Teachers Hold Up Anti-War Signs During Assembly Honoring Military

RealClearPolitics ^ | June 14, 2010 | RealClearPolitics

[i88schwartz]

At an assembly honoring students who enlisted in the armed forces, teachers held up anti-war signs.

[cranked]

And to think that Jack Squat Barry and the Dems want to bail this arseholes out again to save their jobs....methinks it is time for me and the family to move out of the US. Grrr. =.=

[Da Coyote]

I’m tired of this. What part of beating the sh*...er sorry, beating the Obama out of her after the assembly would be wrong?

[Farmer Dean]

If Obama really needs some ass to kick,he can start with these idiots.

[cripplecreek]

And they wonder why Americans are growing increasingly angry with them.

[Irenic]

The teacher, Marybeth...she looked a little crazy in the eyes. eeek!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This “teacher” apparently talks about her political views all the time. Now she does this. What scum. And of course she dresses it up as a “teaching moment” and teaching the students about “democracy.” These students were way too kind in their responses. They should have said “F-U. Who do you think defends you, you scatter-brained b__ch?” Yet this woman will go on teaching year after year, using class time to bray about her political views instead of teaching.

[rottndog]

Those teachers should be fired....The do not have a first amendment right to share their views during an official school function. Entirely inappropiate, and I would have to question whether they have enough good judgment and temperament to even be in charge of children in the first place.

[nolongerademocrat]

Save our children!
End Public Schools Now!

And somebody get that teacher a psych eval!

[anniegetyourgun]

Idiot teacher is probably the shop steward for the teachers union.

[ClearCase_guy]

There will be a reckoning.

[RWB Patriot]

The fact that, regardless of how distasteful her opinion is, it’s protected speech. By what right does anyone get to decide what she can and can’t say?

Granted, she could’ve picked a better time to do it, but that’s a matter for the school to decide.

[exit82]

End war?

At a senior assembly?

what, no respect for, in her mind. a minority decision to enlist in the military?

This woman is too stupid to be a teacher.

And let’s be hinest—it was not dissent—it was all about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[lonestar]

It would be more accurate to refer to them as “NEA members,” rather than “teachers.”

[skeeter]

No kidding. Teachers unions are probably the single most dangerous threat to the republic.

[exit82]

Post 13 “hinest” is “honest”.

[BuckyKat]

Had to look up the locale - Massachusetts. It’s encouraging that the state was actually having an assembly to honor those students in the first place. The tide is turning.

[Raider Sam]

This teacher wasnt showing them how to dissent. She was showing to be an attention whore and steal someone else’s moment.

[anniegetyourgun]

Imagine some teacher at graduation holding up "stop abortion" sign:

It would be equally inappropriate - and the principal would fire, and escort such a person out of the assembly. But, on this one...he hasn't decided what to do.

[acapesket]

Typically Assachusetts.

[spaced]

“What part of beating the sh*...er sorry, beating the Obama out of her after the assembly would be wrong?”

Not a d****d thing wrong with it, in my opinion. And they can fire her afterward, for good measure.

[gusopol3]

Both I and my children have been in classes where the teachers carriy on about their politics, deriding people who have a different point of view. That’s not about opening a dialogue , and it should not be “protected free speech, “ any more than personal religious expressions are, and you know how those are treated in public school.

[kenth]

Hopefully she’ll get a lesson on consequences.

[Richard Kimball]

Too bad I'm too old to be one of her students. I sent several teachers out of the classroom crying during my HS career.

First thing I'd do is start holding up protest signs during class. Air horn when she tries to talk. Hang a devil tail on her rear end when she's not looking. Coughing fits during lectures. Sending that clown out of the room crying would be a piece of cake.

[RobbyS]

She had no right to do his. Not as an employee of the school.

[ClearCase_guy]

The fact that, regardless of how distasteful her opinion is, it’s protected speech. By what right does anyone get to decide what she can and can’t say?

If one of the students had begun a prayer to Jesus, the school would have cut the student off. Because the government has decided that it can decide what people can and cannot say.

[muawiyah]

See the dark line immediately under each eye? That's typical of a certain class of recreational crystal meth user.

Her inability to focus her thinking (so that she avoids needlessly insulting people who've done her no harm) could be symptomatic.

