'Hey, kids, need a ride to a protest rally?' (by Larry Elder)

Townhall ^ | November 10, 2005 | Larry Elder

[EveningStar]

World Can't Wait -- an anti-Bush, anti-war group, recently staged nationwide protests. The organization coordinated rallies in Chicago, Seattle, New York, San Francisco -- and Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Unified School District took things a step further. The district helpfully agreed to provide buses -- that's right, buses -- as well as "adult supervision" to the nearly 800 high school students who walked out of 10 high schools...

[EveningStar]

The LAUSD is nuts. This is just the beginning of this article. The best is yet to come. Click on the link and read.

[EveningStar]

ping

[onyx]

I read it, but only because YOU requested.
That silly ditty they sang or chanted... geeeez.

To top it off, the dummies got class credit for attending this "rally." Cripes.

[xcamel]

[EveningStar]

YCMTSU! ;)

[saganite]

But we all know the purpose of schools is not education but indoctrination. If they tested those LA kids on what they're actually taught in the classroom, anti American Socialism, they would score in the top 10% in the nation. I feel sorry for those kids, being tested for something as irrelevant as reading and math skills. /sarcasm/ (for some who don't know it when they see it)

[ErnBatavia]

Brit Hume just did a few seconds on this...the more publicity regarding this stupidity, the better.

[onyx]

That's for sure. It's all too real.
Sickening, actually.

[La Enchiladita]

Lord have mercy. I live here and this is still beyond my lowest expectations!

[Sender]

This is just un-freakin-believable. Please, all humans in LALA land, get out now. Just leave.

[La Enchiladita]

I just read the article and fainted.
Thanks for the expose, Larry.

[La Enchiladita]

all humans in LALA land, get out now.

Where is OUR bus and OUR supervision, huh?

[Kellis91789]

Of course, by law, those are all still unexcused absences. Which means the Stat should be docking the LAUSD for the $40,0000 they get each day for 800 students. Plus the fuel and depreciation on the buses. Plus the wages for the bus drivers.

What do you suppose the odds are that will happen ?

Not to mention the truancy laws every school employee broke who accommodated this.

[onyx]

BUMP!

[Unam Sanctam]

This is outrageous. Shall we declare a day's boycott and demonstration for the pro-life cause? We should get equal treatment.

[Christian4Bush]

Sage from South Central BUMP

[MarkL]

I remember when President Bush's campaign held a rally at Lee's Summit high school, before the election. I live less than 2 miles from the school, and traffic was really snarled something fierce. There were all sorts of complaints after the fact about having a political rally at a school, as well as allowing students to attend the rally (if they wanted) without requiring parental permission (the rally was held on the athletic fields, so it's not like it was a field trip).

The leftists and libs were livid!

Mark

[NJRighty]

That music teacher is a disgrace. That song is a parody, and he is presenting it in a music class not for its musical value, but to impose his angry immature attitude on his class. If someone called him a moron or a queer or something, he would probably try to have the student suspended for intolerance.

[taxesareforever]

Taxpayer money to attend a political rally. Their tax exempt status should be revoked. :)

[Sender]

Wouldn't that be a hoot of a conservative protest...sending buses in from neighboring states to 'evacuate' the thinking from LA.