Children of soldiers being sent to Gulf being hassled by teachers...

[David Floyd]

I treat anything from Fox News as immediately suspect, but this is terrible if it is true.

Why is it terrible to tell kids the truth? Hell, I'm sure their parents are feeding them the same bull**** government lies that their dumbass believe.

[Sikander]

This whole thing is probably overblown. It is well-known that teachers tend to lean to the left, and my experience during the Vietnam war leads me to believe that many of them aren't above a little (or more than a little) indoctrination. But few would stoop to hurting their charges for the sake of winning a political argument with their captive audience. That said, if they have, then to the wolves with them.

[Kropotkin]

Children who actually believe their teachers are gullible fools. Their beliefs are not important in the long run anyhow as they can be reprogrammed at any moment in the future.

[mactbone]

So elemtary school kids should be leading the revolution? Decrying the falseness of their teachers?

Look, when you're learning to read, write and do math I don't think there's much of a chance that you'll say "Hey! That teacher's a dumb ****!" Kids at that age haven't developed mentally or socially to the point where they start questioning things told by authority figures (and no that's not brainwashing).

As to the story, unfortunate if true, but I would hope that was just a blanket statement citing a reason that the war on Iraq would be a bad thing and not a specific "Your parents are murderers!" or some similar rhetoric.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
Children who actually believe their teachers are gullible fools.

My teachers used to try and tell me it was dangerous to lick my fingers and stick them in electrical sockets. Hah! Those bastards think they can indoctrinate me with their evil anti-electrocution propoganda? I'll show them that I'm not gullible!

/me is fried in an explosion of righteous electrical indignation.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Why is it terrible to tell kids the truth?

You strike me as the kind of person that would go to a wake and tell everyone there that the deceased deserved his fate.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Sikander
It is well-known that teachers tend to lean to the left . . .

That's probably true. It's usually the liberals who are compassionate enough to work for teachers' wages in order to assure children are educated.

Conservatives probably take the position that, if children want a diploma badly enough, they should get a job and earn enough money to buy one.

[Kropotkin]

Originally posted by MacTBone
So elemtary school kids should be leading the revolution? Decrying the falseness of their teachers?

The teacher is the pupils natural enemy after all. To believe them is to think that you're actually going for a shower when you jump of the train in a concentration camp.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Kropotkin

The teacher is the pupils natural enemy after all. To believe them is to think that you're actually going for a shower when you jump of the train in a concentration camp.

After the soccer team at my school played a particularly bad match their coach told them to go inside and have a shower. Little did they know that 10 minutes later they would be gassed and burnt for their poor performance. Will we ever learn from history?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

I treat anything from Fox News as immediately suspect

Just like those people that treat anything from CNN as immediatly suspect?

Yes. I really hope you aren't implying that CNN is anti-war. The only difference between CNN and FOX is that fox doesn't even try to be creditable.

[chequita guevara]

Is there a link for this story?

[SlowwHand]

Re: Children of soldiers being sent to Gulf being hassled by teachers...

Originally posted by Lancer
...who are saying that their parents are being sent to an unjust war. -FOX news.

This is occuring across Maine according to the report.

IF true, fire their asses. That's not what they're there for.

[Zkribbler]

Re: Children of soldiers being sent to Gulf being hassled by teachers...

Originally posted by Lancer
...who are saying that their parents are being sent to an unjust war. -FOX news.

This is occuring across Maine according to the report.

When you think about it, all across America, there will be some teachers taking an anti-war stance and others taking a pro-war stance, and they'll be talking about it with their classes.

All this Fox "News" stories does is to focus on a few of those incidents and to try an spin them into a story aboutt heartless teachers harassing the students of service people.

[Ming]

Any teacher that harasses a student for what their parent are doing should be fired and never be allowed to work again. And then the parents should sue the teachers for every penny they have.

While I'm sure this isn't wide spread, and that Fox is just trying to over blow some isolated circumstances... any teacher that did this should be toast.

Teachers preaching their "political views" is one thing. Being cruel to a student for something beyond their control is criminal and the teachers should be made to pay for this assult on their students.

[uh Clem]

I can't find any mention of this story at Fox's website. Perhaps they're backing off, which would be no surprise when one looks at the apparent source.

It seems that this originates with a story in today's Washington Times, written by Robert Stacy McCain.

Children of Maine Guard unit taunted by teachers

McCain is an "assistant national editor" IIRC with the WT. I won't bother you with the details, but do a Google search for some of his funny writings and associations.

One thing worth mentioning, though, is the cheap shot McCain takes at the National Education Association (next-to-last graf), which refers to an earlier act of creative writing from the Moonie Times. See The big NEA-Sept. 11 lie for a dose of reality.

There's a story here, all right, but it isn't the one McCain wrote.