And now, we'll add some demons... happy, smiling demons of love...
Posted on 04/02/2008 5:39:37 AM PDT by NRA1995
A Tomah High School student has filed a federal lawsuit alleging his art teacher censored his drawing because it featured a cross and a biblical reference. According to the lawsuit, the student's art teacher asked his class in February to draw landscapes. The student, a senior identified in the lawsuit by the initials A.P., added a cross and the words "John 3:16 A sign of love" in his drawing.
His teacher, Julie Millin, asked him to remove the reference to the Bible, saying students were making remarks about it. He refused, and she gave him a zero on the project.
Millin showed the student a policy for the class that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork. The lawsuit claims Millin told the boy he had signed away his constitutional rights when he signed the policy at the beginning of the semester.
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Seems like this school is hitting on 16 of the 45 Communist goals from 1963...
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
The story does not give the students age, but if he is under 18, I do not think that what he signed would be considered legally binding.
For this reason government schools should be privatized, and there should be complete separation between school and state.
Will Christian parents be gracious when their children are forced into viewing and discussing images of the Angel Moroni or Joseph Smith? Will they welcome Wiccan images? Will Jewish parents be thrilled when Muslim students draw pictures of a nuclear bomb destroying Israel.? When these images are posted on bulletin boards and discussed in class, their spiritually and emotionally immature children will be exposed to and indoctrinated into ideas that are in conflict with family tradition.
Please remember that any government powerful enough to force Christian art on non-Christian children is powerful enough to force anti-Christian art on Christian children.
The education of children is **never** religiously neutral. Government schools are NOT religiously neutral and never have been. They will always trample religious freedom of conscience.
As for this specific case:
Yes, the attorneys should pursue this. Why?
Answer: Because if Christian speech is suppressed in government schools it will be suppressed elsewhere in government and public environments. As long as we have government schools the rights for Christians to speak in them must be defended.
Unfortunately, the courts will rule narrowly on the issue before it. ( The student will likely win.) The courts will ignore the fundamental problem of government schools being in complete conflict with freedom of conscience and the First Amendment.
Exactly! And,,,,Conservatives are sitting like frogs in a pot of slowly warming pot of water!
Just consider how many conservative parents send their kids to government schools. Of course their child's school is a “good” school. ( yeah right!)
By the way,,,have you noticed how almost all of the government school outrage stories involve “good” schools?
Marxism is our nation's **most** serious threat. And,,,government schools are the Marxists **most** important weapons against freedom. We will lose our freedom in the voting booth!
One more thing:
Yes, the big three talk show hosts ( Rush, Sean, and OReilly) will occasionally cover government school nuttiness, but they rarely identify the problem. The problem is MARXISM! They rarely even use the word Marxism. How can we defeat this enemy if we don't even call it by name? It's like Harry Potter's Voldemort, the “You Know Who”.
Also, I have never heard the Three Stogies call for what **must** be done:
1) Remove your kids immediately
2) Close down the government school indoctrination camps. All of them!
Those three apples look like a disturbing reference to the Holy Trinity to me, better get rid of it. And one of the cherries is off the plate - does this mean that you are depicting the exclusion of diversity elements because this particular fruit is gay? One of the plums is half on, half off the plate; is this some kind of slam at persons of the transgender/transsexual/transvestite/confused persuasion? Well I think this is just the sort of trogloditic, hopelessly reactionary, ultra-conservative divisive hatemongering bilious lynch mob swill that should be taken out and burned along with the conterevolutionary enemies of the Party that perpetrated it. Death to the artist! The people demand justice!
Whatever they said he signed is null and void because minors can’t enter into any contracts...or so I thought.
“a policy for the class that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork”
I love it! Religious beliefs are put in the same category as violence, blood, and sexual connotations.
The Constitution does not allow anyone to restrict freedom of religious speech.
The only grounds for a “zero” IMHO are if he totally failed to follow the instructions for the assignment. If he drew a toad instead of a race car, then maybe a zero is OK. but it would seem that the youngster did draw an outdoor scene and so should be entitled to some credit.
He used the lines of perspective and I suspect this was one element of the drawing technique being taught.
I would also argue that the signing of the agreement was without consideration on the part of the teacher. All contracts need consideration to be binding.
If the teacher says that she is teaching the class in return, that does not count, because you cannot use a duty which already exists as consideration for an agreement.
I would also aregue that the teacher’s consideration, the promise to teach, has failed, thus constituting a breach of the contract, thus making any counterveiling obligation by the student void.
The new age of the Left is nothing more than tyrrany, an evil older than history itself, just as the new morality is nothing more than the age old immorality and the new justice is nothing more than the age old injustice.
The Left was designed and is populated by minds that are mediocre at best.
I’m all for free exercise of religion, but I have trouble calling that a “landscape drawing.” Even without the cross and the Scripture citation, it’s still not a landscape drawing.
I don’t know what the rest of the class produced, of course, but this example suggests the teacher is incompetent to teach art.
What it should come down to - did he fulfill the assignment with his work. If he did, then there is no way a zero is justified because the teacher didn’t agree with his expression.
Thanks for the email info. Letter sent.
How does Julie Millin teach art history without utilitzing artwork that expresses religious beliefs?
I’m certain if the kid had drawn planes flying into buildings with an Allah Akbar title, nothing would have been said.
I'd use that as CD cover art in a heartbeat!
The Constitution does not allow **government** to restrict free speech. It does not say “except in the government's prison-like kiddie indoctrination centers.”
Yet,... governemnt forbids free speech in its prison-like kiddie detention centers ( mis-named “schools”) every minute of every school day. Once children enter the government indoctrination camp the government tells them to SHUT UP!
That is why education must be privatized. Government schools, freedom of conscience, free speech, and the First Amendment can NOT coexist.
There is no possible way to resolve the conundrum. There are only two possible choices open to the school officials. No matter what they do they are in a First Amendment Catch 22.
1) They can forbid all religious expression. In this case they would be violating free speech, free expression of religious belief, and free press.
2) The government can allow full expression of religious belief. The problem here is that the students in the schools are essentially prisoners. They and their parents can NOT escape without serious police, foster care, and court action, and the **real** threat of incarceration. These captive students then have **forced** upon them the religious proselytizing of the other students. Also, the government curriculum itself can **NEVER** be religiously neutral.
There is only one way out of the conundrum: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.
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