Posted on 03/23/2013 5:35:52 AM PDT by IbJensen
March 22, 2013 (American Life League) - An exemplary math and computer science teacher has been unjustly escorted out of Benson High School by police following a protracted battle with school officials about Planned Parenthood’s presence in the school and its association with his students.
(Bill Diss)
Bill Diss was notified on Tuesday after the last student left his class that he was being placed immediately on administrative leave “pending a recommendation to the superintendent that you be dismissed from your employment with Portland public schools for reasons that have been discussed with you.” The mild-mannered Mr. Diss told STOPP that he was given only a few minutes to gather his belongings before police escorted him out. He was ordered not to return to the Portland, Oregon, school where he has taught for 11 years.
Mr. Diss is an outstanding teacher, who recently was awarded certification and recognition as the only teacher in Oregon who is qualified to teach college level computer science to high school students for dual credit. He has taught at the college and high school level for a total of 18 years.
Planned Parenthood has been in pursuit of Mr. Diss since 2007 when he began organizing efforts to stop Planned Parenthood. A STOPP press release from February of 2009 noted that Planned Parenthood of Columbia Willamette wanted Bill Diss’ teaching license revoked. The press release quoted American Life League’s Jim Sedlak: “Bill has organized one of the most effective efforts against Planned Parenthood in the country. It’s no surprise Planned Parenthood will resort to anything—even going after his teaching license—in order to silence him.”
Bill was opposing, on his own time, outside of any school activities, the construction of a Planned Parenthood killing center in an African American neighborhood in Portland. The Planned Parenthood business was eventually built, and today targets minority women for abortions.
Planned Parenthood was unsuccessful in its revocation bid but, incredibly, a decree came from the school district that Bill could not indicate that he was a teacher at Benson or that he taught for the Portland schools when he was giving talks outside the school.
Things really started heating up again at the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year when Planned Parenthood of Columbia Willamette began to push its Teen Outreach Program (TOP) in partnership with Benson High School. The program is fueled by a multi-million dollar Obamacare teen pregnancy prevention grant, funneled through a coalition of Planned Parenthood affiliates. Benson High is located in the inner city, where sixty-two percent of the students qualify for free or reduced price lunches.
On September 17, 2012, Planned Parenthood operatives entered Mr. Diss’ classroom where he was tutoring students in basic math skills and other subjects. They expected to be given the floor to recruit students for the Teen Outreach Program. Because Mr. Diss had been notified that TOP representatives were coming to speak to the class and they produced ID showing they were from Planned Parenthood rather than TOP, Mr. Diss asked them to leave his classroom. They left, and a few moments later the principal and vice principal came to remove Mr. Diss from class.
The next day he was forced to sit through a Planned Parenthood presentation. “They were extremely aggressive in obtaining the children’s signatures by promising them all sorts of gifts and cash,” Bill said. Planned Parenthood filed a formal complaint against Mr. Diss with the school. You can read STOPP’s coverage about the events of that day and the TOP permission forms here.
Mr. Diss later discovered that the TOP permission form that was sent home the first day of school to Vietnamese-speaking parents used his name in a way that made it seem that he approved of the program. Mr. Diss’ attorney sent a notice to Planned Parenthood and Portland Public Schools complaining of defamation and demanding a retraction of information they sent to parents that indicated he approved of Planned Parenthood and the TOP program. He also noted harassment, emotional distress, and civil rights violations by the school in persecuting him and his Christian faith—all of which have been ongoing since the beginning of the school year. The school never issued a retraction.
Since then, Mr. Diss has received biweekly letters from the school, in effect nit-picking his teaching skills and accusing him of things like too much repetition in his mathematics classes, where he was told he could not teach the multiplication tables to math deficient students and could not review factoring. Students were allowed to withdraw from his classes because they did not want to do the extra work required to bring them up to speed in math. He has been through a dozen administrative hearings this year. Two weeks ago he was informed that his contract will not be renewed next year. When he was booted from the school on Tuesday, the only reason given was “for reasons already discussed.”
It is outrageous that Mr. Diss—an outstanding, well-loved teacher—has been totally trampled by this school district at the behest of Planned Parenthood because he cares deeply about the welfare of his students, and for exercising his First Amendment rights to speak out about the injustice of having Planned Parenthood in the community and in the classrooms. The TOP program he objects to even allows students to leave the campus after hours with Planned Parenthood employees.
Let us not forget, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette is the same organization that is behind the disgusting video website Take Care Down There that features skits with such titles as “Horse Penis Virus,” “Bring your sister,” “I didn’t spew,” “Hot & heavy,” “Let me do me,” “Threesome,” and the “Down There Song.”
This is the influence that Mr. Diss is fighting. And this is what he has been harassed, and summarily dismissed, for fighting. If you are an Oregon resident who is concerned about this huge injustice, contact your state legislators and the state board of education and pass this information along to them, asking that they help right this horrible wrong. In addition, please pass this information along to other residents of Oregon and ask them to take action.
Nazi’s surround us from every angle. And we watch the trains headed to the camps and wonder...
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LEX
Then you have a VERY short-sighted view/knowledge of history. "Public Schools" worked just fine as long as funding and control were at the LOCAL level.
Many of them were as good or better than the best private schools working with less funding and a "lesser" class of students.
