[Born Conservative]

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[wolfpat]

If I understand correctly, this wasn't even a geography class. It was a class to explore how the kids feel about geography.

[infidel29]

Bennish has hired David Lane as his attorney and takes the position that he should be able to say anything he wants in class. In an interview with the CBS affiliate in Denver, Lane said, “No action should be taken against someone who is exercising their rights under the First Amendment.”

Okay, who's going to be the first to use this defense for teaching Intelligent Design? Wouldn't hold water then would it?

[Jaysun]

Bennish has hired David Lane as his attorney and takes the position that he should be able to say anything he wants in class. In an interview with the CBS affiliate in Denver, Lane said, “No action should be taken against someone who is exercising their rights under the First Amendment.”

The Commie Swami forgot to mention the exceptions to this rule (anything to do with abstinence, God, morality, etc).

[NonValueAdded]

Nice bit about the lawyer's receptionist ... if that is used in court in the closing argument, Bennish is toast.

[wintertime]

Bennish’s First Amendment right prevents our government from prosecuting him when he compares Bush to Hitler.

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What about FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION of the students???? This is a First Amendment right that is trashed by government schools every minute of every school day! Although Bennishs' course may be an elective, the students have no freedom to refuse to associate with all the students who march out of the school to defend Bennish. Students have no freedom to not associate with the idiots who are Bennish's bosses. There is not freedom not to associate with other teacher who are just as Marxist and Anti-American as Bennish.

These children are NOT in these government schools by free choice. They are compelled by government Law. That means if they don't show up, the government WILL and DOES use armed police, court, and foster care action against them and their parents.

Since government schools impose onerous taxes, and are a price-fixed monopoly, private schools are scarce and both parent work meaning privately or home educating a child is impossible.

Solution: Immediately begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education .

By the way,,,,,,Infidel is completely correct. If you want Bennish's rants suppressed then you have a problem with those who don't want either evolution or intelligent design taught either.

Do you get it yet? Government schools are compulsory. Can not be all things to all people. Will establish the poltics, culture, and religion of some when actively undermining the most cherished beliefs of the less powerful

Government schools are the problem NOT especially Bennish, or evolution, or ID, or hundreds of others NON-neutral issues.

Government schools are an abomination. Abolish them. They are unconstitutional!

[Fintan]

Here’s a better idea. Spend the forty minutes in geography class teaching kids about geography. Then set up an after-school debate to watch Coulter clean the teacher’s clock.

 

I'd give a week's pay to be there for that.

[kitkat]

***According to Lane’s logic, when the receptionist of his law firm answers the phone, she should be able to express the opinion that all of the attorneys there are incompetent and then provide the caller with phone numbers of better counsel.***

My first laugh for the day.

[weegee]

How on earth does he know what Al-Qaeda thinks?

Maybe he gets their daily e-blast of talking points.

[Mercat]

I guess I'm afraid to find out how the liberal teachers now define geography. I know that it's more than just where to find Iran on the map. Geo-politics is, I believe, in the category of geography. Any geographers out there?

[A.A. Cunningham]

When it rains it pours. People who have complained about Bennish, parents and former students, are now coming out of the woodwork relating that the principal blew them all off. The district is refusing to provide details about the number of complaints that have been lodged claiming they sannot divulge his personnel file. Not only may Bennish be toast but the principal as well.

[SUSSA]

These parents dump their responsibilities on the government and then whine when some classroom bureaucrat says some things they don’t like. If they had their kids in a capitalist, free market, school instead of a socialist school, this wouldn’t be an issue.

This is like people in socialized housing complaining about the color of the carpet or the location of the housing. Most of the people riding the socialized schooling dole would tell the people in socialized housing; “if you don’t like it get out.” They just don’t want t be told that about their subsidy.

Get rid of socialized schooling and the market will take care of things like this.