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Student records teacher's rant

Mar. 2, 2006 at 10:00 AM

Homeschooling

Just what are some teachers saying to their students? Enterprising student, Sean Allen, is causing quite a stir by recording his teacher's rant against Bush, capitalism, and foreign policy. and then giving it to a local radio station.
In the 20-minute recording, made on an MP3 player, teacher Jay Bennish described capitalism as a system "at odds with human rights." He also said there were "eerie similarities" between what Bush said during his Jan. 28 State of the Union address and "things that Adolf Hitler used to say." The United States was "probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth," Bennish also said on the tape.
The rant took place in the student's high school geography class. It's no wonder we don't know much about geography. The teacher has been placed on leave. Students from the 2000 student high school have walked out of the school today in support of the teacher.

Listen to the recording here. My children found it very humorous and you'll be glad you homeschool. (It is 20 minutes long.)
 
Michelle Malkin has the transcript.   I wonder how long it will take before the schools ban MP3 players in the classroom?
 
Stop the ACLU informed me that Jay Bennish has hired an attorney.  Rumor has it he has hired is David Lane.  The same lawyer for Ward Churchill.    
 
Slapstick Politics has lots of links on this as well.

None of this would even be an issue of we had true freedom of choice in education. (See next post.)

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posted by gottsegnet on Mar. 2, 2006 at 10:49 AM

I had a few instructors like that...but they were at the university. They probably would have gotten bonuses...

It still boggles my mind...the fact that people can say these things against our government is proof that they are not valid points. Try telling Kim II Sung that. That's how people and significant loved ones disappear in many countries around the world.

But I guess they are on the ideological higher ground, so it is ok.

posted by Brandon Bowers on Mar. 2, 2006 at 11:56 AM

I am ashamed that people will turn against the President of the United States. The reason does not matter. In this case, I think it has to do with the War in Iraq. Everytime I watch the news, I see that people are talking against the war in Iraq. War is needed sometimes. I watched a show on television about Sadam and Hitler. How much was Sadam acting like Hitler was very scarry. After seeing this, I knew then that we the USA and our allies needed to be there.

These people that are talking bad about the war and President Bush, is saying he should get our of Iraq because of politics. What does politics have to do with it. Are military is in harms way. They should finish what they came into Iraq in the first place, no matter how ugly it gets. If we leave any time soon, the tyranny will take over. Sadam will get back in power. If that happens, all the soldiers that have died will have died in vain.

The reason for this instructor in saying what he did is based on anti-athority. To me the first sign of aniti-athority is when a male has long hair. It is very ugly for a male to have long hair, so I do not understand why they have it. When women have long hair it looks ever so divine. No matter what kind of hair this instructor has, he should not have said this in class. With a great gift of teaching, greater responsibilities required. There are things that teachers have to take into consideration before they communicate what they are teaching.

Everyone is different and have different values in their lives. The teacher is not teaching just one student, but a number of them. Each one is different. There are different ages, male and females, different upbringings, etc. An instructor can teach the same thing without upsetting the lives of the students that are being taught. Because this instructor did not put this in consideration, he should be removed from the school. Every action has an equal opposite reaction.


Sky high, seek peace,
Brandon Bowers

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