hang the president?

Rita Bianco, Parent: "Children should know their president and their first lady!"

Parents expressing outrage after a teacher is kicked out of her public school for hanging a picture of President Bush next to pictures of other presidents in her classroom.

Shiba Pillai-Diaz, Teacher: "It happened on a small bulletin board near the American flag and also with a poster of the Declaration of Independence."

This is Crossroads South Middle School in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. On Thursday, there was a back-to-school night for parents of students. Veteran English teacher Shiba Pillai-Diaz says she was shocked when three parents confronted her. The three, insisting the teacher either add John Kerry's photo to the montage of presidents or remove the Bush photo. When Pillai-Diaz refused, she says the school's vice-principal threatened her job which is an act that has parents here fuming.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WAB...olteacher.html

lets see what the anti christian libertys union does about this!

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wtf! He isn't even president! She was just adding a simple picture of Mr.Bushy. No matter "how bad" one thinks he is or has done he has a historical right to be put in line with the others.

Thats just plain ignorent. Whether you like him or not GW Bush is a seated president, while J Kerry is just a want to be right now.

I can remember displays like that when I was in school four or five decades ago. They never included the Want_To_Be's either.

Even as a Kerry supporter, I find this ignorant. As mentioned before, until Mr. Kerry is elected, he has no right to be "hung" with other presidents.

Quite ignorant. The picture does not show it next to other presidents (but the picture is a close up of the picture of Bush), but as long as it was next to the other presidents and didnt say anything like "Bush is best" the teacher did not do anythign wrong in my opinion.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/features..._picture7.html

It does look like it was separated from the other presidents...however, he is the current president of the US, not someone who was at some point in time president. I can make a case for having it set apart from other presidents. It's just stupidity, IMO, for the parents to have made such a stink about something that was, despite the teachers personal political leanings, completely innocent as far as I can tell.

I only found this now, but on the same day of Tedob's article, an official District Statement was released by the Superintendent of the School district. Read it here.

Here are some excerpts:

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- As the issue grew in intensity, the teacher herself chose to remove the stuffed elephant because of student comments. In the ensuing days, parents expressed increasing concern about the teacher's classroom behavior, the misuse of classroom instructional time and the personal bulletin board.

- On Friday morning, October 1, Ms. Pillai-Diaz was directed by the Assistant Principal to remove bulletin board materials because they were being viewed as contributing to an ongoing disruption of the teaching-learning environment. She refused. She then met with the Principal who repeated the directive. At this point, Ms. Pillai-Diaz abruptly left the building, abandoning her post of duty and her classroom responsibilities.

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So not only did she not got fired, she also abandonded her "post of duty" (something she should be fired for imo)... and of course the matter was a little more complicated than what ABC wants you to believe...

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Ms. Pillai-Diaz is a new Language Arts teacher in the South Brunswick Schools. Recently, the school administration began receiving complaints from students and parents that Ms. Pillai-Diaz was using her position, classroom and teaching time to engage in partisan politics. Students reported that she had made statements which denigrated one party over the other. The conversations included Ms. Pillai-Diaz telling some students who offered opinions contrary to her statements, that she was “glad they were not old enough to vote.” Other comments to students, including such statements as, “you should be ashamed to be a Democrat” have been verified through student interviews.

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Quite a different story than the one reported earlier, eh?

And Neg, haven't you learned to sleep when the babies sleep yet?! :p

I had some very liberal and very conservative teachers. They would all present their own point of views occasionally. That was that, today we live in a world full of people who cannot accept ANYTHING beyond their own selfish bias and hatred for the OTHER side of everything.

I would go home tell mom what I heard and we would have discussions on it. AMAZING. :D

Personally, i'd love to well, lets call it "not be nice" to W, but he is a part of history and does belong in a classroom, damn fools

My american history teacher is a very strong democrat. She lets us know why she believes it and allows us to tell her why we don't think the same way as her, and if she has facts to shoot us down with, she does, but if not, she leaves it alone... She's not a propagandist, more like a teacher letting us know what the hell we have to deal with to get to the facts anymore, and where to find the information you can believe.

If she ever got fired for that I would protest...

Here's a local story of incredibly bad judgement:

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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Susan Bennett is a concerned mother who says what her daughter is learning at Paxon High School is unacceptable.

The controversial film, Fahrenheit 911, was recently shown to students in Brittany Bennett’s TV production class. Her mother says it has no business being in class because it is an R-rated film and parents were never given parental permission slips for the viewing.

Paxon's Assistant Principal, Debra Lynch, says teacher Frank Goodin chose the movie based on film structure and not political stance.

"A point he's trying to make is how to take a story line and support it with film making," Lynch said. "He did not think of it the political repercussions."

Parents like Bennett say the film is propaganda, not good learning material. "The film is not proven, it's garbage. Nothing different than a scandal magazine."

School Administrators say they were not aware the film was part of the supplemental curriculum and it does violate the school board manual.

The manuals states, "Teacher needs to obtain parental permission on any viewing materials which bear ratings other than G."

Fahrenheit 911 is no longer part of the curriculum in the production class at Paxon High, unless the teacher is able to get permission from all parents in the class.

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Granted, he was trying to make a point about a particular type of movie-making, but good god, on top of all the other ways he blew it, he just didn't use common sense. Of all the times, and of all the films to choose...sheesh.

Original article here.

WOW...that is just freegin Amazing. Hey at least they know who the president is...unlike some Idiots that were interviewed in the street, who did not know the vice president was. Some even think that Clinton is still the president :D...I was laughing my ass off.

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Originally posted here by Cybr1d
WOW...that is just freegin Amazing. Hey at least they know who the president is...unlike some Idiots that were interviewed in the street, who did not know the vice president was. Some even think that Clinton is still the president :D...I was laughing my ass off.

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that's why the democrats are out there pushing voter registration. the uninformed fall for their bullshit and those that care enough to find out are already registered.

if your in favor of partial birth abortion

beleive saddam was mis-understood

think we're spending far too much on defense

think that going against the direct orders of ones own archbishop still makes one a catholic

think that god has no place in this country

belive marriage should change with the tides of popularity

then vote for curry (munster & tripper 2004)


kerry says he believes many things but we have to remember he also says that he doesn't let his personal beliefs get in the way of what he does. which is why he always votes in favor of any abortion bill that comes up even though he says he's personally opposed to abortion.

when i vote for a person it's because i think that person most represents me. not me today, someone else tomorrow and someone else the day after that.

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Originally posted here by debwalin
Here's a local story of incredibly bad judgement:



Granted, he was trying to make a point about a particular type of movie-making, but good god, on top of all the other ways he blew it, he just didn't use common sense. Of all the times, and of all the films to choose...sheesh.

Original article here.

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My history is planning on letting us watch American History X later on this year... We WILL of course have parental permission slips... But yeah watching movies that are not "appropriate" in history classes isn't new... Off topic: Has anyone here seen American History X? I hear from a few friends that it is VERY good... Definitly not something you would want to believe as it is a story basically from a neo nazi's side but is definitly a good watch...