I can. But why get so outraged at them? What is it that people say about computers...? "Garbage in, garbage out.."?
The visitors were just the right folks at the right place at the right time...to show the CHILDREN the truth of that truism (ironic, yes?).
Humor. Very disarming. It's not a placebo. It's not for all situations. But it was an excellent tool for the CHILDREN. And there's a reason why CHILDREN are in caps and adults are not...
Adults do not need histrionics. CHILDREN require histrionics to make themselves feel good...not be good, just feel good.
Did you get enough chocolate to share? The last time I tried to share some over the web my pc had it's own histrionic fit. But it's only two years old...!
protecting Idaho is a noble effort. Seattle was a nice place till the morons took it over. Leave it to the naifs, though, to invite others into their lair under false colors--just like a good commie.
Wonder if they would feel like that if THEY were blasted on 9/11?
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