thedrifter
11-07-05, 06:54 AM
When the Teachers ARE the Bullies
Written by Bob Parks
Monday, November 07, 2005
A couple of weeks ago, a local state representative was invited to come to my son’s high school government class. I assume it was to have someone who’s actually in government to describe the policy process from a first hand perspective. He’s lucky it didn’t really get “political.”
Under normal circumstances (like talking to adults) this kind of presentation would be acceptable as the recipients of the message could apply life experience and take from the speech what they would. Children however, have no such life experience and from their perspective, the presenter must be correct. In their reality, the teachers are always right since they give out the grades that determine that child’s future.
Liberals, who dominate the teaching profession, are obviously abusing this position of authority, and they’re cowards for doing so. There’s any number of conservatives who’d be honored to debate a teacher in the classroom setting. If you’re confident about your positions, why not defend them with someone who can at least fight back? Then again, that would take courage. Brainwashing kids does not.
“More than 1,000 students, many from Twin Cities high schools, skipped out on class and headed to the University of Minnesota to join a protest of the war in Iraq.
“The rally Wednesday, Organized by Youth Against War and Racism and the Socialist Alternative, began at Coffman Memorial Union and ended in front of the Army and Navy recruiting offices on Washington at Oak Street. The students also protested the presence of military recruiters on campus.
“ ‘It’s important to be part of something that will make a difference,’ said Andrew Worrall, 17, a Roseville Area High School student who snapped pictures for the student newspaper. He added: ‘Even if people don’t think it’s going to make a difference.’
“Police estimated the crowd at a little more than 1,000 people while protest organizer Ty Moore of Socialist Alternative put the number closer to 1,500.”
– Associated Press, Thursday November 3, 2005
We’re all friends here, so let’s be honest. This isn’t liberal indoctrination, per se. This is Democrat Party recruiting, and recruiting of the most innocent and gullible in our society: the children. Can anyone tell me the difference between recruiting for the Army and recruiting for the Democrats?
An Army recruiter cannot come into a classroom without an invitation. A student can say “no” to a recruiter. Democrat ideology enters the moment the majority of teachers come into the classroom. It’s not subtle, and children whose upbringing may contest the notions dictated by a teacher are forced into silence since an honest exchange of ideas is not what these teachers want. They want to make little liberals, pure and simple.
As some of you may know, a year ago last spring I was invited to debate the notion of Black Conservatism at Stanford Law College and it was carried on C-SPAN. At a reception in one of the halls following the debate, I was surrounded by a fairly large group of students who obviously never heard the words I used come out of a black face. I was happy to talk with these students, however it was sad that they were in one of the finest, most expensive law schools in the country and I was telling them something new.
“Van Nuys High School was temporarily locked down Wednesday after students protested against the Bush administration as part of a national demonstration.
“The lockout occurred as 1,000 Los Angeles students - including about 15 or 20 from Van Nuys High School who were accompanied by an administrator - left class to join a midday rally hosted by The World Can’t Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime. The New York-based group had staged protests in 70 U.S. cities.
“ ‘We had a few other kids, I suppose in sympathy, they went around campus uttering anti-Bush statements,’ said Principal Herman Clay, who locked down the campus between 10:45 a.m. and the end of lunch. ‘They had refused a directive to go to class.’
‘The Los Angeles protest included a midday march down Wilshire Boulevard and a rally held outside the Federal Building.”
– LA Daily News, November 3, 2005
Seeing how international test scores prove class time here in America is really important, why were these kids allowed to ditch class, especially when they truly had only one side of the issues? A side offered by a liberal who intentionally left impartiality at the front door?
I used the term “indoctrination” for a reason. Notice the use of liberal code words like “regime change.” Not the common, everyday language used by teenagers chatting on AIM. The anti-war rationales used by the kids are not the common verbiage used by kids on “Laguna Beach” or “The Real World.” These terms are recited by every leftist, anti-war, socialist fringe group walking. And that they are turning naïve kids into their newest footsoldiers is a plot worth derailing.
