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Hmmm…this is not sounding like any of the classroom conversations we had back in my day.
“As a teacher, I’m not supposed to allow you to disrespect the President.”
This is just one example of a troubling trend: We’ve got a lot of these people running around, offering this argument that someone won an election in 2008 and this somehow means we aren’t allowed to say certain things or think certain things.
They don’t seem to have thought this out very well at all, and their definition of “disrespect” seems to be expanding to include anything not flattering. You know…somehow, I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work.
I’m also rather put off by how these classroom conversations are going nowadays. Teacher wants to make a big show out of things she cannot and will not allow to be said in her classroom — I’m hearing a lot of other things over which such an issue could be made in this recording, that don’t even seem to be registering as blips on the ol’ radar. I’d have gotten detention and my folks would have heard about it, if I called someone a “son-of-a-bitch.” Looks like those rules have fallen by the wayside.
But you can’t talk your smack about Barry O.
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That’s not a classroom, that’s a zoo.
With an affirmative action hire to boot.
Do you think there might be a link between the two?
- pdwalker | 05/20/2012 @ 11:02First teacher that tried that shit on one of my children would find my hand upside his/her head. Repeatedly.
People ask why I volunteer so often and my kids’ school and I reply that (a) I love spending time with my children and (b) I get to keep an eye on what’s happening.
- Physics Geek | 05/20/2012 @ 11:51“As a teacher, I’m not supposed to allow you to disrespect the President.”
A hundred…. no, a million… no, an infinity kerbillion zillion gajillion dollars says this very same woman spent the entire period 2000-2008 chanting “dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
Any takers?
God these people are shameless.
- Severian | 05/20/2012 @ 13:27The low IQ is painfully obvious in this case. The higher IQ propagandist do more damage by far. Either way, she in not an anomoly but rather a feature of public school miseducation now.
For those who are not close enough to the ground to know, “disrespect” is the great black antenna inequality meter. It never rests.
- xlibrl | 05/22/2012 @ 09:37A hundred…. no, a million… no, an infinity kerbillion zillion gajillion dollars says this very same woman spent the entire period 2000-2008 chanting “dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
I had pretty much the same thought as I was reading the article…then I scrolled down and saw you’d already posted this in the comment thread.
Funny how once their guy is in power, suddenly war is OK, dissent isn’t cool anymore, gas prices aren’t the president’s fault anymore, respect for the Office of the President is “in” again (just as it was from 1992 – 2000), and as always, it’s the Republicans who are trying “to tear the country apart with disharmony and discord.” (Remember that stupid crap?)
As an aside, I remember much of the kook-fringe Left was calling for Bush’s impeachment over “lies” told during the run-up to the Iraq War…and I was left asking, “Hey, guys? Whatever happened to ‘doesn’t rise to the level of impeachable offenses’ and ‘you’re trying to undo the result of two presidential elections’? Funny how all those ironclad principles of yours go right out the window when power shifts from one side to the other, isn’t it?”
- cylarz | 05/23/2012 @ 03:00