Posted on 04/18/2007 9:31:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Students at New York City's Beacon School are getting a real education this week: The law is for chumps.
Teacher Nat Turner and about a dozen of his Beacon students traveled to Cuba this month to check out life in a workers' paradise - in contravention of a Department of Education directive and in violation of federal law.
Beacon - a so-called alternative public high school that caters to the bright and the privileged - dotes on teachers like Turner, who festoons his classroom walls with Che posters as he pines in public for a revolution that will never come.
But if the revolution won't come to Beacon, then Turner - by God - will bring Beacon to the revolution. He has chaperoned several trips to Cuba since 2000 - notwithstanding the fact that American citizens have been legally blocked from traveling there since 1963.
And, despite being specifically denied permission from DOE to make another trip this year, he took at least a dozen students there this month.
After being questioned by U.S. Customs agents, the teacher and the students now face fines of up to $65,000 apiece.
We hope they wring every last dime out of Turner - if not his merry band. The educational value of having an actual price attached to willfully violating a federal law would be priceless.
Certainly the Department of Education seems to be taking the episode rather less seriously than it should.
Turner remains in his classroom as a probe by special schools investigator Richard Condon proceeds. Beacon's principal, Ruth Lacey, has declined to suspend him, and the DOE has yet to intervene.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Wherein, they will surely find paradise. It’s all been arranged.
Revoke his passport..and make him stay in Cuba.
Leftist teacher supreme.
They will see abject poverty, but the teacher will blame it on the U S.
Are frijoles still cheap, I hope?
Nat Turner. With a name like that I would assume he has a chip on his shoulder.
Too bad they let them back in this country.
Are ‘55 Chevrolets still powered by wood-burning stoves? Is prostitution for European tourists still the #1 hard currency source? Are the shelves still bare in most stores? Yep, quite the “paradise” ain’t it?
It will be again....soon.
“the Department of Education seems to be taking the episode rather less seriously than it should ....the DOE has yet to intervene.” - from the editorial
Pedagogue “Nat Turner” likely has protective coloration, so the Bush administration will adopt “the bigotry of low expectations” here.
March 17, 2007
Event: Protest Trip to DC
Information: Beacon goes to protest Iraq in D.C. This is a one-day trip.
Now, THAT'S good! ROFL.
It is not unheard of for college faculty to go to Cuba. I am aware of at least one person who went to Cuba shortly after retiring from the Fed and becoming faculty of a land-grant university. He is a very conservative person politically, but the trip apparently offered more in the way of personal gain.
NPR has sponsored several ‘educational’ trips to Cuba during past fund raising drives. They experienced the Cuban paradise and simultaneously contributed big bucks to NPR. (Words fail.)
Just in case anyone feels like sharing the love, is all. ;)
Not at all likely. They will be shielded from the real Cuba abd get a very controlled touriswt view. It would be like wisking a visitor to the U.S. off to Beverly Hills or the Hamptons and then passing off that experience as typical of American life.
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