Sorry, kids.
I just haven't had anything to say of late.
Not that there hasn't been anything going on, there has. Nothing important. Not worth talking (blogging?) about.
But today, I was listening to Philips. At one point he was talking about the teacher who was suspended (temporarily, I'm sure) for statements he made during class. Anti-Bush, Anti-America, Anti-Just-About-Everything.
I believe in Free Speech. Really I do. But this isn't that.
I don't think anyone is arguing that he "isn't allowed to say that" to someone. I just don't think it belongs in a High School GEOGRAPHY class. I hear him pull down and point to a map once (you never forget that sound, even 20 years later). But once, in this entire rant (again, in a GEOGRAPHY class) isn't enough.
Send him back to the classroom. Just make sure he follows what is in the textbook.
Not that there hasn't been anything going on, there has. Nothing important. Not worth talking (blogging?) about.
But today, I was listening to Philips. At one point he was talking about the teacher who was suspended (temporarily, I'm sure) for statements he made during class. Anti-Bush, Anti-America, Anti-Just-About-Everything.
I believe in Free Speech. Really I do. But this isn't that.
I don't think anyone is arguing that he "isn't allowed to say that" to someone. I just don't think it belongs in a High School GEOGRAPHY class. I hear him pull down and point to a map once (you never forget that sound, even 20 years later). But once, in this entire rant (again, in a GEOGRAPHY class) isn't enough.
Send him back to the classroom. Just make sure he follows what is in the textbook.
posted by Mike at 3/02/2006 10:18:00 PM
6 Comments:
I agree... not in a geography class. To me, it's kinda like those oh, so important Hollywood types. I don't give a f**k what they think about Bush, The War On The Terrifying Terrorists Of Terror, or anything political, for that matter. I just want them to shut the f**k up and sing, act, or whatever it is they do.
I agree with you, too. Even if I agree with what he was saying, it didn't belong in a geography class.
You are spot on Mikell - you don't yell FIRE in a theatre and you don't air your personal views in a Geography class - especially when I bet 3/4 of the kids in that class can't identify all 50 states...
Ah... Spider. I had a conversation the other day with a youngun. He swore there were 52 states, and Hawaii was NOT one of them.
After 5 minutes, I gave up trying to convice him that he was wrong.
Must have attended one of our FINE Orange County public schools... let me guess, Oak Ridge, Jones or Colonial...
Actually, no. He moved here from New Jersey last year. He has two kids of his own.
It's so sad.
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