[ladylib]

It's important for teachers to educate about current events, and this is a major current event right now," said Far West High School junior Darla Walters-Gary. "I personally find it hard to believe that anybody who is fully informed can be pro-war, but that's my personal opinion."

Jeez, even high-school girls have hyphenated names now.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

"I personally find it hard to believe that anybody who is fully informed can be pro-war, but that's my personal opinion."

Perhaps Darla should be asking that question of an Iraqi prisoner who’s rotting in a cell, whilst next door Saddams’ professional despoiler of women goes to work on his wife and kids.

[CdMGuy]

This is a school district that essentially is bankrupt financially, and morally as well. The majority of students graduating from the Oakland schools are sentenced to a life of poverty since they were robbed of an education. The pukes on the B of E are a bunch of left wing fanatics who will never recognize their failure to perform their duty, i.e., the education of Oakland's children.

[PokeyJoe]

Someone needs to inform this teeny bopper that nobody is "prowar" - but that sometimes war is the justified. Ask the Jews.

[ladylib]

The fifth-graders showed they understood that the United States once supported Iraq militarily.

"We think it's strange to go to war with a country you taught war to," student Emma Styles-Swaim said. "We think it's strange because, well, it's weird."

Well, the world of war is sometimes weird Emma Styles-Swain. So is the world of Oakland, CA (really another planet), as far as I'm concerned.

Now fifth grade girls have hyphenated names. What is with these hyphenated names? Is it a West Coast phenomonen? Perhaps the mothers aren't married to the fathers, so they incorporate each parent's name?