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Josh Barry, of Camp Hill, Penn., wants to know why the president of the local teacher’s union thinks he’s a neo-Nazi after he complained about a classroom assignment that he believed to be biased. “I’m Jewish and my wife is half-black, half-white,” Barry told me in a telephone interview. “I am the furthest thing from a neo-Nazi.” Last week, his daughter’s eighth grade American History class at East Pennsboro Middle School was asked to analyze a New York Times story about the recent government shutdown. Barry, who said he is a registered independent, read the story and then read a...

Message for wealth-bashing millionaire actor Ed Asner: Man up and take responsibility for lying to America's schoolchildren. Confronted by a producer for Fox News Channel's "The Sean Hannity Show" this week, the left-wing celebrity claimed he couldn't remember "a thing (he) said" on a vile propaganda video produced and published by the California Federation of Teachers. Asner narrated the unforgettable eight-minute anti-capitalist screed geared toward children. Think Occupy Wall Street meets Sesame Street. "Things go downhill in a happy and prosperous land after the rich decide they don't want to pay taxes anymore," Asner warbles in a folksy grandpa voice....

 The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) might finally be learning that bashing Israel isn’t a job for teachers. It is no secret that the teachers union did everything in its power to defeat Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his educational reforms during last year’s special election in California.  What wasn’t as widely known until this month was that UTLA has also been doing its part to bring Israel, a country many of UTLA’s radical leaders detest, to her knees.   Not until it was bombarded by complaints from concerned citizens did UTLA cancel its decision to host a meeting sponsored by the...

Plans made for teacher absences during big immigration protests - An entire school will relocate for a day and classes at other campuses may be combined Monday to cope with teachers calling in sick, school officials said Friday as they prepared for large-scale protests against immigration reform. And as the immigration debate showed no signs of leaving their doorstep, officials in the city's largest school district addressed concerns about a speech given Monday at Tucson High Magnet School in which a speaker said, "Republicans hate Latinos." Tucson Unified School District officials are taking their hardest stance against the walkouts to...

ABC13 Eyewitness News (10/21/04 - HOUSTON) — The Houston Federation of teachers says Mrs. Kerry probably didn't realize she insulted millions of teachers when she made the 'real job' comment. The First Lady actually worked here in Houston at Kennedy Elementary and in other schools across the state. Many in the teachers union are endorsing Senator John Kerry, and union leaders say her statement comes at a bad time. "Kerry's positions on education are solid, and he does exhibit respect for teachers," said Gayle Fallon with the Houston Federation of Teachers. "He needs to do a little work with his...

The head of the National Education Association opened the largest school union's annual convention yesterday with a call for public school teachers and employees to mobilize politically to help defeat President Bush this fall. "I know that if we put forth our best effort, we are going to win," Reg Weaver told a cheering audience in a 30-minute speech in which he criticized Mr. Bush and Education Secretary Rod Paige. "Our 2.7 million members can be the 'X-factor' in this election. We and our pro-public-education allies can and will make a decisive difference," he said. The convention votes tomorrow on...

<p>Tim Bueler, like many cocksure 17-year-olds, is strident in expressing his political beliefs.</p> <p>And to him, the Republican Party leans too far to the left.</p> <p>That was the spark that launched his Conservative Club at Rancho Cotate High School in the Sonoma County town of Rohnert Park and ignited two months of rhetorical ugliness on campus. It also put him on the conservative talk show circuit, including an appearance Thursday on Fox television's "The O'Reilly Factor."</p>

Tensions persist at RP school January 31, 2004 By CECILIA M. VEGA THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Amanda Clarke, a bubbly 17-year-old who wears a heart-shaped stars-and-stripes pin on her Rancho Cotate High sweat shirt, giggles with one of her best friends about how they used to pass notes to each other in P.E. class. Oscar Gutierrez, a fellow junior who sports a sweat shirt with the colors of the Mexican flag emblazoned on the back, jokes about how he was always a soccer fan before Amanda introduced him to hockey. Lately, the pair hasn't had a lot to laugh about. She...

<p>Tim Bueler, like many cocksure 17-year-olds, is strident in expressing his political beliefs.</p> <p>And, to him, the Republican Party leans too far to the left.</p> <p>That was the spark that launched his Conservative Club at Rancho Cotate High School in the Sonoma County town of Rohnert Park and ignited two months of rhetorical ugliness on campus. It also put him on the conservative talk show circuit, including an appearance Thursday on Fox television's blustery "The O'Reilly Factor" show.</p>

Fifteen police officers responded Friday to student unrest at Rohnert Park’s Rancho Cotate High, prompting an investigation into the disturbance and whether it related in any way to some students’ anger toward the school’s Conservative Club. School officials believe there were at least three separate disturbances, said district Superintendent Michael Watenpaugh. But he would not characterize the disturbances and he said it was too early to conclude whether any involved student fighting or threats. “Nothing similar to this has occurred in the four years that I’ve been principal,” Principal Mitchell Carter said of Friday’s unrest. The disturbances came as the...

Jewish World Review June 6, 2002/ 26 Sivan, 5762Larry Elder  Strange times at Santa Monica High http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | What causes poverty? A Santa Monica, Calif., high school teacher required his class to write an essay to address this question. Steve Miller, one of his students, attributed three things to poverty -- violent crime, government programs and irresponsible breeding. "In the United States," wrote Miller, "over the last 30 years, five trillion dollars (equated) have been spent battling poverty with no noticeable improvement. . . . Furthermore, according to the same study, when benefits for poor families are increased by one...

Today my teacher, a liberal whom I normally respect at least, tried to convince the class that Osama Bin Laden was remorseful and repentant for what he did--so he shouldn't get the death penalty and such. We were talking about what is justice and what are its limits (IE should Germans who are today discovered to be Nazi's be tried for there crimes) and a student brought up the point that OBL would never be forgiven in the USA. My teacher then shot back that he is remorseful and cannot sleep and needs tranquilizers to sleep at night. I told...