Posted on 12/02/2005 3:51:09 PM PST by shining_city
For years parents have been frustrated with the barrage of left-wing claptrap thrown at our children in public schools.
On Nov. 6 we saw yet another example. Teachers in 10 high schools in the Los Angeles area—schools that are among the lowest ranked in the nation when it comes to basic reading and math skills—bused more than 800 students to participate in an anti-Bush rally sponsored by a group calling itself “The World Can’t Wait—Drive out the Bush Regime.”
With the use of taxpayer dollars, staff, school police and youth relations personnel accompanied the students to the event on public school buses.
Instead of being in chemistry class, students waved protest signs; when they were tired, some went home for the day instead of back to class. Not only were these teachers and administrators ignoring their duty to teach children, but they also encouraged them to skip school to attend the rally.
Apparently using these children as political pawns was more important than English class. And we wonder why American children are ranked behind so many other nations in utterly every scholastic criterion that matters?
This is another blatant example of how liberals have taken over our public schools and turned them into hotbeds of left-wing activism. In just the past few weeks we have heard how a public school in Lexington, Mass. forces kindergartners to read pro-gay marriage books and how judges have banned the Pledge of Allegiance from schools in Sacramento, Calif.
Instead of teaching scientific method, students now learn environmental “junk science.”
Instead of learning of the glories of the Constitution, they’re told what horrible men our Founding Fathers were; instead of reading the classics, they learn about gay marriage and condom usage.
For the liberals who control the public schools, education has nothing whatsoever to do with preparing children to live in a complex and challenging world. Instead, it’s about turning them into “social justice” advocates—albeit ones so lacking in basic math, reading and critical-thinking skills, that many end up government dependents—all done courtesy of the taxpayer, who is receiving exactly nothing for their investment, except the questionable excitement of watching countries like China and India leap ahead of the United States in terms of innovation and scientific achievement.
Mr. Romer, you should have the decency to resign your post as superintendent of schools for the Los Angeles Unified School District, not only for allowing teachers and administrators to encourage children to become truants, but using taxpayer dollars to send these children to a biased rally.
Some schools in Kentucky have considered going to a four-day school week to save taxpayer dollars from high gasoline prices. In the interest of full disclosure, Mr. Romer, how about letting us see the costs for the buses, personnel and staff for this little field trip?
Katharine DeBrecht is a mom, homemaker and author of Help Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed.
My wife and I live in Los Angeles, and this is exactly why I tell her that when we start having kids in a few years they will not be going to public schools!
Egads! My school won't even pay for the gas to drive a large sports team on two buses!
I believe they are covered in this crowd.
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There needs to be a congressional investigation if this is true.
Well, it was wacko California.
Has the school district violated any laws regarding political neutrality on the part of public schools? In other words, using school bus and organizing students in the name of the school indicates the school officially endorses a political stance, and if I recall this breaches freedom of political choice on the part of students.
I'm sure this is strictly illegal under New Zealand laws if this happens in this country. If schools want to organize busing to political gatherings, they must organize in private capacity (with clarifications that such-and-such is not done in the capacity of the school)
I'm quite sure that if this is in New Zealand it is already illegal because it violates political neutrality on the part of public schools. Even the left-leaning NZ won't tolerate this garbage. See my post 6.
Communist Manifesto Plank NO.10: Public(government) runs
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I better never hear my school district pulled such a stunt or I will be running for the board.
Our colleges did it all the time during Vietnam.
Maybe the laws are differnet here. Let's say suppose we have a John Smith as principal of Auckland College. Smith may make a political statement on whether he thinks the Iraq war is just and even go to anti-war march representing Smith himself, but under NZ laws it is illegal for him to declare official anti-war stance on the part of Auckland College.
This is the essence of political neutrality on the part of public institutions.
A Republican Congress writes the laws. A Republican president is in charge of the Department of Education. Why is stuff like this still happening?
Debrecht is a real soldier in the war against the media/academic/activist enemy.
Her book, "Help Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed," has lefty censorship groups sh**ting themselves in fury and indignation.
Other than the gun control laws, it sounds like a nice place.
Recall the members of the school board. Demand the principal be fired!!
Just start screaming and the media will be forced to cover it. Start a protest. This is just outrageous. No wonder the dems want students dumbed-down .. it's so they can haul them to all this Anti-American events and taint their minds against America. Disgusting!!
I'm wondering when the liberals are going to get around to demanding political equity on our highschool, college and university campuses. I'm sure they're for it. They're the guardians of equality throughout our society.
Right?
I'll bet the Commies running these "schools" are always whining and moaning about not having a big enough school budget. If you ask me, they are getting TOO MANY of the taxpayer dollars. Time to cut back on what these morons are getting.
Officially the country is both pacifist, anti-WOT, and pro-free trade at the same time on foreign policy. I wouldn't say it is a paradise, just that it is an interesting free market-pacifist combination.
And domestically there is a lot of social welfare than you could imagine - there is at the moment no private universities, and socially gay marriage is here via the backdoor of "domestic partnerships". It is a deep blue state by US standards except perhaps it supports the WTO.
Worked on my blood pressure for sure. This makes me furious and should not be allowed. But we can scream all we want and they will continue to do what their little socialist anti American hearts want!
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