Teacher's Anti-Bush Pin Stirs Controversy...(Watch your kids warning)

Fox News ^ | 03/04/03 | Carol McKinley and Liza Porteus

[Blue Scourge]

CONIFER, Colo. — As talk of war escalates, school boards across the country are grappling with the First Amendment: from first graders making peace posters to whether teachers can wear anti-war pins.

Some parents in Conifer, Colo., are fuming that a sixth-grade teacher wore a pin that said, "Not My President, Not My War," on a class trip.

When Linda Fowler's son came home from West Jefferson Middle School wondering why his teacher was against a possible war with Iraq, she took it personally.

"I'm not afraid to stand up for my country," said Fowler, whose father and grandfather are both war veterans. "I have family and friends that are currently in the military … you are crossing the line of what many Americans are teaching their children -- to be proud Americans.".....

[Blue Scourge]

Just when you thought it was safe to send your kids to Public schools....

[anniegetyourgun]

It's never been particularly safe to send your kids to a government school, where the motto is "indoctrinate to educate"......

[LauraJean]

I understand the teacher feels this is a free speech issue. But let some kid bring in candy canes for Christmas and she would no doubt complain about religion being brought into the classroom.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Just when you thought it was safe to send your kids to Public schools....

Who was ever foolish enough to think that? I'll be damned if my children EVER set foot inside a public school.

[NetValue]

They will keep it up until a few angry parents drag their sorry a$$e$ union around the schoolyard a few times.

[Illbay]

Been arguing all day with a bunch that thought it was fine for two Washington state legislators to walk out during a prayer given in the legislative chambers by a Muslim cleric.

I'll be looking on with interest to find if the same people who thought THAT was "standing up for principle" will criticize this teacher for doing the same thing.

FWIW, I think this teacher is WAY, WAY out of line.

[ChuckHam]

Search is your friend. Already posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/856855/posts

[Blue Scourge]

Whoops, my bad... : )

[demnomo]

The child's mom should send her son to school wearing a t-shirt that has photos of the WTC towers in flames, gassed Iraqi Kurds and a choice quote from one of President Bushes' excellent speeches printed underneath. (It would be good to have President Bushes' unflinching face super-imposed over the pictures.) That ought to give that teacher (ie: anti-American, Bush-hating, Clinton-adoring leftist indoctrinator) pause. Hey, the kid is entitled to his rights under the 1st Amendment.

[Gun142]

Look at this crap
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/mar03/122534.asp

[riri]

I am watching and waiting for something like this to happen...I will flip my lid.

[Sergio]

Wonder how the school district would feel if the teacher were wearing a lapel pin that said, "Not my school board. Not my rules."?

If the teachers stuck to readin', writin', and rithmatic, and cut out all the feel good, social experimentation, they wouldn't get into trouble, now would they?

If there was one union this country could do without, it's the teachers union.

Just my 2 cents.

Best Regards

Sergio

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Just when you thought it was safe to send your kids to Public schools....

Give it a rest, will ya'?

You can meet @$$holes like that in any store, church or movie theatre on any street in America. It's got nothing to do with public school. The teacher wore a pin. The article does not say the teahcer was using this as a mainstay of his/her curriculum.

It was the parent that got upset, not the student. The student only made an inquiry out of a a natural, healthy curiosity.

At least that's my take. But it seems it doesn't take much to get the pro-homeschooling forces out of the woodwork sometimes.

[hoosier_RW_conspirator]

My thoughts exactly! And I bet that student would be suspended so fast your head would spin (no doubt for violating the school's "dress code")!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I don't know about you, but I don't think it's safe...

[MonroeDNA]

Never underestimate the low-level communist influence that percolates through society. They mean to influence you, and especially your children.

Bring back the blacklist, pronto.

Let's out these people, wherever they lurk.

Reagan set them back 30 years, but they have regrouped.

[MonroeDNA]

I think it is fine for the legislators to walk out during Muslem lead prayer. I applaud them. I also think it's fine that we come down hard on the teacher, as we should. Fire her.

No inconsitency at all, for those who believe in America, and its values.

Not all cultures are equal; in fact, most are very much inferior, because they rely on the "state" to give them freedom, or not.

Our freedom is NOT granted by the state. We allow the State to exist, not the other way around.

Individual liberty is simply the best system, bar none.

That gives you the right to speak freely. That also gives us the right to protest against you, and to call for your resignation, or boycott your movies. Just not at the point of a gun, unlike all socialist systems.

You can say what you want, and we can protest what you say. That is our system.

[MonroeDNA]

Yes, it is government schools.

In private schools, this teacher would be fired.

In government schools, the kids get indoctrinated. The pin says it all.

School choice!

[Illbay]

I think it is fine for the legislators to walk out during Muslem lead prayer. I applaud them. I also think it's fine that we come down hard on the teacher, as we should. Fire her

They all should be fired.

The teacher has no right to impose her views while she is in responsible charge of her community's children. The legislators have no right to show disrespect to the Constitutional principles of governmental neutrality toward religion when theyy are in their official capacities.

When at home, the teacher may spout off all she wants. When they are in their private lives, the legislators can be bigotted all they wish.

WIth authority comes responsibility.