Teachers Hold Up Anti-War Signs During Assembly Honoring Military

RealClearPolitics ^ | June 14, 2010 | RealClearPolitics

[i88schwartz]

At an assembly honoring students who enlisted in the armed forces, teachers held up anti-war signs.

[Doc Savage]

Line’em up and shoot’em!

[xzins]

The soldiers fight to preserve the teachers’ right to hold up their signs.

[RWB Patriot]

If schools allow Christians to pray, does that not mean they have to allow time for Muslims to pray? For Bhuddists? Hindus? For who knows how many different religious beliefs inhabit them?

That is the purpose for seperation of church and state, to avoid discrimination.

[RWB Patriot]

“Under conditions of her employment, the principal and the school board that employs her has the right to decide what she can and can’t say during work hours.”

Then let them make the decision, as they have that authority. You and I don’t, so we have no right to go in with our tempers aflame.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

Thomas Paine

[freespirited]

This idiot is Code Pink material. I’ll be happy to give her a reference if she will resign.

[KungFuBrad]

I have not seen it mentioned here yet. If I missed it I apologize. No one has said anything about what the principal said. he said that what she did was best suited for a classroom. NO!! What she did was best suited NOT IN School. Her political views have no place in the gym or in the classroom. Her job is to teach her subject in a way that causes children to learn and to use critical thinking.

So the problem is deeper then the teacher. The fact the principal thinks it would be ok for her to preach a political position in the classroom shows how ingrained this kind of thinking is. His reply should have been that this kind of protesting in not acceptable anywhere or by any employee at the school.

[BonRad]

Maid in Massachusetts

[RWB Patriot]

Guys, I’m not siding with this woman and I’m not defending her actions as moral. I’m defending the indisputable fact of liberty: that if one man loses his freedom, even over something I might find immoral, it means the loss of freedom for all men because it establishes the standard that liberty is open to interpretation.

[Tanniker Smith]

One time that I was proud of my otherwise liberal colleagues was after the commencement address at our high school graduation was given by an actor, working in television in Manhattan who was known by the principal, who managed to take a few shots at the war and the military in the middle of an incredibly dull and tedious speech. My colleagues were upset because quite a few of the graduates were heading into the services, for some of them, it's their ticket out of the previous lives, for others, it's what their fathers did (or still do).

Time and a place, folks. Time and a place.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Back to Con Law 101 with you. The First Amendment is not absolute.

[raccoonradio]

I guess there was a big rally today with students waving flags and supporting the students who are entering the
military, etc.

[RWB Patriot]

Right; among others, it doesn’t protect speech that is a call to violence and it doesn’t protect treason (levying war against the US or providing aid and comfort to her enemies), but a sign saying “End War” (isn’t that what we should all strive for, just not in the manner of the peaceniks?) is neither.

[April Lexington]

These “teachers” should have been beaten with baseball bats out in the parking lot...

[terycarl]

If schools allow Christians to pray, does that not mean they have to allow time for Muslims to pray? For Bhuddists? Hindus? For who knows how many different religious beliefs inhabit them?

That is the purpose for seperation of church and state, to avoid discrimination.

of ourse it does....between 7:30 and 8:00 is prayer time.....pray to whomever you choose, put a towel on the floor if you please, shake your prayer rattle, say the rosary....but the government should shut the hell up.

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[RWB Patriot]

What about the other parts of their beliefs? Should schools restrict their subjects, their lunch menus, etc?

[LibFreeOrDie]

Article/video of the Support The Troops rally held by some of the students: (Note the tie worn by the principal!)

http://wbztv.com/local/yarmouth.support.troops.2.1751325.html

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Suspend this fool for the next semester. Let her taste unemployment without benefits.

We cannot have fools teaching our children. They have enough fools to see on TV and in Congress.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Gosh, that’s a terrible picture. All the more so because if my father had listened to the doctors instead of God, that could’ve been me. As it was, both my mom and I pulled through OK.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"The fact that, regardless of how distasteful her opinion is, it’s protected speech."She has a right to say what she wants, but she does not have a right to be a government teacher. She should be fired for abuse.

[DebraAI]

Every time I read a story like this it makes me think how much I can’t wait for November.