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Thanks so much for your input!

I am going to format your comments so they are easier to read.

From spitfire525:

I am a member of this Conservative Club and have witnessed first hand the hate in this school. It is not so much the club causing the hate, it is the teachers.

Mark Alton (A biology teacher ) has told students to take a stand against the conservative wing-nuts. Last time I checked politics, or encouraging students to rise against Conservative issues is not biology.

Teachers have taken it upon themselves to teach only one side of the issue, and they pound it into our heads that this is right, and thats wrong. I have heard teachers spend a whole day saying what our country has done wrong, and why we should be ashamed of our country.

He really made me feel bad to be an American, but after I thought about it, I am damn proud to be here.

Ever read By the Lake of Sleeping Children, really helps you see how bad things could be. We have had racism, civil war, and bad presidential decisions, but we are still the best country on this earth.

Organizations such as the ACLU and the NAACP are tearing us apart, they make it an 'us-them' thing. Where was the ACLU when the club president, Tim Buehler, was threatened?

l tell you, they had their back turned because he is a white heterosexual male conservative. They select whom ever they want to help, and it will certainly never be us. We have never instigated, nor harbor hate.

Kids and it seems adults alike can not distinguish the difference between racism and conservative.

The Catamount (the school newspaper) did a article that said they think illegal aliens should have drivers licenses, an obvious liberal viewpoint, and the school allows it. But when we published an article saying no they should not, it was 'racist'.

We expose another side of the issue and it is racist. You may have also heard that our paper had the line 'the liberals accept and Jamal, Muhammad, and Jose into our country' but had someone else said the Conservatives are a bunch of Bob, John, and Joe's, that is still stereotyping but everyones OK with it. If you isolate a line or two out of the newsletter you do not know what we are, our first paragraph explains it all.

Most of us are not conservative and I realize most will not know what we are until late college, but one thing is for certain, if we are not taught two sides of the issue, we will only be what we are taught.

The bias has to stop and we have to be taught critical thinking. We must see there is no White, Black, Asian, or Hispanic, we are only American.

I'm not saying do not take pride in our ancestry, but to not look at each others skin color, accent, or family, but to see him as an American. This is not an Us vs Them thing like the ACLU has so bluntly put it, but it is an American thing.

Thanks a lot spitfire.

I will comment on this tomorrow (oops it is tomorrow...) and hopefully we can get together before the Feb thing and talk things out. Your comments are grate!