Take Bush Out Of The Classroom....Or Else

[frisco-kid]

I heard on the news today that a school teacher [didn't hear what grade] in New Jersey was told by the principal to take down the picture of President Bush, that was on a bulletin board in her classroom beside copies of The Bill Of Rights, etc.! It seems that a handful of parents, that either saw it or heard about it from their kids, deemed it politically driven and that the teacher was trying to push the Republican Party on the kids.

Now, I don't care what grade level is involved here. In my opinion, every school child in America has the right to know what the President Of The United States looks like; I don't care what their parents' political views or loyalties are. This has to be the epitome of stupidity and partisan whining . Do they actually believe that this teacher is going to influence how these kids ultimately vote, when they reach the age to do so, by hanging a picture of the CURRENT president in her classroom? I'll bet you dollars to dirt that if Kerry wins the up-coming election and this teacher has his picture hanging in her classroom, these same parents wouldn't say SHIT. BTW, the teacher refused to take the picture down and left school for the day. Good for her for not giving in to one of the stupidist forms of CENSORSHIP that I've ever heard of .

Maybe Bill or Neil can give us more details on this.

[sn-e3]

Tom During my recent Navy reunion I was asked many times about the election and my standard responce was I don't talk about religion or politics and i never heard another word and I'm sure I saved a few heated arguments.

[1IDVET]

Originally posted by sn-e3 Tom During my recent Navy reunion I was asked many times about the election and my standard responce was I don't talk about religion or politics and i never heard another word and I'm sure I saved a few heated arguments.

That's a great rule to follow at parties too!

Keeps the beatings to a minimum.

[Seascamp]

It is a 4th grade class and there were pictures of other presidents plus other significant docs. The teacher was fired and escorted off school property for insubordination. Evidently this was the culmination of a long, on-going, conflict over political leanings with the school principal but the teacher claims that politics was never discussed in her class, as if 4th graders would give a rats butt anyway. Probably most would just Z out or get to sky piloting at such a discussion. Of course in New Jersey Liberal politics is more of a religion than a religion, so it was a group of parents that saw the pic of W, went ballistic and got into the ?Kill the monster? mode. Has the sniff of a nasty lawsuit ahead but the Teach would probably have to move the hearing to some place like Oklahoma to even get a Judge to hear the case. ACLU, where art thou, hmm?

Too funny, but I went to San Francisco for a business meeting Friday morning and ran smack dab into a very noisy Labor Union demonstration. Most the hotels in the city had locked out Local 2 something, something and they were on the warpath. As well the Kerryites were out hunting down anyone who breathed to get them signed up to vote. They challenged me but I told them I was from Nevada but that didn?t seem to matter at all. Besides, I mentioned the fact that I was a ?Ditto head? and they looked at me like I had a pecker growing out my forehead. Curious, eh, and way too much fun to be legal methinks.
But I managed to get through the meeting at a picketed hotel, escape the signer uppers and get on back to the airport. My ears are still ringing with the loud mantra to drum beats, ?Don?t check in?, ?Check out?. The ?City by the Bay?, ya just got to love the place and all the goings on, going on.


Scamp

[David]

Originally posted by frisco-kid I'll bet you dollars to dirt that if Kerry wins the up-coming election and this teacher has his picture hanging in her classroom.

A friend was able to hack into the DNC network and found startling images that confirm your suspicions Frisco!

This first one is marked to be distributed at schools across America should Kerry win.

[David]

This one was marked to be distributed in all company work areas!

[razar]

Having been a russian linquist for 50 yrs I will interpret the language under the last post."two tears in a bucket,if that don't fill it F*** it".

[Andy]

I thought it was the same all over the country. Remember the 50s and at least early 60s? Didn't everyone have a picture of Washington and Ike, then Kennedy in their classroom? I'd guess some southern friends may not have had a picture of Lincoln hanging over the black board but that's understandable.

In the 80s one of my son's got into a little trouble. A picture of Ron Reagan hung next to the flag. The kid taped over the presidential picture a photo of Reagan dressed as a cowboy.

Did anyone else have a posters with all the American Presidents on it? The current president was a little larger than the others. (Always thought James Buchanan looked gay.)

Stay healthy,
Andy

[DMZ-LT]

Once a year we had what I think we called a Dress Mess. Whole Squadron of officers got together for a formal mess and we started toasting from the President down to the Troop Commander. Dress Blues and spurs - got married in the same and still wear my spurs on the Harley. Drunker than a billy goat by the end of the mess.

[revwardoc]

Andy,

Not only does Buchanan look gay, but he probably was!

http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/2458

Wheatland, Buchanan's house in Lancaster, is open to tourists, but visitors will never learn that he was homosexual or much else about him.

In life, Buchanan was not very far in the closet. For many years in Washington, he lived with William Rufus King, Senator from Alabama. The two men were inseparable; wags referred to them as "the Siamese twins." Andrew Jackson dubbed King "Miss Nancy," and Aaron Brown, a prominent Democrat, writing to Mrs. James K. Polk, referred to him as Buchanan's "better half," "his wife," and "Aunt Fancy . . . rigged out in her best clothes." When in 1844 King was appointed minister to France, he wrote Buchanan, "I am selfish enough to hope you will not be able to procure an associate who will cause you to feel no regret at our separation." On May 13, Buchanan wrote to a Mrs. Roosevelt about his social life:


I am now "solitary and alone," having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.
King and Buchanan's relationship, though interrupted from time to time by their foreign service, ended only with King's death in 1853. While Buchanan was born and raised in Pennsylvania, William Rufus King was a Southern slaveholder. Buchanan's pro-slavery politics may have stemmed in part from their 23-year connection. Buchanan certainly thought highly of King: "He is among the best, purest, and most consistent public men I have ever known, and is also a sound judging and discreet fellow," as well as a "very gay, elegant looking fellow."

Nevertheless, the staff at Wheatland never mentions King. Asked directly "was Buchanan gay?" a staff member replies, "He most definitely was not," and points to a portrait of Ann Coleman on the wall as evidence. Buchanan was in fact engaged to Coleman, the daughter of a wealthy ironmaker, for several weeks in the late summer and autumn of 1819. He showed so little interest in her, however, that rumormongers in Lancaster suggested he was only in love with her fortune.