Posted on 10/11/2001 4:04:39 PM PDT by softengine
Aaron Petit is a 16-year-old student at Fairview High School in Cleveland, Ohio. His sister was injured in the World Trade Tower collapse. His brother is a Columbus firefighter. Aaron had some very strong feelings about the attack and about our response.
Aaron put some posters on his locker. One was the crying eagle picture created by D.E. Waldron and Guy Parneix that has been circulating around the Internet. The illustration does a beautiful job of expressing the sorrow that most Americans felt at the terrible loss of life in the terrorist attack on New York. The other poster was a depiction of American airplanes dropping bombs on Ashcanistan.
Well … along comes Associate Principal James Haughtaling. He didn’t like the signs. He yanked them down – and called Aaron to his office for a dressing-down. Haughtaling said the signs could – are you sitting down? – offend Middle Eastern students. The next day Aaron got a 10-DAY SUSPENSION for his actions.
So – this worthless government school administrator feels that an expression of sorrow and desire for retribution might be offensive to someone? Well, who the hell cares? The fact is we ARE bombing Afghanistan. The fact is Americans ARE upset – and crying over what happened in New York. These are facts. They can’t be changed. If the facts are offensive to some people – well, then, that just comes under the heading of "too damned bad.”
Can you imagine this, folks? A 10-day suspension?
Everywhere we turn we hear similar stories from various government schools. One kid is suspended for drawing a picture of the attack on New York and then smiling when he shows his work to the principal. We had that teacher who said that she wished the airplane had struck the White House and that George Bush had been there. Another teacher burns an American flag in the classroom. One school puts "God Bless America” on its marquee and the ACLU has an entire litter of gerbils.
When we get through with the war on terrorism overseas we need to concentrate on the war on intellectual terrorism in our nation’s government schools.
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I'll rephrase for clarification: It would be very satisfying if he would withdraw from the public school and go to a private school.
I'm glad you posted this article. I was going to, but found you already had. This is an outrage. I'm so sick of "hurt feelings" excuses that people use to shut others down. What about the feelings of the boy whose sister was injured?
God help us.
Mrs Kus
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