Posted on 03/04/2006 1:39:56 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Sean Allen is a 16-year-old in Aurora, Colo., who couldn't take it anymore. Sitting day after day in Jay Bennish's 10th-grade geography class had become too much.
Though Bennish teaches students to identify which continent Tokyo appears on, and what the climate of India is like compared to Tibet, Bennish had taken it upon himself as the geography teacher to begin teaching his view of political science (a course not presently offered at Allen's Overland High School).
Following the president's State Of The Union address, Bennish boiled up a bit, until he could no longer take it. Marching into his classroom – preceding what was supposed to be a lecture on geography, Bennish opened his remarks thusly:
He [Bush] started off his speech talkin' about how America should be the country that dominates the world! That we have been blessed essentially by God to have the most civilized, the most advanced, best system, and that its our duty as Americans to use the military to go out into the world and to make the world like us.
Sounds a lot like the things Adolph Hitler used to say. We're the only ones who are right. Everyone else is backwards. And its our job to conquer the world and make sure they all live just like we want them to ... There are some eerie similarities to the tones that they use. Very, very – ethnocentric.
Deciding he had had enough of Bennish's rubbish, he taped him on his IPod, played the tape – for his parents – who took the matter to the school administration who then put Bennish on paid leave. Yesterday, ignorant students walked out of Overland protesting the teacher's paid leave.
But what did Bush say in the beginning of his State Of The Union addresss? Indulge me ...
Abroad, our nation is committed to an historic, long-term goal – we seek the end of tyranny in our world. Some dismiss that goal as misguided idealism. In reality, the future security of America depends on it. On September the 11th, 2001, we found that problems originating in a failed and oppressive state 7,000 miles away could bring murder and destruction to our country. Dictatorships shelter terrorists, and feed resentment and radicalism, and seek weapons of mass destruction. Democracies replace resentment with hope, respect the rights of their citizens and their neighbors, and join the fight against terror. Every step toward freedom in the world makes our country safer – so we will act boldly in freedom's cause.
Far from being a hopeless dream, the advance of freedom is the great story of our time. In 1945, there were about two dozen lonely democracies in the world. Today, there are 122. And we're writing a new chapter in the story of self-government – with women lining up to vote in Afghanistan, and millions of Iraqis marking their liberty with purple ink, and men and women from Lebanon to Egypt debating the rights of individuals and the necessity of freedom. At the start of 2006, more than half the people of our world live in democratic nations. And we do not forget the other half – in places like Syria and Burma, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and Iran – because the demands of justice, and the peace of this world, require their freedom, as well.
No one can deny the success of freedom, but some men rage and fight against it.
And, according to Bennish, this kind of language is directly comparable to Adolph Hitler:
If at the beginning of the War and during the War 12 or 15,000 of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain.
These tactics are based on an accurate estimation of human weakness and must lead to success, with almost mathematical certainty, unless the other side also learns how to fight poison gas with poison gas. The weaker natures must be told that here it is a case of to be or not to be.
We should all applaud Sean Allen for standing up to a lying liberal teacher. Oh that more young people are steeled with the courage to charge headlong into the battle for all that is true, just and good!
And as for the ignorant kids who pulled the "walk out"?
Come on, its a public school – what they miss can't corrupt them!
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Kevin McCullough is heard daily in New York City, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and New Jersey on WMCA 570/970 from 2-5 p.m. He blogs at muscleheadrevolution.com.
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Public Schools and Public Radio are failures supported by tax dollars and ruthless management policies: You will be liberal or you will die.
It's time to change both of them. Welcome to private enterprise!
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Knowing kids, this may become a trendy thing! Catch the teacher preaching his marxism, get him kicked out of school for a change! Plus, get a free period to goof around.
If this guy isn't fired, he must me monitored by someone at all times. I think Allen's parents should try and sue the school for child abuse or something, hit these schools in the wallet and things will change.
Ah...well, now I understand what got Bennish all upset...these are the evil results of US influence in the world...and for the Left, these are unacceptable results.
I-Pods are going to put teachers into an uneasy situation. Almost anything you say...might come back to be public knowledge. Back in 1970s when I went to school...you simply had a dull boring teacher and thats all you really could complain about. Today....teachers like this dimwit...are open targets. I think they will start to think a little...but they aren't bright enough to just stop.
So I sent him an E-Mail:
Here's his answer:
I doubt that he's objective considering his "Plans"
I wonder how much of the "No Child Left Behind" money this school receives.
No matter what you say, morons will get it wrong.
I just wish some reporter would do his job and ask these students some basic geography questions that high school students should know. I want to know if he has managed to teach any geography, or as I suspect, his off topic rants are taking away from teaching.
Not allowing Free Speech is the problem, not the mindless babble this prick rambled. If everything was allowed to be expressed people like this pompass ass would be basically SHUNNED and ignored by society and I beleive that's the way the forefathers invisioned free speech. Your allowed to speak your mind no matter how idiotic and stupid you sound, but you must realize there is a responsibility to what you utter and there will be consequences. Especially when you try to deceive and lie about events!
If the kids were suspended, as they should have been, for being truant from class, maybe they would think twice about protesting??????
"The problem as I see it is not with what the teacher said, the problem is he was kicked out for saying it, and no one was allowed to counter or present an opposing view to his idiotic rant."
--- Wrong point of view
The problem is that an Authority figure is politicing not teaching.
There is no one in the class room to "counter or present an opposing view".
Any student who tries to "counter or present an opposing view" will be punished either openly (held up for ridicule or treated as a "trouble maker") or in secret (grade lowered). That the student had to tape the class session is proof that he knew that he would be retaliated against without iron clad evidence.
Free speech implies a level playing field
Extending your arguement means that you have to support Dan Rather & Mary Mapes in Rathergate because Rather's forged documents was his speech and "the problem is he was kicked out for saying it"
In college, of course, you or your parents have paid for the instruction and to walk out would defeat the purpose in being there. But, if public schools allowed students to walk out when the teachers started these rants, they'd walk and then the school would have to enforce the ciriculum.
Imagine how careful these leftists would be if they knew half the class would be out on the lawn the moment they talked about anything but geography!
Before anybody starts, I know that you pay for the public school too but attendence is mandatory and you don't write checks to the school. Kids often don't see the connect.
Watch for the new rule....no Ipods or MP3 players allowed in class.
Any parent who'd bothered to read this would have been warned.
I agree with these ignorant students. The teacher should be put on unpaid leave.
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