Then what do you think school is for? To have fun? To knock up a girl when you go to the prom?

School, at least in theory, is to help young men and women prepare them for the next step whether it be college or work. You can only get so much from books, so much from You Tube, so much from the news, etc. This type of event, which was more frequent when I was growing up, is part of the education process. The only thing I see is someone who wants the school to act more like a surrogate parent than to act like a place for learning not being afraid to show kids both sides, or even one side of an issue.

I have a feeling that is what the school exactly did. Why else would parents call the school to stage a protest or maybe yank the kids out of school because of one event.

From the article, only about 150 kids, probably in a Civics class or history class, would be attending compare to how many kids are in enrolled? More than likely, 90# of the student body would not be attending the class. But given that they were only going to talk about military service in general, as part of civic responsibility and according to the article, the group is at least meeting your criteria. However, I think this has more to do with your political views than it does about education in general.

So, some say the group is one one side and some say the NEA is on another side. It looks like having the group speak allows for the impressionable youth getting exposed to both sides.

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Oh really? What is the purpose of school? When you are in school, whether elementary, middle school, high school, or college, you are there to learn first. Whether you have fun or no while learning is a different issue altogether.

The expectations for seniors or even juniors would be to complete a two page paper about a topic that they can talk about. Giving them a choice on what to talk about within the constraints of Civics should be easy for a junior or senior in high school. Butgiving an excuse not to be in school, and that is what you and Americano have suggested, really shows what your educational priorities are.

I'll admit that I have some anger issues but any reasonable person would have them after what we have witnessed in this war.

I think it has something to do with the stupidity of the lefts positions and their use of US deaths like a constant billboard tally to turn Americans against a war.

When you get down to it no war is justifiable. Nobody has the right to kill anyone, but we have to decide if we should allow ourselves to live in fear, which we aren't anymore, or do something about it. So we did something about it and things didn't go exactly as planned. Name a war that went exactly to the original plan. That is why 4000 deaths over a 5 year span doesn't mean what the MSM and Liberals say it does, and I would contend that a primary reason it has gone on this long is our enemies know that their only chance is to keep the violence going and eventually the Democrats will do their work for them. Our enemies use them and curse them for their weakness at the same time.

Compare it to a single operation like Iwo Jima where we lost over 6000 in less then a month, then 4000 in 5 years pales in comparison. If you compare the two with objectivity the Iraq War represents an amazing improvement. It wouldn't be such a terrible thing in the eyes of Americans if they didn't get these constant reminders from a MSM with an agenda. Imagine if the same had been done during WII. How much support would the war have in 1944 a year before the end of the war if our MSM had been allowed to do the same thing.

Maybe if everyone would open their eyes they would realize that the reason this is even the issue it is today is because we have politicians in Washington willing to take advantage of this situation to assure their party's hold on power. They couldn't do it with their policies or their problem solving abilities because anyone who has been paying attention would realize that the Democrats in Washington are total disaster and we keep having to find out every 10 years or so that they still haven't changed their ways. Democrats seem to have a policy of "How can we fool them today" rather then be honest and compitent leaders. So they constantly spout inflamitory statements which radicals use to support their crazy ideas and now we hear Vets aren't allowed to have get togethers unless it's a protest against the war. It seems the guys that should be protesting the war the most this time aren't.

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"Figure of speech" you say? Nice try to spin to diminish your attempt to denigrate those that you don't know and paint them as something they clearly are not. But then that's business as usual coming from your side of the aisle. Don't like the message? Attack the messenger.

BTW, soccer isn't real big here either, try "hockey parents" instead. "Yuppie?" Do you mean that trying to have a piece of the American Dream is now a bad thing? And of course, what you failed miserably to address, is that the people you were insulting, are nothing like your tired generalization insinuated.

So go right ahead and blather on about that which you clearly don't have any real world knowledge of. Just do it in your own area, you aren't welcome here. Send your own family members off to the glorious, romantic war to kill and die, instead of trying to use ours to do your dirty work.

No, my point was that using school time for students to listen to military veterans tout their 'successful' experiences in Afghanistan/Iraq, recruitment in essence, is not what I consider education. The school might as well dismiss the students rather than having them subjected to non-educational matter in that form.

I am very pro-military.I spent 25 years in the U.S.Navy, I am niether Rep. or Dem. I'm registered Indep. and have no political views on this issue. The only issue I have and what I'm saying is that parents have the responsibility/right to raise they kids as they see fit and should not be considered anything other then parents trying to raise their kids as they see fit. I have a feeling that the title of this thread was chosen with the desire to just spread some elses "Political Views". Can you show me where the parents that called the school were/are in fact "anti-american left"?. Maybe some of them are Dems. and maybe some of them are Reps.

If you are not questioning the principal then what's all the fuss about?
The bottom line is that the principal made a decision, which is his job, about a scheduled event that he felt was changing in character from an educational event to a political event.
It's his school, and it's his decision.
So why is it that the "Anti-American Left" is the target?

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FDR's second Inaugural Address

Both parties will do anything to get/stay in power. If you really take a good hard look you will see that both parties are trying to lead the country in the same direction, just one is trying to do it faster then the other.

This is what you get from govt schools. Politically correct BS. You would think it would be a good thing for students to get to see history from a real source instead of just a text book.

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This isn't about that.
This is a principal making a decision that what was planned as an educational event was turning into a political event.
It's his school to run, he sets the agenda, and he has decided that this event was not a good fit for the curriculum.
The decision was based on the educational merits of the event, not on politics.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

hummm..maybe a wild analogy here but lets say the peace corps wanted to come in and do a gig?

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So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

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I don't see a problem with that, as long as they followed the guide lines set down by the State and Local school boards and the rights of those that do not want to be involved are respected. As i have stated before IMO the best way to deal with things like this is to schedual them after normal school times in the gym or auditorium. Then attendance or non attendance is not a problem.

Would there be political demonstrations outside the building?

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

what does that have to do with it?

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


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