You've got to confront these types. They'll make their own laws if you let them.
"It’s the same old song, out in California – a Christian child being discouraged from participating in a school talent show because the lyrics he wants to share celebrate Jesus Christ.
The show was held at Superior Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, and scheduled in the evening, outside school hours. No students were required to attend, and no restrictions were placed on the content of whatever songs those participating might elect to perform.
Several days after the January auditions, though, Superior Street Principal Jerilyn Schubert notified the 5th-grader’s mother that her son would not be allowed perform to the song, “We Shine” because of its religious message – a message the principal said she considered to be “offensive” and a violation of the “separation of church and state.”
The boy’s mother pointed out that audiences would understand that the song was her child’s choice, not the school’s … adding that he had personally selected the song and had been practicing it for months. She reminded the principal that no restrictions had been placed on musical content.
The principal, in turn, explained that other students who had selected songs with profane and vulgar lyrics had been told to select different material … the implication being that lyrics celebrating God were somehow equivalent to profanity and vulgarity. Finally, the true problem emerged: “Couldn’t he pick a song that doesn’t say ‘Jesus’ so many times?” the principal asked.
Of course he could – but he shouldn’t have to do so. Which was exactly the point made in a lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District on January 28 by the Alliance Defense Fund, along with allied attorney Daniel R. Watkins, and reaffirmed in a request for a temporary restraining order filed on February 2.
After being served with the TRO, district officials suddenly changed their tune, announcing that the student would be allowed to perform to “We Shine” at the February 4 talent show after all.
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...its religious message – a message the principal said she considered to be “offensive”...
And there we see the true colors shining through. It's not about equality or tolerance or justice. It's about the anti-Christian agenda.
I wonder what the principal would have said if a student selected a song in Arabic about Allah.
Some teachers and principles are jerks. Don't lump them together with all of the outstanding educators that we have. It is always easy to pick out a few bad apples from a group.
It is too bad that teachers are unionized. I think that it holds them back salarywise. These days, the best cannot rise to the top. Crappy teachers remain, bringing down salaries for all.
Stucco, i understand your point, but if "all of the outstanding educators we have" comment were even close to being true, we wouldn't be near the bottom of the international ratings for education. Fact is, we have FAR too many incompetent teachers who are far more interested in spewing leftist indoctrination than they are in educating, and have no business even being in a classroom, especially since many of them can barely speak English. But they're all protected by what is the #1 reason we are in such bad shape educationally. The leftist teachers unions.
Teachers have to cater to the lowest common denominator in terms of students. All other students get screwed. If the teachers were able to teach instead of dealing with disruptive students, things would be much better. It is difficult to teach with both hands tied behind your back. You can thank both the unions and the administration for that. There are a hell of a lot more good teachers than bad. A lot more. Don't focus on the bad ones as the norm.
Looking at the national results of our public education system, i'd say bad teachers were more the rule than the exception.
Teachers have to cater to the lowest common denominator because Political Correctness dictates it. It dictates that competition and comparison among peers is wrong. It dictates that losing or failing are too damaging to one's self-esteem, so everyone must be a winner.
While in school, I excelled to the top of my class in some areas and fell hopelessly near the bottom in others. Both learning experiences that built character and social growth. Thank God I grew up in a generation where Political Correctness had not yet taken hold.
OK, everybody, air hug....
"Political correctness is a greater threat to our freedom, security, and liberty than is terrorism..."
"Political correctness is a greater threat to our freedom, security, and liberty than is terrorism..."
Sticks and stones (and suicide bombers) will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Which is the greater threat? You will sing a different tune when a terrorist blows your f***ing legs off.
More from our public "education" system;
MANSFIELD, TX. (CBS) – Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a "required" language. The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a "federally funded grant". (ie. your tax money)
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant was awarded to Mansfield ISD last summer by the U.S. Department of Education.
As part of the five-year $1.3 Million grant, Arabic classes would be mandatory at Cross Timbers Intermediate School and Kenneth Davis Elementary School. The program would also be optional for students at T. A. Howard Middle School and Summit High School.
Parents at Cross Timbers say they were caught off-guard by the program, and were surprised the district only told them about it in a meeting Monday night between parents and Mansfield ISD Superintendent Bob Morrison.
The DOE has identified Arabic as a ‘language of the future.’ But parent Joseph Balson was frustrated by the past. “Why are we just now finding out about it?” asked Balson. “It’s them (Mansfield ISD) applying for the grant, getting it approved and them now saying they’ll go back and change it only when they were caught trying to implement this plan without parents knowing about it.”
Just how many tax dollars went to the legal defense of this school official's stupid decision to restrict the students free speech? The "Separation of Church and State" as it is now enforced did not exist from the time of the founders for 150 years. For most of that time, the King James Bible was used as a reading text book in almost all public schools. Appearently, everyone back then knew what it meant.
I think it's a good idea to teach Arabic to kids in the West, so they know what they are dealing with and can understand what is being said by arabic speakers (and what the Koran is actually saying). Just as it wasn't unpatriotic to learn German just before and during WWII (and of course that was useful during the invasion and occupation of nazi-germany).
When I was a kind in grade school (1970’s) at Christmas time the teacher would let us make Christmas decorations and drawings and she would even (gasp!) hang them up for everyone to see.
Kids who didn’t celebrate Christmas drew other things, their choice, and now one cared! Boy I am sooooo glad we have evolved from those oppressive times!
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