I ran across this while checking up on me and guinnessboy's fued with the Wrentham board of Selectman.
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Students cry foul after senator's speech
BY STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Friday, February 9, 2007 12:22 PM EST
State Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham (File photo)
WRENTHAM - State Sen. Scott Brown is being criticized by students of King Philip High School after he read them some Internet posting about him that were laced with foul language.
Brown, R-Wrentham, said he was merely pointing out to an assembly how foul the posting about him were.
He said some of the criticisms of him posted by King Philip students contained the "f-word."
Other comments on the web site facebook.com were directed at his daughter, he said.
But, now the students are saying it was inappropriate for Brown to repeat the foul language at a school assembly and to single out students by name who had posted criticisms of him.
At issue was a debate over gay marriage and a teacher at the school who supports it. Brown is opposed to gay marriage.
"He was doing it loudly and pretty angrily," student Rachel William said of the comments read by Brown. "Some of the teachers tried to stop him, and said things like 'You shouldn't be naming students.' "
Student Stephen Small said, "Some teachers immediately were outraged to hear the language that was used ... some people still feel it was inappropriate to read them word for word."
Brown defended himself.
"What I was doing was reading from what they had written about me and about my family," Brown said. "I actually called them on it. I said 'Now there's hate speech, and then there's respectful proper speech."
If Scott Brown was a Democrat instead of a Republican, does anybody really think that the mainstream media would of treated the situation exactly the same way? The mainstream media double-standard against the Republican Party on everything drives all of us conservatives crazy! If the mainstream media was truly "all neutral, all of the time" on everything, then these situations wouldn't be so bad.
"The senator also said Ferreira was misusing his position as a teacher to politically influence students."
Teachers trying to influence students with politics? That would be a first!
Brown is one of the [few] good guys on Beacon Hill.
Also, wasn't KP where two graduates were accepted to West Point last year, and the principal was trying to prevent them from receiving awards at the schoarship ceremony, because it wasn't faaaaaair to the other kids?