Teachers Support Peace, But Not Free Speech

SFFT ^ | 03-12-2003 | Matthew Dodd

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Older, but relevent.

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[CHICAGOFARMER]

* * These flaming Jerks need to listen to this tape. * *

* *Iraqi Women tells truth* *

This site is extremely busy please be patience. But it is worth the wait. You will have no question regarding the reason for the justification.

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[Leatherneck_MT]

No, these flaming jerks need to be taken out and stripped bare assed naked and then whipped with a cat o' nine tails.

Semper Fi

[CHICAGOFARMER]

yep

give them the cat of nines

[LiteKeeper]

hmmm?

[CheneyChick]

My good friend and neighbor came over for dinner last night. She is a California public school teacher (Middle School). I asked her about this and how she was handling the war discussion. She said it was encouraged at her school and there was research and healthy debate going on among the students. She very much supports what our President and our country is doing. Its not all bad here in Caifornia...

Cheers, CC :)

[CheneyChick]

Oops - typo - California.

[Protagoras]

Just abolish government schools and the problem disappears, violence is not needed.

[Sofa King]

Heh. You should have seen what happened yesterday at UNO. They had some guy very peacefully talking to whoever would listen about abortion. Some woman, who didn't like his message, started yelling and screaming, calling him an idiot, and saying as she walked away that she was going to get him thrown off campus. The guy responed politely, saying "thank you ma'am". The campus police came, but didn't do anyting.

[ladylib]

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

Maybe it would be a good idea for parents to tell their children to take what their teachers say with a grain of salt.

[uvular]

Neal Boortz talked to a mother of an elementary school kid in the Chicago area today (Prarie-something was the name of the school).

She had kids for war on one side of room and kids against war on other. Teacher asked this mother's kid to explain why he was for war, he did, and teacher berated him, told him his little brother may die from poison gasses. Teacher told kids to keep this discussion to themselves.

Mother took kid out of this school; sent him to grandma's in Florida.

[fulltlt]

In Batavia, IL they are not allowing the kids in the high school to put up support our troops signs but they have Amnesty International Peace Vigil signs plastered up everywhere in the school. Makes me sick.

[ladylib]

I'm sure this story will wind up talk radio sooner or later.

[weegee]

...a couple of disturbing articles about an anti-war protest at nearby Middlebury Union High School that was closed to reporters and to the parents of students (“A Trip to MUHS and Jail,” March 13, 2003, and “Freedom of Speech at MUHS?”).

Nothing in the school should ever be off limits to the parents of the students. The parents could be told that they are not to speak or disrupt any activities but they should always be permitted to observe.

[nmh]

Liberals are the ones that are intolerant.

[demkicker]

This story turns my stomach. Ron O'Neill needs to contact the Rutherford Institute and sue the pants off this school district. I just read this and was happy to see there is legal help to remedy these schools gone amok.

[SwinusMaximus]

More details on the Ron O'Neill story on this related thread: Click Here

[nebulas]

ANYTIME, I want to know what is going on in my childs school, I have the legal right to sit in on and monitor the class, activity, assembly or whatever. Now, I live in Texas and our laws are probably more open and reasonable than the ones in Vermont and Maine. I also don't have to give prior notice. This is not to say that we don't have our share of liberal educrats and if the parent does not know the law then you will be lied to and railroaded into doing what the educrats want. At the very least, I would have checked my children out of school until I could find out what was going on.

At this point, though, I would be seeking legal remedies and possibly filing wrongful arrest charges.

nebulas