Principal bans 'anti-military,' 'anti-American' materials

[True_Blue]

A Cookeville (Tenn.) High School administrator said Veterans for Peace and a Quaker group can't come back into his school with materials considered ''anti-American'' and ''anti-military.''

The groups plan to go before the Putnam County school board tomorrow with claims that they're being denied privileges afforded to other organizations, including military recruiters.

The war veterans, some who also belong to the Quaker group, were allowed into the school during a September fair for organizations. They set up a table with books about U.S. wars and offered photocopied fliers and pamphlets from both organizations about the war in Iraq and military careers and alternatives.

Quaker and veteran Hector Black said several students stopped by the table and asked questions, and a couple of teachers even thanked them for coming.

more....
http://tennessean.com/education/archives/05/01/65061319.shtml?Element_ID=65061319

[merwin]

1. Isn't that ILLEGAL?

[seriousstan]

2. Very similar to this thread (I even checked if it was a dupe)...

http://www.mtshastanews.com/articles/2005/02/02/news/07schoolaccess.txt

So I will say what I said there....What job are they offering. As I recall, that was the purpose of job fairs and the like. The military isn't allowed in because they represent a n ideal...they are also a job.


Do you really want opinion groups to have access to our public schools? What about the right to life groups or the KKK? How about those that think gays can be "rehabilitated"? Free access?


I don't. If you are offering a job, fine.

[Old and In the Way]

4. If they're in the biz of taking lives, why not have groups whose

job it is to save them? There are people who work full time on this. And it is quite rewarding, spiritually.

[seriousstan]

7. How much are they paying to save lives?

I need to get groceries and am a little short. Did you read the rest of the post about all the groups that would then have the same argument for access to our young?

[Old and In the Way]

10. Not as much as they pay to take them.

And no, I don't buy your analogy. KKK and racist organizations should not be recruiting in our schools. And neither should the military.
And neither should peace groups.

There, that settles that.

[onebox30]

22. The military saves lives sometimes.

I think I saw it on a commercial or something.

[NC_Nate]

11. A few years back

My hometown (PA) had something like this go down...

The KKK wanted to use the school for a rally... the school board tired to stop them, but failed... So the KKK had the rally at my Jr. High. They clan said they let the girl scouts use the building, why not them

[Charlie Brown]

12. Sadly, I have to agree w/your school

if they let one private group hold a rally, they're obligated to let any group that applies hold one, as long as they're secular.

[Ediacara]

14. But....

The KKK is a terrorist organization and always has been, despite what their highway litter adoption wing would have you believe. Should the ETA or al Qaida also be allowed to hold rallies in schools?

[Charlie Brown]

17. We have free speech here

if ETA or al-Qaida wants to hold a rally emphasizing the non-terror aspects of their organizations, then, legally, they have that right.

Schools and city councils could prohibit them from holding rallies, but, so long as they allow rallies by Christian groups and the military, there's definitely descrimination going on.

[MADem]

13. PROBLEM with your assertion--it was NOT a JOB FAIR

The Association of Christian Athletes weren't hiring, and they were there. It was a fair for ORGANIZATIONS--NOT a JOB fair. At least that's what the article stated.

Apparently, some of the parents objected to UN AMERICAN and ANTI MILITARY quotes in their literature:

"Black said Shank specified some quotes in the literature that he objected to, including one from a 1953 speech by President Eisenhower that said, ''Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed. Those who are cold and are not clothed.''

The school is fucked up, the principal is fucked up, and they are practicing lameass selective enforcement. The principal should be fired...but horsewhipped first, the dumb jerk.

[Old and In the Way]

3. How very sad.

Who made this guy the arbiter of social policy?

[Charlie Brown]

6. In the Principal's defense

it sounds like he's having to deal with some neanderthal parents. I don't at all like the idea of this group's material being prohibited, but sometimes principals are stuck in a hard place.

Sad, though, that the promotion of peace is now considered "offensive."

[Old and In the Way]

9. Well, I hope the point will be made to the enlightened parents.

Maybe they'll get more engaged and nuetralize this threat.

[bling bling]

5. That makes sense.

Peace is bad. Children must be sheltered from it.

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[BlackVelvetElvis]

15. I'm sick of the south bashing. Take it somewhere else.

Those of us who choose to stay and fight this shit are sick of it.

[sleipnir]

24. Fight long and hard.

It's the only way to depose these fools who are trying to usurp power in our system

In my book this Principal would be serving, if found guilty, a 10-20 year sentence for treason against the United States Constitution.

[The Minus World]

16. Who needs the HUAC?

...when we've got a million little pro tem enforcement officers reigning anyone they might consider to be a terrorist-sympathizer, in.

[roguevalley]

18. There is NOTHING dumber than a school principal. NOTHING!

[mediaman007]

27. Many great teachers have moved on to administration...

but somewhere in between they go to "stupid" school. Once they leave the classroom most leave their creativity behind. Soon they discover the "path of least resistance."

(Of course, this does not apply to any principals who are on the DU. They obviously are a cut above.)

[VegasWolf]

19. I wonder what the principal's take is for referring failing students to

to the recruiters?

[DrWeird]

20. Bans foreign exchange students as "unamerican."

there's this crazy nazi college republican newspaper on my campus. Last month (yes, month, it takes a long time to publish a newspaper when you only type with your pointer fingers) the headline read "Some Foreign Students May Be Unamerican."

I thought, "no shit, Adolf." And some American students are probably unchinese too.

[Mend]

21. this is good news.....

this is how the early Viet Nam protests began. The controlling assholes acted the same way back then and kept pushing and pushing and we started to push back HARD.

[daleo]

23. Al Quada turns into Al Quaker

Peace is un-American. "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Quaker Party?"

[ultraist]

25. LMAO!!! Al Quaker...lol

CHECK OUT THE ANTI-AMERICAN QUOTES:

Black said Shank specified some quotes in the literature that he objected to, including one from a 1953 speech by President Eisenhower that said, ''Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed. Those who are cold and are not clothed.''

Another quote from an unknown author said, ''The Army that can defeat terrorism doesn't drive Humvees, or call in airstrikes. ... It undermines military dictatorship and military lobbyists. It subverts sweatshops and special interests.''

County School Director Michael Martin said, ''Parents found the materials to be anti-American, anti-military. That didn't come from us. That came from the parents who saw the materials when their kids brought it home.''

IT's OFFICIAL! PEACE IS ANTI-AMERICAN!

[daleo]

26. They don't come much more un-American than Ike.

I wonder if he would want anything to do with today's Republicans?