“From about 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, roughly 75 students staged a walkout on the front lawn of Princeton High School. The walkout, which coincided with a national World Can’t Wait demonstration day, was held between second and third periods. After marching several laps around the lawn, most students returned to the building. Meanwhile, district administration and staff lurked in the background, only interjecting to warn students of the imminent third-period bell.
“A handful of students did not heed their warning — and went on to New York City, where they met up with other young activists at Union Square in Manhattan.
“Held on the anniversary of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election, the event was meant to protest his policies. Specifically, it rebuked what organizers cited as the fiscal irresponsibility, lack of foresight and corruption rampant in Washington. It also opposed the president’s policies on education, international relations, civil liberties and the environment.”
– The Princeton Packet, November 4, 2005
Seeing how well kids are taught nowadays, I wish I could have pulled one of them over and asked him or her what policies they opposed, in detail? Do you think any of them know what the deficit is and if it went up or down since last year? Speaking of deficit spending, any of these newly fiscally responsible kids want to curb their cellphone usage so they don’t spend more than their parents earn? Didn’t think so.
And of all people, kids are going to criticize anyone about a lack of foresight? How many of these kids consistently respond to their own wrongdoings with “I dunno….”
What government corruption are these youth specifically alluding to? Do they know any details or do they just repeat that some undercover CIA agent was ratted on? They must really think that whole thing is so silly, seeing how it involves weapons and yellow sponge cake. And what education policies of Bush do they disagree with since almost all of them HATE school anyway? Or is it the President’s intent to make teachers accountable that’s the issue and those very teachers are passing on their frustrations with catchy phrases to their students?
“Chanting slogans like “More trees, less Bush,” and “What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like,” many students at PHS voiced strong objections to the current political regime.
“ ‘I think the war in Iraq is stupid and that we went in for the wrong reasons,’ junior Niall Lessard said. ‘We raised the deficit, and now there’s more money we owe.’
“Senior Avery Hookey expressed a similar viewpoint. ‘I feel enraged the Bush administration lied to us about the reasons we went to war,’ she said. ‘I feel it’s the responsibility of the young generation to speak out,’ she continued, ‘to stop being apathetic and stand up for what’s right.’ ”
Okay, kids. Without looking at the sign, how do you spell “impeach?”
Sorry, just messin’ with y’all.
Do these students know about the international intelligence received on WMD’s that almost all the politicians on Capitol Hill agreed on? “More trees, less Bush.” The very kids who now believe that oral sex is the equivalent of kissing, probably hear that term and visualize Bill Clinton before W.
Don’t get me wrong, youthful protest is a good thing. Knowledge of the issues is a good thing. None of these concerned younger citizens, however, would be at an anti-war march during summer vacation. All of a sudden, getting out of bed before 11 am would certify the hollowness of their “concern.”
“Police estimate that up to 1,000 protesters took part Wednesday afternoon in a student rally against the Iraq war and military recruiting in high schools. Organizers had urged high-school students to cut class to attend, and it appeared several hundred did. They were joined by college students, parents, adult protesters — even some teachers.
“Some wore face paint; others banged drums fashioned from water-cooler bottles. One student dragged a cardboard coffin containing shredded paper with the names of 2,000 U.S. troops who have died in Iraq.
“Other World Can’t Wait rallies also took place Wednesday in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.”
– Nick Perry and Sara Jean Green, Seattle Times, November 3, 2005
It’s one thing to teach kids about politics but to encourage them to leave school and risk arrest is irresponsible. How many of the parents who allowed their children to march would sue the school in a heartbeat if one of them got hurt? And I’d be willing to bet that a very small percentage of the protesters were the same teachers who riled the kids up in the first place.
I guess it’s another case of liberal do-as-I-say-not-as-I do.
Incidentally, how many of these kids took to the streets after 9/11 to protest the extremists who killed over 3,000 American citizens in less than five hours? Did their teachers join in with other liberals and teach their students that we had it coming? That may have been a rhetorical question, but what’s chilling is that somewhere in this country, some teachers did just that. Remember Ward Churchill?
