Jewish dad questions homework assignment, gets investigated for being a 'neo-Nazi'

fox news ^ | november 6, 2013 | todd starnes

[lowbridge]

Josh Barry, of Camp Hill, Penn., wants to know why the president of the local teacher’s union thinks he’s a neo-Nazi after he complained about a classroom assignment that he believed to be biased.

“I’m Jewish and my wife is half-black, half-white,” Barry told me in a telephone interview. “I am the furthest thing from a neo-Nazi.”

Last week, his daughter’s eighth grade American History class at East Pennsboro Middle School was asked to analyze a New York Times story about the recent government shutdown.

Barry, who said he is a registered independent, read the story and then read a list of questions his daughter was required to answer and he immediately determined the assignment was “grossly slanted.”

The worksheet included questions like “To what issue do House Republican leaders insist on tying the federal budget?” and “Whom do you hold most responsible for the government shutdown?”

Barry fired off letters complaining about the assignment to his daughter’s teacher as well as the school board. But a few days later, he was shocked to discover that the head of the local teacher’s union was making calls around town – asking if he was a neo-Nazi.

[nascarnation]

I went to the Bondurant school at Ontario California way back in 73. One of their instruction cars was an old 911. It really taught you about influence of throttle on yaw angle.

[Jewbacca]

Yep.

I used to ride dirt bikes in the Negev. Learned the hard way a few times kicking the back tire out and then going for a fly.

[Eleutheria5]

America has gone insane. Dissent, and you are accused of being a neo-Nazi, i.e., a crusher of dissenters. Make aliya, before the Boyscouts are outlawed and replaced with Strength Through Joy.

[familyop]

Thank you for relating that to me. Some of my American ancestors (way back) were Coens (and others), but I’m not Jewish. I’m a friendly in a nation, though—a nation that seems to become even more alien recently.

Ah, yes—the “Volkswagon.” I’ve read a little about it. It’s only a machine now—a pretty cool one in the form of a Porsche. It’s a great car. So many people are so intentionally ignorant and getting inexplicably meaner, it seems.

I work on machines but am restricted to the four-wheel-drive type in vehicles. The climate up here is extreme at over 9,000 feet, just east of some high peaks, and the roads are terrible (on the Rockies).

I don’t have a full beard, but I’m kinda grubby looking and usually do wear some kind of grubby hat of whatever color. Qualifies me as a redneck. Heh. And even I wash hands and all after the occasional visit to rotting civilization.