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'Freedom' Banned in School
WorldNetDaily ^ | 20 April 2002 | Joel Miller

Posted on 04/24/2002 9:28:29 AM PDT by Spiff

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1 posted on 04/24/2002 9:28:29 AM PDT by Spiff
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To: Spiff
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2 posted on 04/24/2002 9:33:50 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Spiff
It would have been nice if the name of the offending Michigan Youth Indoctrination Center was included in the article. The Rutherford Institute hasn't put their Apr 17 issue of Insider online yet, that I could see. I'll keep searching for info.
3 posted on 04/24/2002 9:34:50 AM PDT by Spiff
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Following this line of logic (is logic a word that can be used in these situations?), no music should be allowed, period! After all, not all students are as musically gifted as others. I can see the potential for hurt feelings or low self-esteem. Can't have that.

It follws the liberal PC attitude that since everyone can't win, everyone should be losers.

4 posted on 04/24/2002 9:36:00 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: Spiff
Same: I would like to see the original.
5 posted on 04/24/2002 9:36:35 AM PDT by TopQuark
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To: Spiff
How many countries around the world would treat an American citizen with the "respect" that these flippin' do-gooders yap about?????

NONE!!!!

It's time for the American public to stand up to the liberal PR machine and the media. This nonsense is ruining our Counrty!

6 posted on 04/24/2002 9:38:10 AM PDT by Icthus
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I can see the potential for hurt feelings or low self-esteem. Can't have that.

Indeed!

We're just lucky they haven't figured out a way to protect the short, fat and ugly kids from the tall, slender and pretty kids.

Of course, they did figure out how to deal with the smart kids: They dumb-down the entire student population. The dumb kids are still dumb, but they don't stick out any more.

7 posted on 04/24/2002 9:55:09 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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8 posted on 04/24/2002 10:24:53 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Spiff
No more Dixie, no more Jesus Loves Me, no more Amazing Grace....guess this one is ruled out too:

The Star Spangled Banner

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

9 posted on 04/24/2002 10:33:01 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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Has anyone found the name of the school yet? I'd like to make a few phone calls and get to the bottom of this.
10 posted on 04/24/2002 10:37:19 AM PDT by Spiff
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"Because some children in the school are not U.S. citizens."

There are only four kinds of people living in the U.S.A.:

Native Americans
Naturalized Americans
Guests of the American people
Criminals

The kids who are not U.S. citizens but are here legally are guests of our country, and as such ought to be taught to respect our cultural traditions.

The kids who are not U.S. citizens and are here illegally ought not be in our public schools, but ought to be deported, along with their parents.

What is so difficult to understand here?

11 posted on 04/24/2002 10:39:09 AM PDT by Maceman
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Check the Bump List folders for articles related to and descriptions of the above topic(s) or for other topics of interest.
12 posted on 04/24/2002 10:53:21 AM PDT by Free the USA
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The educrat is a fascist thug.
13 posted on 04/24/2002 10:54:40 AM PDT by moyden
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We're just lucky they haven't figured out a way to protect the short, fat and ugly kids from the tall, slender and pretty kids.

In a way they have. They have promoted promiscuity through a sex education which is more of a how-to manual that a this-is-what-it -is education. They have lowered our moral values to the point that all are equally squalid. To be an achiever, a true achiever rather than one given A's just for being there, and one of high standards and moral values, is much, much more difficult than it used to be. Those who make it are true heroes whether the are short and fat or trim and attractive. They, the powers that be, aren't so concerned with looks as they are with mandating mediocrity at all meaningful levels.

14 posted on 04/24/2002 11:00:29 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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A music teacher in an inner-city Michigan grade school

Bet it is in Detroit, maybe Fint but Detroit has a very large Arab population and is more likely.

The rest of Michigan is sane, honest!

a.cricket

15 posted on 04/24/2002 11:02:23 AM PDT by another cricket
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What is so difficult to understand here?

Nothing, but you are committing a no-no, you are thinking. That makes you a dangerous person who must be shouted down or silenced completely. You should be feeling, not thinking.

Just imagine yourself as a very young person from a totalitarian country and you are singing, or hearing, these songs with words like "freedom" and "liberty". How would that make you feel? Wouldn't you feel like a second rate person just because you are from a rotten country, something you had no control over?

No, you would probably feel exhilerated about these new concepts and delighted that you are in such a country. See, I knew you were dangerous! Regardless, these ideas must be stamped out. They are way overrated. Besides, it is something you need to be prepared to forget because your freedom will begone soon anyway, if we have our way.

16 posted on 04/24/2002 11:12:02 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: Spiff
This is taking the PC bit a little too far IMHO. In a nation founded on freedom teachers should NOT be reprimanded for teaching songs containing the word. Just wait..."freedom" will begin to have the same negative connotation given to the word "patriot" in recent years.
17 posted on 04/24/2002 11:13:11 AM PDT by callisto
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Fint=Flint

a.cricket

18 posted on 04/24/2002 11:25:27 AM PDT by another cricket
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To: Senator_Blutarski
We're just lucky they haven't figured out a way to protect the short, fat and ugly kids from the tall, slender and pretty kids.

They have figured out a way, one of my close friends has a younger brother in school, in gym class, the teacher breaks up the kids to do excersises, no sports that involve competition, and they're not allowed to act or do anything competitive if they have free time, plus no score or personal score keeping. No taunting, or even congrats, since congratualting a teamate on anything leaves people out. Same school also doesn't do dances or social activities because certain kids may get the feelings hurt, etc. Public school in my neighborhood.

19 posted on 04/24/2002 11:26:03 AM PDT by Sonny M
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Bump that!
20 posted on 04/24/2002 11:32:17 AM PDT by CyberCowboy777
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