Her dates should always "be prepared" around this chick anyway. No idea what she might've picked up.

[gusopol3]

The only two Yarmouths I see in the country are Massachusetts and Maine. It’s encouraging the latent patriotism that is evident in the tone of the response to her actions in deep blue areas.

[SandRat]

Fire da BUMS!

[ladyvet]

Marybeth is bat shiite crazy!!! My kids love a good debate with their teachers, they would own her.

[Repeal The 17th]

It was in Yarmouth, Massachussetts
(you coulda just said that without me having to google it up)

[Repeal The 17th]

Marybeth Verani

[SunkenCiv]

• 2 people are in custody after trying to get onto MacDill Air Force Base
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[Venturer]

I went to school in the 50’s and I have to admit my class was pretty rough, but she wouldnt have lasted ten minutes in with my fellow students. We would have rode her out of class on a rail.I must admit that we werent real impressed with teachers who didnt cut the mustard.

[rottndog]

The fact that, regardless of how distasteful her opinion is, it’s protected speech.

No, it's not. She is an employee, and was 'working' during an official school function. In that setting, she has no free speech rights.


By what right does anyone get to decide what she can and can’t say?

Under conditions of her employment, the principal and the school board that employs her has the right to decide what she can and can't say during work hours.

[Cheerio]

And to think that Jack Squat Barry and the Dems want to bail this arseholes out again to save their jobs....methinks it is time for me and the family to move out of the US

Man I would have done that a few years back, but where can a retired person go that needs to continue receiving SS and Medicare, since those are the programs the Feds told me I had to 'invest in' my entire life?????

[VeniVidiVici]

For the the National Socialists, courtesy and respect take a back seat to “me”, “me”, “me”!!

[D1X1E]

If these had been my children I dont think I could have stopped myself from knocking the sign out of her hand. And that would be restraining myself.

[hal ogen]

She is a freak. The students entering the military should have ******************** until she plead for mercy. Just what is wrong with these asshat LIBs? At a minimum someone should have hit her with her sign. I can only hope she gets RIF’d. What an inappropriate loser.

[Kimmers]

If I write what I am thinking, I will certainly get my comment removed by moderator and I may lose my FR card.......

[Doc Savage]

Line’em up and shoot’em!

[xzins]

The soldiers fight to preserve the teachers’ right to hold up their signs.

[RWB Patriot]

If schools allow Christians to pray, does that not mean they have to allow time for Muslims to pray? For Bhuddists? Hindus? For who knows how many different religious beliefs inhabit them?

That is the purpose for seperation of church and state, to avoid discrimination.

[RWB Patriot]

“Under conditions of her employment, the principal and the school board that employs her has the right to decide what she can and can’t say during work hours.”

Then let them make the decision, as they have that authority. You and I don’t, so we have no right to go in with our tempers aflame.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

Thomas Paine

[freespirited]

This idiot is Code Pink material. I’ll be happy to give her a reference if she will resign.

[KungFuBrad]

I have not seen it mentioned here yet. If I missed it I apologize. No one has said anything about what the principal said. he said that what she did was best suited for a classroom. NO!! What she did was best suited NOT IN School. Her political views have no place in the gym or in the classroom. Her job is to teach her subject in a way that causes children to learn and to use critical thinking.

So the problem is deeper then the teacher. The fact the principal thinks it would be ok for her to preach a political position in the classroom shows how ingrained this kind of thinking is. His reply should have been that this kind of protesting in not acceptable anywhere or by any employee at the school.

[BonRad]

Maid in Massachusetts

[RWB Patriot]

Guys, I’m not siding with this woman and I’m not defending her actions as moral. I’m defending the indisputable fact of liberty: that if one man loses his freedom, even over something I might find immoral, it means the loss of freedom for all men because it establishes the standard that liberty is open to interpretation.

[Tanniker Smith]

One time that I was proud of my otherwise liberal colleagues was after the commencement address at our high school graduation was given by an actor, working in television in Manhattan who was known by the principal, who managed to take a few shots at the war and the military in the middle of an incredibly dull and tedious speech. My colleagues were upset because quite a few of the graduates were heading into the services, for some of them, it's their ticket out of the previous lives, for others, it's what their fathers did (or still do).

Time and a place, folks. Time and a place.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Back to Con Law 101 with you. The First Amendment is not absolute.