The problems started when the influx of money to the schools (and thus control) moved from the local community to the state and then later to the federal level.
The idea that public schools of any sort are automatically "bad" is ludicrous.
Watch the PP video from their web site. [barf alert - I mean that literally]
http://www.takecaredownthere.org/#/watch/i-didnt-spew/
I appreciate your prayer for this cause but I have to ask you, do Catholics pray through Mary to the Father?
Maybe so, but Planned Parenthood has the full backing of the Republican Establishment.
Just a small preview of the coming persecution...
“The idea that public schools of any sort are automatically “bad” is ludicrous.”
Actually, the system began to rot from within when atheist/socialist John Dewey became the dominant influence in American education. The reading methods were sabotaged, resulting in ever-increasing illiteracy until the rate now hovers around 40% to 50% and higher in some school districts. Every child who can’t read becomes a low-information voter.
“...and accusing him of things like too much repetition in his mathematics classes, where he was told he could not teach the MULTIPLICATION TABLES to math deficient students and could not review FACTORING.”
(I’ll leave the Planned Parenthood end of this story to others, and I’ll comment on the above)
So, here we are. A MATH TEACHER is losing his job, in part, because he was attempting to teach multiplication and factoring to kids who OBVIOUSLY hadn’t learned it in the wonderful and progressive Portland School District.
Yes, you parents of public school kids, feel free to SNICKER, smug that it cannot happen in your WONDERFUL public school because you see the teacher in church once in a while, but it’s NO DIFFERENT...except that they hide it better.
People of Texas are just learning this with CSCOPE (look it up), which was a TOTAL end-around of our (otherwise very good) school accountability system. 75% of our schools now use it, but no one really knows what’s in it, because parents simply don’t have access to the materials. And with 75% of our public schools using it, that means that a lot of WONDERFUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS are on that list.
So go snicker away, while your children get their lives wrecked, especially if they’re white, and ESPECIALLY if they’re male.
The public schools adopted the Prussian model after the civil war, which ipso facto, meant schools operated by the state. But public education, as originally under stood embraces the private schools as well, just as public heslth embraces all private medical facilities. Yes, the schools have socialized because the private schools are largely unable to compete financially.
wow
we need to abolish public schools and we need a separation of perverts and schools
> Maybe so, but Planned Parenthood has the full backing of
> the Republican Establishment.
Agreed.
And the Marxist concept of government-run, tax-funded schools also has the full backing of the Republican Establishment.
Yes, this is true. But his influence didn't begin to assert itself until the early 20th Century. Locally funded and controlled schools began with the first colonial settlements, so there is a lengthy period of time in which said public schools work just fine. Many of them were initiated by religious groups, true....but they were still locally funded and controlled.
The real death blow was "desegregation", in which courts basically took over many schools or placed them under (ultimate) federal control.
It only took one to three generations of locally controlled collectivist schooling to give the nation voters who were comfortable with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his compulsory-use, socialist-entitlement, and single-payer programs.
Children who attend collectivist and compulsory ( that means police enforcement) risk learning to be comfortable with government compulsion and socialism.
At first Obamacare won't be that bad. It will take a few generations to fully extinguish the moral and ethical values now found in the workers in today's health system. ( schools). Then when the true horror of socialist medicine ( schooling) is fully felt we will see the same arguments now used to urge reform of the government schools. For example:
Socialist medicine ( socialist-entitlement schooling) worked just find as long as the funding and control of the death panels was on the LOCAL level.
Many socialist hospitals( socialist-entitlement K-12 schools) were better than the best private hospitals ( schools).
The problem with socialist medicine ( socialist K-12 schooling) started with the influx of money to the hospitals ( collectivist school districts) and away from local control.
Socialist medicine ( socialist-schooling)was just fine until the unions moved in.
etc...etc....etc.
Fundamentally, socialism doesn't work. Socialist-entitlement and single-payer K-12 schooling gave the nation socialist presidents and was doomed to fail.
Perhaps true in some areas, but where I grew up (south Louisiana), there was still plenty of local control in spite of the intrusion of the state government.
"Yes, the schools have socialized because the private schools are largely unable to compete financially.
That may at one time have been true, but given the exponentially increasing cost of public education is certainly no longer so. The USA spends more for (and gets less out of) "public education" than any other country.
We could save oceans of money by closing the public schools and letting parents utilize the private sector and/or home school their children. Public schools cost a minimum of $10,000 per student whereas private schools cost on average $7,000 per student.
Think of the possibilities: Individual teachers (formerly employed by the public schools) could rent a single classroom from the now-bankrupt public school system and gather in as many voucher/supported students as they think they can teach. Those teachers who teach their subject well would make far more money than they are receiving now from the public/socialist system.
Remember that in the time of Adam Smith parents paid the professor directly.
These are the teachers who are greatly influencing the next generation of voters and will have great impact on the moral fiber of our nation in the near future.
2) Locally controlled collectivism is still COLLECTIVISM! Fundamentally, government schooling is ( and **always** has been) a socialist-entitlement, single-payer, compulsory-use, compulsory-funded, and price-fixed monopoly cartel! At first it offered the students a lukewarm and generic Protestant worldview. Today's collectivist K-12 schools are utterly GODLESS!
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