“One member didn’t like it.” The Athenians had the “ostracism” for just such members.
http://www.hickoryrecord.com/mcdowell_news/news/article_4565e818-3d9c-11e2-a9af-001a4bcf6878.html
Pastors, public speak out on West Marion’s ‘God’ issue
The story from the local paper in Marion.
Jane Fonda? Is that you?
Didn't the character Syme in Orwell's 1984 have a similar problem, lamenting how few state-approved rhymes there were which could be used to substitute for the state-sanctioned "God" in their bowlderized versions of classic poems?
Regards,
For a first-grader, she writes well.
These frakkin' cowards need to be named and identified. If they are bold enough to speak out against something that offends them they should have the courage of their convictions and not hide behind administrative anonymity.
I'd be willing to bet these types of stories would disappear and become a rarity.
Either that or they should be told, "Your objection is noted. Now go and get 51% of the community to agree with you and speak out with you. Then we will consider your suggestions. Not before."
If I had unlimited funds and the time to pursue legal action I would respond to these sorts of moves by demanding the removal of the Word “dog” from all scholastic material. I was bitten by a dog once and feel the word is harmful to young minds.
If these nitwits can remove the word “God” I can demand the same letters be removed for my comfort.
A first grader is writing poems? I have my doubts about that.
I would never subject a child to the indoctrination at the Government schools..
I could see this happening in Durham or Cary, but Marion? Give me a break!
I guess it is definite: the NEA political correctness has penetrated the quiet little communities of the Bible Belt.
I work in McDowell County, but live elsewhere, and our kids are all grown & married. Otherwise, I’d be asking for a meeting with Dr. Gerri Martin & Mrs. Desarae Kirkpatrick.
Particularly infuriating is the school’s note that it has assigned multiple attorneys to this case, plus teachers and administrators. Hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of OUR MONEY being spend by these people to help Obama “fundamentally transform” the U.S.
This is the 2nd article in a few days about Foothills educators
in NC being incredibly stupid.
The other article was about a community college admin wanting
“Men at work” signs removed from the campus due to diversity issues.
I hope the liberalism of Asheville isn’t seeping of mountains.
As usual, the press’ account identifies the guilty party as the “school district”. I want to know exactly who in the school district made the decision, who approved the decision, who actually told the school to have the poem revised, and who at the school didn’t have the guts to tell the “school district” to go to hell. I also want to know exactly which member of the community made the initial complaint, or was that just a slick alias the “school district” used to justify making that call.
This state used to be full of very conservative people, mostly Democrats, but conservative. Somewhere along the way the communists and other assorted socialists decided to hide out from McCarthy by becoming Democrats. They even picked a new description for themselves so they wouldn’t be confused with the original conservative base. They became Progressives and under cover of party affiliation they took over control of most school operations, from the state down to local districts. It’s just sad that there are still so many hard heads around who keep voting them in, year after year, and never bother to look at what they are doing to the state.
Just goes to show you that I'm getting really old. I remember an America when the MAJORITY ruled, NOT the minority!!
The attack on Christianity and religion, in general, by soulless liberals is increasing. That tells me that we need to "cling to our guns and religion" even tighter and FIGHT BACK!!!!
This is disgusting.
These people would have censored these Japanese Americans in internment camps. Here is a sampling of poems written in 1945 by American teenagers in an internment camp in Arizona:
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/04/sorelle/poetry/wwii/poetry.html#poetry-children-US
To that one member of the 'community"- if you don't like it, do like we conservatives do when morons like you spew your anti-God venom; shake your head and ignore it!
Amazing. School officials that have no cell or home phones. /s
Actually, what is truly amazing is how far down this road of "separation of church and state" we have allowed ourselves to come. The first amendment constrains the Federal congress and nothing else. Public state schools are free to do what they will when it comes to religious issues but have allowed themselves to be cow-towed into submission to the secular forces of today's society. Religious people of all denominations had better start putting their feet down and reversing this or as Ronald Reagan put it: "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."