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sonnylax
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 Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:24 Post subject: Political Correctness strikes again... in a public school
Major sigh..... Home schooling is looking better and better each day, if I ever have kids.
| Quote: | By Ken Rosato (Monmouth Junction-WABC, October 3, 2004)
You might say it is a symbol of the Great American Divide, a teacher putting up a picture of President Bush in the classroom. Some say it is partisanship while others say it is patriotism
Parents expressing outrage after a teacher is kicked out of her public school for hanging a picture of President Bush next to pictures of other presidents in her classroom.
Shiba Pillai-Diaz, Teacher: "It happened on a small bulletin board near the American flag and also with a poster of the Declaration of Independence."
This is Crossroads South Middle School in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. On Thursday, there was a back-to-school night for parents of students. Veteran English teacher Shiba Pillai-Diaz says she was shocked when three parents confronted her. The three, insisting the teacher either add John Kerry's photo to the montage of presidents or remove the Bush photo. When Pillai-Diaz refused, she says the school's vice-principal threatened her job which is an act that has parents here fuming.
Paula Sjolund, Parent: "She didn't do anything wrong, and I think that it should have stayed up there."
Pillai-Diaz ultimately removed the entire bulletin board and says School Principal Jim Warfel told her she disrupted the school with her "inflammatory politics". She says he then ordered her out of the building. While she says she is a Bush supporter in her personal life, Pillai-Diaz says she keeps politics out of the classroom.
Shiba Pillai-Diaz, Teacher: "There was no political intent, nor was there any political content in that photograph nor on the bulletin board." |
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Cappy
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:27 Post subject:
Guess she won't be able to tach about the election now.
I don't see a problem with the picture.
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HighHeat
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:29 Post subject:
Hey, if the right-wingers can pretend that evolution doesn't exist, maybe the left-wingers can pretend that Bush didn't either. 
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:30 Post subject:
That's pretty ridiculous. He is the president.
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Wicked Flea
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:32 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: | | That's pretty ridiculous. He is the president. |
Yeah for now.... 
I think it's ridiculous also.
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:32 Post subject:
The principal at my boys' school went to a Bush campaign rally! 
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:33 Post subject:
Give it up for society!
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Cappy
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:33 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | The principal at my boys' school went to a Bush campaign rally! |
and aren't you involved with your boys teacher
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camelia bedelia
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 15:36 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: | | That's pretty ridiculous. He is the president. |
Yup. Stupid.
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HighHeat
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 16:01 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: | | That's pretty ridiculous. He is the president. |
All joking aside (as it appears everyone ignored my attempt at humor anyway) ...
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 16:07 Post subject:
OK, I'll admit to not being a fan of Bush. BUT i think the parents needs to have thier heads cracked.
the term GET REAL needs to come back. :eyeroll:
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 17:51 Post subject:
I don't quite understand why the teacher was asked to remove the display. It's one way of teaching civics to her students.
But I dare say it's not a liberal phenom by itself. An employer in Tennessee fired an employee a few weeks ago when she refused to remove a Kerry/Edwards sticker from her personal car.
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 17:54 Post subject:
people are stupid. that's about all i have to add to that.
at least proper dictators didn't hide the fact that they were controlling our lives...
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Cappy
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Posted: 10/04/04 - 18:18 Post subject:
| GaRebelRunner wrote: |
But I dare say it's not a liberal phenom by itself. An employer in Tennessee fired an employee a few weeks ago when she refused to remove a Kerry/Edwards sticker from her personal car. |
I heard about that, and that is wrong too
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Cappy
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