“ ‘There’s a lot of people dying for no reason,’ said Rumana Jilo, 15, a freshman at Ingraham High School. Jilo, who is Muslim, said she’s angry at the way Bush brings Christianity into politics. ‘He’s trying to put everything on the Muslim population,’ she said.”
A lot of people in France would have to admit that Bush was right about some Muslims, like the ones burning down Paris neighborhoods. So much for tolerance and inclusion, which only works when both sides want such.
“Many were upset that military recruiters are allowed on school campuses.”
Most kids will see a military recruiter in their classroom fewer than four times their entire time in high school, yet some teachers are force-recruiting kids with liberalism everyday, kindergarten through their senior year in college. Military recruiters can’t drop a kid’s grade because they disagree with an unproven liberal concept. Some teachers will; most liberal ones do.
So much for the free expression of ideas….
“Women waved metal coat hangers to protest Bush’s recent U.S. Supreme Court nominees, whom they fear will revoke abortion rights. A group from Shoreline Community College wore orange jumpsuits — a reference to terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — with the words “American Torture Victim” written across their chests in black marker.”
Too bad the Shoreline Community College students aren’t told that the hunger strikes performed by Guantanamo detainees are for liberal American media consumption, and the strikers do so in shifts.
It’s also unfortunate that young teenage girls are so obsessed with abortion at such an early age. I wonder why a teacher hasn’t told these students that even if the Supreme Court reversed Roe vs. Wade tomorrow, abortion wouldn’t all of a sudden be illegal. It would become a state’s issue again and in a state like mine, Massachusetts, abortion would still be available and legal. But why would a teacher want to give their students facts? That would be--teaching!
There was a time when a parent had to hope the school bully didn’t pick on their kid. There’s not much one can do when the new school bullies can flunk a kid who dares fight back.
About the Writer: Bob Parks is a versatile writer, activist, and political campaigner, who currently resides in Boston.
Ellie
Written by Bob Parks
Monday, November 07, 2005
A couple of weeks ago, a local state representative was invited to come to my son’s high school government class. I assume it was to have someone who’s actually in government to describe the policy process from a first hand perspective. He’s lucky it didn’t really get “political.”
Under normal circumstances (like talking to adults) this kind of presentation would be acceptable as the recipients of the message could apply life experience and take from the speech what they would. Children however, have no such life experience and from their perspective, the presenter must be correct. In their reality, the teachers are always right since they give out the grades that determine that child’s future.
Liberals, who dominate the teaching profession, are obviously abusing this position of authority, and they’re cowards for doing so. There’s any number of conservatives who’d be honored to debate a teacher in the classroom setting. If you’re confident about your positions, why not defend them with someone who can at least fight back? Then again, that would take courage. Brainwashing kids does not.
“More than 1,000 students, many from Twin Cities high schools, skipped out on class and headed to the University of Minnesota to join a protest of the war in Iraq.
“The rally Wednesday, Organized by Youth Against War and Racism and the Socialist Alternative, began at Coffman Memorial Union and ended in front of the Army and Navy recruiting offices on Washington at Oak Street. The students also protested the presence of military recruiters on campus.
“ ‘It’s important to be part of something that will make a difference,’ said Andrew Worrall, 17, a Roseville Area High School student who snapped pictures for the student newspaper. He added: ‘Even if people don’t think it’s going to make a difference.’
“Police estimated the crowd at a little more than 1,000 people while protest organizer Ty Moore of Socialist Alternative put the number closer to 1,500.”
– Associated Press, Thursday November 3, 2005
We’re all friends here, so let’s be honest. This isn’t liberal indoctrination, per se. This is Democrat Party recruiting, and recruiting of the most innocent and gullible in our society: the children. Can anyone tell me the difference between recruiting for the Army and recruiting for the Democrats?
