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Ten-year-Old Forbidden from Singing Pink’s Anti-Bush Song at School Talent Show
The Progressive | May 9, 2006 | Matthew Rothschild

Posted on 05/10/2006 3:32:01 PM PDT by k8baller

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To: k8baller
What ever happened to your brain cells? Oh, wait, you are new here. Let me educate you, there has never been "free speech" for 10 year olds at school. Thats what ever happened to it.

There, ya learned somethin, and I wont even charge ya.

21 posted on 05/10/2006 3:41:51 PM PDT by Paradox (Removing all Doubt since 1998!)
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To: k8baller
With limits, I think our kids should be allowed to express themselves in a respectful, meaningful way

They must work off of a different definition of "respectful".

22 posted on 05/10/2006 3:43:05 PM PDT by Junior_G
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To: k8baller

Sounds like the mom is a MoonBat dingbat teacher from the darkside of the moon that has absolutely no brains and unfortunately the daughter may turn out just like her mommy.

I bet good money the mom "dates" the students she teaches.

Also when i have kids, there is NO WAY IN HELL i'm going to let them attend ANY kind of public school or private. It's going to be Homeschool & private tutors for them.


23 posted on 05/10/2006 3:43:47 PM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45 (FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
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To: k8baller

Uh oh, the Zot police are out? Ignore them.


24 posted on 05/10/2006 3:43:58 PM PDT by opinionator
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To: RedBeaconNY

Let's follow this logic then about appropriateness. Back in my younger days, I was a big Hank Williams Jr. fan. On the Whiskey Bent And Hellbound album is one of my favorite songs, O.D'd in Denver. It's about how he met this woman who is the ideal woman, but he was so high on blow that he can't remember her name. I used to listen to that song when my kids were in the car, in their younger days (still do). For that matter, I would listen to the original version of "Devil Went Down to Georgia", the original version of "Fancy" and "If You Don't Like Hank Williams..."

Was I wrong in listening to that music in the car, playing it in family functions, and letting my kids own said music. What one person finds inappropriate, another person finds fine. Now, "cocaine" and queers, yeah, I can understand why you wouldn't let that in an elementary school, (it is a public school though...) but to exclude a song cause of a reference to alcohol. Do that and you exclude the majority of country music from eligibility.


25 posted on 05/10/2006 3:44:13 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691 (The enemy lies in the heart of Gadsden)
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To: jdm
I think our kids should be allowed to express themselves in a respectful, meaningful way.

Yeah, mom. Sounds very respectable to me.

26 posted on 05/10/2006 3:44:44 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: k8baller

Who gives a sh$t what some little old brat thinks? Her rotten mother should be locked up for child abuse for using the child as a political prop.


27 posted on 05/10/2006 3:46:16 PM PDT by Buffettfan (VIVA LA MIGRA! - LONG LIVE THE MINUTEMEN!)
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To: k8baller
I smell plastic burning.

Hmmm, wonder what it could be???
28 posted on 05/10/2006 3:47:00 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: Scribbz
is that ozone I smell?

I think so

29 posted on 05/10/2006 3:48:22 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: k8baller

IBTZ


30 posted on 05/10/2006 3:49:03 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: RedBeaconNY

You again? Just stirring things up?? Weren't you just zotted on another thread? It is NOT appropriate for a public school.


31 posted on 05/10/2006 3:49:05 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: k8baller

Zotted.


32 posted on 05/10/2006 3:49:13 PM PDT by andrew2527
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To: Tench_Coxe

On second thought, missed it.


33 posted on 05/10/2006 3:49:39 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: HEY4QDEMS

in that case

IBTZ


34 posted on 05/10/2006 3:50:33 PM PDT by Scribbz (Navy brat and proud! My dad has more stripes on his butt than you do on your arm!)
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To: dead

I'd love to see Hannity hit pink with one of his "Do you know who the is/" pop quiz's.


35 posted on 05/10/2006 3:50:40 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: opinionator
Uh oh, the Zot police are out? Ignore them.

Look at his sign up date. What do you expect?

36 posted on 05/10/2006 3:50:52 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: k8baller

“I think we are sending a bad message," Nancy wrote. “Molly has become aware of world events and she was EXTREMELY excited to find this song and want to sing it. She is passionate about it—has been practicing it since the day the Talent Show was announced. With limits, I think our kids should be allowed to express themselves in a respectful, meaningful way. To try to ‘shield’ them from the real world is, I believe, a real mistake. Could I please get your feedback on this?”

What an idiot. Maybe the bad message is letting a ten-year old listen to Pink!


37 posted on 05/10/2006 3:50:55 PM PDT by New Girl
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To: k8baller
"Let me tell you about hard work Minimum wage with a baby on the way Let me tell you about hard work Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away Let me tell you about hard work Building a bed out of a cardboard box Let me tell you about hard work Hard work Hard work You don't know nothing about hard work Hard work Hard work Oh"

Get yourself an education and stop fornicating, you idiot, and then you won't have all the "hard work, hard work." And, by the way, no one wants to hear this ridiculout crap about "the mininum wage." This only applies to you "progressive" types. And, if you want a smidge of credibility, you might try dropping the "you don't know nothing" crap. Go back and read my previous post about double negatives. You and your type expect everyone to bend the language to your inadequacies. We just "ain't" going there.

38 posted on 05/10/2006 3:51:26 PM PDT by davisfh
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To: Tench_Coxe

Where is dad? How does he feel about this?


39 posted on 05/10/2006 3:52:22 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: k8baller

I remember back in 1984 (yes, the year, not the book) a boy wanted to dress in drag and sing a song that kind of made fun of girls' attitudes. I was there when he mad it. It was stupid, but funny. I say this and I am a girl. So, if a school can keep him from doing that, why can't they choose what song someone can't sing?


40 posted on 05/10/2006 3:52:34 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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