[Publius]

Your tax dollars at work. Gotta get that conditioning started early.

A UNeesian point of view, rather than an American one.

[sport]

If I had a child in that school i would have been complaining.

If these sobs do not like this country, let them go to where the people they support govern.

Mfs like this and the press are getting our guys killed every day by encouraging the terrorists to fight on.

I am sick and tired of this. If it makes me a ob. So be it.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Of all the potential topics for children's songs, why does this person feel the need to stick war in their little minds? Seems kind of cruel to me. Why not sing songs expressing their hope they don't get killed in a car accident on the way home from school?

[VRWC_minion]

What if the kid had said, Pray to Jesus for peace ? Whats the chances Mary K would demand that line be kept ? hmmm ?

[Peace will be here soon]

The article does point out one very good thing : This all started from PARENTS COMPLAINING !! And only a few had to complain. It is funny how the libs praise those who speak out for their cause. But the street goes two ways, the liberals are finding that out and they hate it !!!

[Texas_Jarhead]

"'I feel I was being censored,' Mary told me yesterday."

Translation: She could no longer propagandize and indoctrinate her students.

[rattrap]

[q_an_a]

gee like everyone at your office can say anything they want to say. Not. Why is that the lefties are not only so good but so put upon? Who cares about their crap? Tell the paper to shove it too.

[appalachian_dweller]

Note to Mary K:

Nobody wants war but sometimes it better than the alternative. I'll die free before I live as a slave!

[beelzepug]

After reading 40-odd posts whacking this woman, allow me to play devil's advocate here and at least give her credit for adhering to her principles and leaving rather than letting her beliefs be compromised. Would that more liberals did that. And, the real biggie, she didn't sue anybody!

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

One less to brainwash the children.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

We are children of peace. We are the children of the world. We are children of dreams. And we are the children of the world. We are children of love. We are the children of the world. We don't want war anymore -- we are the children of the world.

If that's the quality of song she writes, she should have been fired for cause anyway.

[Redwood71]

""I feel I was being censored," Mary told me yesterday."

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You are, idiot! It is not within your position, or your teaching requirements, as an arts instructor, to teach personal theory on civics or government. Do your job, and you are fine. Don't do it, and be lucky you didn't get "canned." They still fire incompetent teachers, I believe. Keep your principles out of the classtoom. If I want my kids taught morals and ethics, I'll do it. You teach them learning skills.

[weegee]

Can kids opt out of singing her socialist worksongs? After all, the ACLU has fought the Pledge of Allegiance. Maybe we could get the kids to recite the loyalty oath that all foreign born citizens pledge when they become naturalized citizens.

The Oath of Allegiance:

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;

that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;

that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;

that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law;

that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law;

that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law;

and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;

so help me God.

I would not have them recite such a pledge in class as a legally binding commitment but they should be made aware of what "citizen" means in America. And no, we are not "children of the world".

[wimpycat]

The kids have no music at all. Just silence.

How sad. I think I'll just go cut my throat in protest, because this is so, so, sad, I don't think I can live with myself. The children will suffer forever because Mary the artist was silenced. Oh, cruel, cruel, beastly world! No more music for the children. Oh, the agony!

NOT!!!

[Sloth]

Sounds like she didn't need to lose her job for her political stand, but rather because those are the crappiest lyrics I've read in a long time.

[UnklGene]

Poor Mary K. She can put on her resume: "No Principles, no Class.

[Publius6961]

Hmmmmm.
A classroom is not a proletariat playground for the mentally or emotionally limited/challenged?

What a concept!

[Mo1]

Why do I get the feeling there is more to this story then what's being reported?

[ProudEagle]

One down, many, many more to go...

[csvset]

The kids would be better off learning a Sousa march.