An Army recruiter cannot come into a classroom without an invitation. A student can say “no” to a recruiter. Democrat ideology enters the moment the majority of teachers come into the classroom. It’s not subtle, and children whose upbringing may contest the notions dictated by a teacher are forced into silence since an honest exchange of ideas is not what these teachers want. They want to make little liberals, pure and simple.
As some of you may know, a year ago last spring I was invited to debate the notion of Black Conservatism at Stanford Law College and it was carried on C-SPAN. At a reception in one of the halls following the debate, I was surrounded by a fairly large group of students who obviously never heard the words I used come out of a black face. I was happy to talk with these students, however it was sad that they were in one of the finest, most expensive law schools in the country and I was telling them something new.
“Van Nuys High School was temporarily locked down Wednesday after students protested against the Bush administration as part of a national demonstration.
“The lockout occurred as 1,000 Los Angeles students - including about 15 or 20 from Van Nuys High School who were accompanied by an administrator - left class to join a midday rally hosted by The World Can’t Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime. The New York-based group had staged protests in 70 U.S. cities.
“ ‘We had a few other kids, I suppose in sympathy, they went around campus uttering anti-Bush statements,’ said Principal Herman Clay, who locked down the campus between 10:45 a.m. and the end of lunch. ‘They had refused a directive to go to class.’
‘The Los Angeles protest included a midday march down Wilshire Boulevard and a rally held outside the Federal Building.”
– LA Daily News, November 3, 2005
Seeing how international test scores prove class time here in America is really important, why were these kids allowed to ditch class, especially when they truly had only one side of the issues? A side offered by a liberal who intentionally left impartiality at the front door?
I used the term “indoctrination” for a reason. Notice the use of liberal code words like “regime change.” Not the common, everyday language used by teenagers chatting on AIM. The anti-war rationales used by the kids are not the common verbiage used by kids on “Laguna Beach” or “The Real World.” These terms are recited by every leftist, anti-war, socialist fringe group walking. And that they are turning naïve kids into their newest footsoldiers is a plot worth derailing.
“From about 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, roughly 75 students staged a walkout on the front lawn of Princeton High School. The walkout, which coincided with a national World Can’t Wait demonstration day, was held between second and third periods. After marching several laps around the lawn, most students returned to the building. Meanwhile, district administration and staff lurked in the background, only interjecting to warn students of the imminent third-period bell.
“A handful of students did not heed their warning — and went on to New York City, where they met up with other young activists at Union Square in Manhattan.
“Held on the anniversary of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election, the event was meant to protest his policies. Specifically, it rebuked what organizers cited as the fiscal irresponsibility, lack of foresight and corruption rampant in Washington. It also opposed the president’s policies on education, international relations, civil liberties and the environment.”
– The Princeton Packet, November 4, 2005
Seeing how well kids are taught nowadays, I wish I could have pulled one of them over and asked him or her what policies they opposed, in detail? Do you think any of them know what the deficit is and if it went up or down since last year? Speaking of deficit spending, any of these newly fiscally responsible kids want to curb their cellphone usage so they don’t spend more than their parents earn? Didn’t think so.
And of all people, kids are going to criticize anyone about a lack of foresight? How many of these kids consistently respond to their own wrongdoings with “I dunno….”
What government corruption are these youth specifically alluding to? Do they know any details or do they just repeat that some undercover CIA agent was ratted on? They must really think that whole thing is so silly, seeing how it involves weapons and yellow sponge cake. And what education policies of Bush do they disagree with since almost all of them HATE school anyway? Or is it the President’s intent to make teachers accountable that’s the issue and those very teachers are passing on their frustrations with catchy phrases to their students?
“Chanting slogans like “More trees, less Bush,” and “What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like,” many students at PHS voiced strong objections to the current political regime.
“ ‘I think the war in Iraq is stupid and that we went in for the wrong reasons,’ junior Niall Lessard said. ‘We raised the deficit, and now there’s more money we owe.’
