Posted on 03/10/2006 1:36:37 PM PST by Starter
This just in: Jay Bennish has been reinstated as a teacher at Overland High School.
Just heard on KOA. Disgusting.
Words fail me.
Outrageous.....but not suprising. I'm sure 95% of the faculty hold similar leftist views.
"He has great potential as a teacher." Said during the news conf.
Too bad. Maybe it's time for some parents to pull their children out of school until the school officials wise up.
I expect he will get a public apology as well . . . from the school system and from the offending student.
And now more details: Bennish will be resuming his teaching duties at Overland High School on Monday. He has been warned to follow the district's guidelines on teaching both sides of a controversial issue.
Pretty much as predicted by many in the Denver area.
And here I was just comparing him to Mr. Van Dreissen.
Could you imagine what will happen now to the whistle blowing student?
And nebbish.
I say issue every kid a recorder!!!! ..A guy this messed up will slip up again!!!
hey here's a novel idea..why doesn't the idiot just stick to GEOGRAPHY instead of politics??
Unfortunately those are good union jobs, so it's next to impossible to immediately fire a teacher, unless they're actually seen having sex with a student on their desk during the school day, witnessed by the entire class and 1-2 police officers who happen to be in school for show & tell...
I was aching to be in his class when I heard the tape. I'm 16...it would have been so easy to defeat his pathetic rhetoric.
If we had a serious Right in this country, it would make this man's life miserable. It would force him to resign and leave the town. We are fools if we think the liberals who run our schools (with an occasional assist from phony country-club "Republicans") will do our job for us.
From the Denver Post:
Controversial teacher keeps job
By DenverPost.com
DenverPost.com
A Cherry Creek social studies teacher will not lose his job, after a student went public with a tape recording of controversial comments the teacher had made in class.
Superintendent Monte C. Moses said Jay Bennish will be reinstated to his job at Overland High School, and will be teaching on Monday.
Moses said Bennish doesn't deserve to be praised, nor does he deserve to be fired. Moses said Bennish is a good teacher whose teaching abilities need "refinement.
The announcement came after Bennish's attorney, David Lane, promised to sue the school district if Bennish was fired.
At a meeting Thursday, Bennish told Cherry Creek school leaders that he should have used a different dictator when comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler in a geography class.
Bennish also told district officials that he should have balanced each lecture "contemporaneously" on controversial issues rather than over the course of the term, according to Lane.
Bennish was placed on paid administrative leave last week while officials probed allegations that he was biased after sophomore Sean Allen went public with a recording he made of a Feb. 1 geography lecture.
Bennish had cited "eerie similarities" between Bush's State of the Union address and "things that Adolf Hitler used to say."
Today in Washington, President Bush was asked about the Bennish controversy.
"I think people should be allowed to criticize me all they want. And they do," he said.
Denver Post reporters Jennifer Brown, Allison Sherry and Annette Espinoza contributed to this report.
Link: http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3589992
wow he just got a couple week paid vacation... and a free trip to new york ish
"Could you imagine what will happen now to the whistle blowing student?"
Yup. But when it does, the young man will have his college education paid for by Mr. Bennish and the Overland School District.
Bet on it.
Seriously, he has such absolutely pinheaded, illogical, and ill-informed opinions on the world.
He sounded like a parrot who spent thirty years in a poli-sci lecture hall. A bunch of canned phrases, complete misuse of terms and nothing approaching any coherent logic or point.
"Capitalism kills! Hello! Give us a kiss! America is a terrorist state! Hello! Europeans don't like us! Kyoto! Hello!"
I've heard Sean Allen say he's changing schools.
Bennish doesn't seem to be in the union, for some reason. The local union representative noted that they wouldn't be representing him for that reason. (And they seemed rather happy to not be involved in a firestorm, for once.)
"I was aching to be in his class when I heard the tape. I'm 16...it would have been so easy to defeat his pathetic rhetoric."
Easy to defeat perhaps, but difficult to get a grade higher than a D if you don't tow his line..I learned the hard way back when I was in college and had a WAY left leaning history prof..when I disputed what she was saying, I left that class with a D..(my test scores were in the B range..she brought it down because of a "lack of classroom participation"...
"Moses said Bennish is a good teacher whose teaching abilities need "refinement."
The minced words of an education bureaucrat. No wonder our kids are messed up.
WHAT?!!!!
He also said "a lot of years ago" when referencing how long ago he was taught geography.
Other then transferring schools
I predict a very successful life for this young man
He seemed to me, to be a very bright, confident and principled young man
They made him sit in the corner for three days for being stupid enough to get caught.
Exactly.
Awww. Don't listen to GD ; ) I was aching to be in that class too...
and was in one somewhat similar. Teach called me "Lil' Miss Sunshine", cause he knew what I thought of hisselftheelf. He didn't DARE give me less than what I deserved. And I got an A.
GD's got a point though, it can be very tricky with some teachers, some are just outright vicious.
You'll have plenty of chances in the next few years to bounce your conservative ideals off of a bunch of dolt liberals; there is no shortage of them - unfortunately!
Keep your passion up - we need every "right thinking" teenager we can get for the future battles for the soul of this great country.
Ugh. And now David Lane is spinning things. Smuck.
Bennish: "I'm excited to be back in the classroom." He also babbled something about "social justice", but then went back on script and simply said he's excited to be in classroom.
I guess Bennish doesn't believe Bush was elected, still suffering from that weird democrat syndrome I forgot what they call it.
It is human geography, much more than just mountains and hills, but demographics etc.
But, you are right he should keep his politics out of the class.
...Bennish also told district officials that he should have balanced each lecture "contemporaneously" on controversial issues rather than over the course of the term, according to Lane.I cannot WAIT to hear the tapes of Mr. Bennish's pro-America, pro-Bush, pro-free enterprise lectures. :o)
I would love it if as many students as possible would enter his class and place their tape recorders on top of their desks.
As a Coloradan and resident of Arapahoe county, I figured Bennish would get a hand slap and be reinstated. But what bothers me more is that he spoke out against this student in a public forum. Doesn't that violate confidentiality rules?
It seems this would warrant more than a hand slap...
Hey, gal! You're using language I didn't hear back in the barracks a lifetime ago. Shouldn't you have put this in "Chat"?
He should also get his arguments right. If he's presenting Al Queda's views, he should at least be familiar with them - instead he presented leftist Academias views and misrepresented them as Al Quedas.
I think it's called Democrat dementia.....
ROFL!!! Once again, I've strayed.
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