BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS: Military: Teachers harassing soldiers' kids

Public-school teachers in Maine – at least 12 of them – have told children of recently called-up National Guard members that any attack on Iraq would be illegal and immoral, thus insinuating that the students' parents are equally immoral, according to reports by local Guard personnel.

WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine, first reported Friday that family members of two National Guard units recently deployed reported to the Guard's Family Assistance Program that teachers were making harassing comments to their children. The assistance program is designed to help families of Guard members who are called to active duty with information about various programs that can help them during deployments.

WABI reporter Alan Grover told WND that reports of the harassment had come in from 12 different schools across the state. Personnel from the Family Assistance Program collected the 12 reports after interviewing 80 Guard families. Since there are 600 such families affected, the number of actual incidents likely is higher.

State Education Commissioner Duke Albanese downplayed the matter, saying there were only "three anecdotal incidents," according to the Bangor Daily News.

Adjutant Gen. Joseph Tinkham of the Guard, however, confirmed that there were specific instances of harassment and that the names of the teachers, locations and dates have been recorded. The Guard has decided not to release those names for fear of repercussions for the students involved and instead will allow individual parents to decide if they want to confront the teachers publicly.

WABI also reported that Albanese has sent a letter to the state's teachers, encouraging them to be mindful of the children of military personnel and to be balanced in discussing various views about a potential war.

According to the TV station, principals and guidance counselors also have made disparaging remarks to students about their parents' participation in war preparations.

In a related matter, WABI reports that the National Guard instructed soldiers to meet with school personnel prior to deploying to inform them of the deployment and let them know that the children of soldiers may have some special emotional issues to deal with as a result. In response, according to the report, school personnel were less than cooperative, telling the soldiers, in effect, "That's your problem."

"So if you can humor a fellow FReeper for a moment..."

. . .well, your thoughts re what is happening out there in Liberal Land where 'Massuh's/Government/PC' rule are right on the money. . .

However, only referenced the phone call, in an innocent, rambling kind of way to excuse my having posted an article which had already been posted - albeit, escaping 'search' with slightly different title as well. . .

So while your political analysis is most astute; you did take a rather scenic trip from point 'A;' to point 'B'!

Also, I am not a teacher in Maine (though I have a cousin up there somewhere); nor do I 'hold' in any classroom; but I never stop my 'teachin/preachin' about the dire consequences of Liberalism on the American landscape which gives rise to our American Soul. . ..

. . .and at that point, our stories merge with a 'meeting of minds'. And if your assumptions re the 'phone call' were mistaken. . .your conclusions, nonetheless, are in fact, politically correct - that is 'PC' the right way. . .

Great homepage BTW!

Well, like I said; I never won any prizes for prescience or prophetic aptitude, so am not surprised that I misread the tea leaves entirely. It's not the first time, and probably won't be the last.

An active imagination can be fun, but can also lead one off down one of those scenic alternative routes you mention, sans road map!

This time it took wings, and was flapping around up there with the black helicoptors for a while. Thanks for setting me straight.

A "Support Our Troops" Rally was held in Brunswick, ME this afternoon - and will be every Sat. at 4PM through the Winter at least.

I'd say about 80% of the passing cars on Maine St. tooted, waved, thumb-up, and some even cranked down the windows and waved American flags - even a Police Cruiser gave us an enthusiastic toot!; it was great!

We heard about a Teacher in the local High School who assigned a homework project to his class consisting of a list of four of the World's major Religions. They were to select one of these Religions, and on the basis of that Faith's values and beliefs, write a paper explaining how the US Invasion of Iraq is immoral and wrong.

That situation is going to be dealt with locally, it seems.

Wouldn't it be interesting if half of that class, instead of turning in that assignment, handed Komrade "Teacher" a copy of the Sedition Act?

I don't remember where I heard it, but it seems that a bunch of Komrade teachers are planning to have some sort of "Teachers For Peace" demonstration up around Bangor.

Get this; a bunch of their own Students are planning a Pro-America Support Our Troops Counter-Demonstration against them!
It might be worth the trip up there to see that!
Hopefully some FReeper up that way might share details.

Towards the end of our Brunswick Rally, along comes a big yellow School Bus loaded with what appeared to be a High-School Band. And much to our surprise, IT sounded a volley of toots - and the kids were cheering us and waving out the windows as they went by!

"Glory Hallaluia!!" I roared; "De Walls Ob Jericho be comin' DOWN!!!"

I seems like we just might be getting to them, folks! Sure made my day!

YEEEEEEEEEEE - HAaah!!!

Thanks for the update. The stealth effort has backfired.

This teacher should be jobless. Self-defense is defensible for Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus (assuming I identified the Big 4 properly). The only debating points are:
- whether someone has WMDs
- whether it is moral to strike "first" at someone who indeed has WMDs, has used them in the past on opponents, and made his intention to use them on others abundantly clear. The answer is "yes," simply because we're talking about the potential for losing millions of innocent lives if we don't.

Even if the issue wer debatable (which because of the facts it isn't), the assignment of a paper designed to force students to come to a particular false conclusion is despicable and out of line.

In a related matter, WABI reports that the National Guard instructed soldiers to meet with school personnel prior to deploying to inform them of the deployment and let them know that the children of soldiers may have some special emotional issues to deal with as a result. In response, according to the report, school personnel were less than cooperative, telling the soldiers, in effect, "That's your problem."

OK, let me be blunt here...

The PROPER respose is "OK, you school-Fascists will no longer get ONE THIN DIME in Federal monies, since you have violated Federal statutes governing "Equal Protection"...nor will you get one thin dime of LOCAL taxes since you have violated STATE statutes as well."

When you come crying for more $$$ for your bloated, pork-laden scumbag sex-ed/homo-loving crap educational programs that are no longer funded...we all will look you IN THE EYE and say...

"That's your problem."

[ "In response, according to the report, school personnel were less than cooperative, telling the soldiers, in effect, "That's your problem."

OK, let me be blunt here...

When you come crying for more $$$ for your bloated, pork-laden scumbag sex-ed/homo-loving crap educational programs that are no longer funded...we all will look you IN THE EYE and say...

"That's your problem."]

. . .well worth repeating your 'on message Wisdom'. . .hope this will message will be copied to all School Board members;PTO lists et al. . .'letter to Editor'. . .

Sadly, we do have to fight for our Military; and fight against the 'religion' of the Marxist Socialists that is claiming our schools.

Sadly, we do have to fight for our Military; and fight against the 'religion' of the Marxist Socialists that is claiming our schools.

You will not fight alone. Time to take it to these fascists...HARD!

OK, FReepers and FReeperettes...the "battle call" has been sounded! Time to mount up and remove the filth, wherever they are. Do it locally, do it Nationally, but DO IT!

These Fascist-Socialist amalgams are like cockroaches...the darker it is, the better they operate.

Bring on the light! Smoke 'em out wherever they are...allow them NO cover! Do NOT stop hammering them until AFTER they stop moving for at least 5 minutes! No rest, no reprieve...you get them on the run, and you keep pressing till they run out of room to run!

This time, we don't paly nice and by the old rules!

This time we finish it!

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