“Senior Avery Hookey expressed a similar viewpoint. ‘I feel enraged the Bush administration lied to us about the reasons we went to war,’ she said. ‘I feel it’s the responsibility of the young generation to speak out,’ she continued, ‘to stop being apathetic and stand up for what’s right.’ ”
Okay, kids. Without looking at the sign, how do you spell “impeach?”
Sorry, just messin’ with y’all.
Do these students know about the international intelligence received on WMD’s that almost all the politicians on Capitol Hill agreed on? “More trees, less Bush.” The very kids who now believe that oral sex is the equivalent of kissing, probably hear that term and visualize Bill Clinton before W.
Don’t get me wrong, youthful protest is a good thing. Knowledge of the issues is a good thing. None of these concerned younger citizens, however, would be at an anti-war march during summer vacation. All of a sudden, getting out of bed before 11 am would certify the hollowness of their “concern.”
“Police estimate that up to 1,000 protesters took part Wednesday afternoon in a student rally against the Iraq war and military recruiting in high schools. Organizers had urged high-school students to cut class to attend, and it appeared several hundred did. They were joined by college students, parents, adult protesters — even some teachers.
“Some wore face paint; others banged drums fashioned from water-cooler bottles. One student dragged a cardboard coffin containing shredded paper with the names of 2,000 U.S. troops who have died in Iraq.
“Other World Can’t Wait rallies also took place Wednesday in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.”
– Nick Perry and Sara Jean Green, Seattle Times, November 3, 2005
It’s one thing to teach kids about politics but to encourage them to leave school and risk arrest is irresponsible. How many of the parents who allowed their children to march would sue the school in a heartbeat if one of them got hurt? And I’d be willing to bet that a very small percentage of the protesters were the same teachers who riled the kids up in the first place.
I guess it’s another case of liberal do-as-I-say-not-as-I do.
Incidentally, how many of these kids took to the streets after 9/11 to protest the extremists who killed over 3,000 American citizens in less than five hours? Did their teachers join in with other liberals and teach their students that we had it coming? That may have been a rhetorical question, but what’s chilling is that somewhere in this country, some teachers did just that. Remember Ward Churchill?
“ ‘There’s a lot of people dying for no reason,’ said Rumana Jilo, 15, a freshman at Ingraham High School. Jilo, who is Muslim, said she’s angry at the way Bush brings Christianity into politics. ‘He’s trying to put everything on the Muslim population,’ she said.”
A lot of people in France would have to admit that Bush was right about some Muslims, like the ones burning down Paris neighborhoods. So much for tolerance and inclusion, which only works when both sides want such.
“Many were upset that military recruiters are allowed on school campuses.”
Most kids will see a military recruiter in their classroom fewer than four times their entire time in high school, yet some teachers are force-recruiting kids with liberalism everyday, kindergarten through their senior year in college. Military recruiters can’t drop a kid’s grade because they disagree with an unproven liberal concept. Some teachers will; most liberal ones do.
So much for the free expression of ideas….
“Women waved metal coat hangers to protest Bush’s recent U.S. Supreme Court nominees, whom they fear will revoke abortion rights. A group from Shoreline Community College wore orange jumpsuits — a reference to terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — with the words “American Torture Victim” written across their chests in black marker.”
Too bad the Shoreline Community College students aren’t told that the hunger strikes performed by Guantanamo detainees are for liberal American media consumption, and the strikers do so in shifts.
It’s also unfortunate that young teenage girls are so obsessed with abortion at such an early age. I wonder why a teacher hasn’t told these students that even if the Supreme Court reversed Roe vs. Wade tomorrow, abortion wouldn’t all of a sudden be illegal. It would become a state’s issue again and in a state like mine, Massachusetts, abortion would still be available and legal. But why would a teacher want to give their students facts? That would be--teaching!
There was a time when a parent had to hope the school bully didn’t pick on their kid. There’s not much one can do when the new school bullies can flunk a kid who dares fight back.
About the Writer: Bob Parks is a versatile writer, activist, and political campaigner, who currently resides in Boston.
Ellie