Posted on 11/01/2004 3:26:40 PM PST by jseth
I am a high school freshman, and today's announcements made me laugh. Since the elections are tomorrow, they talked about President Bush and Sen. Kerry. They said,"In tomorrow's election you can vote for a rock or a pancake. The rock is President Bush, you know where he stands and he is solid. The pancake is Sen. Kerry, he is flat and spreads out easily and often flip-flops to prevent from getting burned."
I widh this was played in school.We have a bunch of Liberial Freaks teaching our kids.
Great! I hope it was a large public school full of NEA educrat types.
That's "waffle," not "pancake."
I hope at least some of your fellow classmates laughed along with you.
A High School in this country?
As much as I agree with the statement, it has noplace being broadcast over a school PA.
It was funny tho :)
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments, but it is inappropriate to announce such over a school loudspeaker. We get really irked when the other side pulls this stuff, and rightly so.
Hello to a fellow freshman. Not many of us on this site. Where are you?
Your FR home page says you are an 11 year Navy vet.
I think that's tre. As funny as it is, as some of you have laready said, if they did a reversal of that message at my school, I would be going to the principal to complain.
I am under my Dads name.
Don't the students have a right to voice their opinions? If this was from the administration I could see the problem. Often students/student government/journalism classes do the announcements.
"Your FR home page says you are an 11 year Navy vet."
Maybe he is a child prodigy? It was probably his kid using his login.
Whoa, what? Since October 21, 2001. Since the age of 11? That or a joke. Hmph.
gotcha
Here's an uplifting anecdote - my grandkids parochial school in suburban Philly (Kerry country) held a mock election - there were about 400 kids voting. Overwhelmingly, by more than 80%, the kids voted for Bush. Since many kids are voting what they hear at home, it means the Catholics who care enough about their faith to pay tuition are voting Bush!
Who's arguing that students have no right to express their opinions? But loudspeaker announcements carry the weight of school authority. That's why I don't want the principal here trying to influence the kids to vote Democrat.
And journalism classes ahould be teaching kids that journalism and op/ed are two different things.
Make sure he votes. Oh, and make sure all the republican teacher's vote tommorrow. And remind the Democrat teachers to vote Wednesday.
No, it is a public school in Virginia Beach, and it was the President of the student government.
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