I can handle a talk on the war on Iraq. All of my peers can, we talk about sometimes in history. But middle school maybe, when I was in middle school I could handle talking about current events however a lot of my peers couldn't. I think High Schools really do need to talk about the prospects of war.
This is worse than Nam
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Don't get me wrong- if somebody has been doing this, it sucks and they should be punished. I just don't trust the story the way it's written.
They only indicated the one incident that involved any kind of staff, and if they wee young kids it's bad. But i can see teachers talking about current events with teenagers.
Anyway, the reference to "teachers, principles, and guidance counselors" does NOT implicate them in the harrassment. It just said the email includes those names. For all we know, it could be kids messing with each other at certain schools or classrooms. The fact that the story DOESN'T give any other examples, and also that it says that some of the problems were occurring on the playground, leads me to believe this.
Fine, let them look into it, but let's not get all frothy and assume liberals are torturing the kids. Hell, so-called "liberal" kids get harrassed all the time for not being Christian, white, or rich.
Don't get me wrong- if somebody has been doing this, it sucks and they should be punished. I just don't trust the story the way it's written.
They only indicated the one incident that involved any kind of staff, and if they wee young kids it's bad. But i can see teachers talking about current events with teenagers.
Anyway, the reference to "teachers, principles, and guidance counselors" does NOT implicate them in the harrassment. It just said the email includes those names. For all we know, it could be kids messing with each other at certain schools or classrooms. The fact that the story DOESN'T give any other examples, and also that it says that some of the problems were occurring on the playground, leads me to believe this.
Fine, let them look into it, but let's not get all frothy and assume liberals are torturing the kids. Hell, so-called "liberal" kids get harrassed all the time for not being Christian, white, or rich.
Well I work every day to stop the immorality of abortion. I donate every year to the Southern Maryland Pregnancy Center and neither of my two girls have had abortions. That is a major problem with the anti-abortion movement. There are too many self-rightous persons in it that think that they must get rid of it for all people. Meanwhile, their families degrade and their children are the ones that have an abortion. It it time to tell women that they have the choice but that the moral and correct way to make that choice is to choose life. I live by the revised motto of: Pro-family, pro-child, anti-abortion, pro-choice.
I would say find some other excuse to feed your hatred of liberals- this one is going nowhere.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/030228guard.shtml
Gen. Joseph Tinkham II, commissioner of defense and veterans services, said there were no incidents of educators taunting children, as had been reported in some national media outlets.
Education Commissioner J. Duke Albanese said the anecdote recounted to him by the head of the Maine National Guard involved a teaching assistant who had been instructed to assume an anti-war position during a class debate. It is unclear whether that incident and the one described by Rogers are the same. The Guard did not provide details to the Education Department
In two other cases referred to by Guard officials, an administrator refused to grant an excused absence to a student seeing off a parent being deployed, and a guidance counselor was insensitive to the needs of a child. The complaints also involve incidents of teasing by students
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/030228guard.shtml
Gen. Joseph Tinkham II, commissioner of defense and veterans services, said there were no incidents of educators taunting children, as had been reported in some national media outlets.
Education Commissioner J. Duke Albanese said the anecdote recounted to him by the head of the Maine National Guard involved a teaching assistant who had been instructed to assume an anti-war position during a class debate. It is unclear whether that incident and the one described by Rogers are the same. The Guard did not provide details to the Education Department
In two other cases referred to by Guard officials, an administrator refused to grant an excused absence to a student seeing off a parent being deployed, and a guidance counselor was insensitive to the needs of a child. The complaints also involve incidents of teasing by students
Man, did another bomb go off in here? A very subtle, not-too-loud device, maybe?