Crosscheck wrote:
dontbethatguy wrote:
I don't fault Bush for that girl's idiocy. Nor do I fault Obama for this teacher's idiocy. There are a lot of fanatics out there. Not all of them are the Bible thumping kind. Some just have misplaced/misguided intentions. Others, like the crazy Sunday school lady do not. At any level this is wrong.
When my tax dollars start funding that Sunday school I'll get upset.
Until then, there's no comparison.
The people responsible for this should be fired....better yet, their union should be sued and forced to dissolve.
No there is. Using that logic unless your tax dollars are directly funding that school district where the incident occurred then you shouldn't get upset? If things like this aren't occurring in the school district your tax money goes to then there is no reason to be upset.
The outrageous act here isn't the public funding of tax dollars to that teacher. It's the teacher's abuse of her authority over an highly impressionable audience. Whether it's an isolated case or a systemic thing is purely speculative at this point. In any case it's wrong and something should be done about it.
If you want a public school example I'll provide one. In 3rd grade (I was still in public school at the time) I had a teacher drop a ball bearing 4 times on my hand to demonstrate to me and the class that war was bad, evil, etc. I was asked if it hurt. The obvious answer being yes. We then talked about Ann Frank and how ball bearings similar to the one dropped on my hand were used in WWII by Nazis and the Japanese to kill innocent civilians. The whole point was absurd. War is never a good thing. People get that.
However, to tell stories of how ball bearings like the one dropped on my hand would shatter bones on impact and cause people to die slowly was not 3rd grade level material. Nor was it unbiased. Japanese and Germans were just blanketed as bad. The whole experience still irks me to this day. We weren't praising a President we were just stigmatizing Germans and Japanese as bad people and anyone who supports was as evil.
I went home and complained to my parents. My parents then complained to the school. The teacher wasn't fired nor was he asked to apologize. In fact nothing happened at all. My parents tax dollars directly at work there since it was their money that was going to that school district.
I believe Clinton was President then. I don't think people would point the finger at Clinton for my 3rd grade teacher's antiwar views and lesson plan. Regardless of whether or not the school or teacher is privately or publicly funded these actions are still reprehensible.
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