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I am so very sorry if any child was caused pain because of
their parents' participation in protecting our country.
There is no acceptable excuse for such actions.

My concern is that ALL teachers in Maine were scolded and
ridiculed by our "highly respected national media" .
I work with many teachers and the entire group reacted as
I did...with disbelief and disgust. No teacher should use
their position to "push" their political agendas or
personal vendettas onto their students. No teacher I have
heard discussing this issue has had any good to say of it.
I work with people of varying political persuasions and
with very strong opinions. We have some very interesting
discussions IN the Teacher's Room. Our most recent
discussions were regarding the fact that negative national
attention was drawn to the Maine Teaching Professionals
concerning an issue that was reported without any names or
places. I...See More
Freedom Loving American /blockquote>

"It seems odd to us that we were all clumped into
the class of "perpetrators" without any substantiation"

There you go. trying to claim in never happened. Yup, the
nasty right wing media must have made it all up just to make
poor Maine teachers look bad. PLEASE!

You all could have done somethin...See More
Mar 14, 2003
Stop the Spin /blockquote>

About to Retire,

You orignially posted "I am wondering why Maine teachers are
receiving so much press regarding their mistreatment of
National Guard children."

To your credit, your most recent post seems to imply that you
have now thankfully realized why, in fact, many people find
the behav...See More
Mar 14, 2003
Jackalope /blockquote>

Excellent points. The old saying is "Silence gives consent"
and it certainly applies here. Just as the education
profession was silent when the NEA posted statements on its web
page after 9/11 implying that America was responsible for the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it has been
si...See More
Mar 15, 2003
Savoy /blockquote>

> Jackalope wrote"
> True, impartial, unbiased educators should be outraged. THEY,
> not you or I, should be the ones posting here demanding that
> their colleagues be disciplined and removed from teaching.
>
> If you don't clean up your own house, don't complain when
> people com...See More
May 8, 2003


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