No other info on this other than a blurb on a local TV station. Anyone have more? The school’s response?
Today’s Morons are the administrators at a school called the Puckett Attendance Center in Puckett, Mississippi. At this school, it’s against the rules to say the word “Obama.” Students can’t talk about their new president-elect anywhere except history class.
I thought at first this might be one of those Internet things, like the Palin kid giving the finger, but it turns out to be genuine Puckett school policy … but not for the reasons you think. No, this isn’t a school run by anti-Obama racists; it’s a school with kids whose parents are anti-Obama racists, and kids whose parents aren’t. It seems that the potential for racial acrimony over Barack Obama is considered a real threat, so the school decided to nip the potential in the bud by just banning the topic. If nobody talks about Obama, nobody fights about Obama. That’s the logic.
Unfortunately, that won’t work, and here are three reasons why:
* Kids are kids and will talk about what they want to talk about
* The rest of the world now thinks Puckett is Klan central
* This hides the issue. What the school should do is worry about more than “attendance” and use this opportunity to help its latest generation learn more about the way the world is going
The rest of the world now thinks Puckett is Klan central
I haven’t seen any polls to justify this.
The other two items are valid.
In fact, my kid’s history class had a series of five questions on some weekend homework recently:
1) Who were the 10 largest contributing industries to each campaign?
2) Who were the 10 largest contributors (individual or company) to each campaign?
3) Who would likely benefit the most with direct access to the president?
etc.
It seems we are beginning to teach our kids how things work. And it’s about time!
We calls it “revising current events” down here. And its a good plan, too! Everyone in town knows if you ignore sumthing, it goes away. Next plan: make it illegal to teach ‘dem black kids to reed. That ways they cant run for Prezadent. Thats cuz, they wont be abel to spell Prezadent!
Fersonally, I see this as a pailure of the Puckett paculty, not the pault of the farents.
This is simply a statement by the school administration showing how the new president elect’s administration will provide change we don’t need.
For 4 disgusting years, every school will build on the new president elects platform of change, eliminating 200 theorems that need change, changing proven scientific conclusions, and changing change again and again for the sake of change, change, change, change, change, change, change, change, repeated so many times you become to believe change is God herself.
Look for more to come, to support this theory, like erasing 200 “to do’s” that Bush put on the blackboard to be replaced with a 2000 corrective behavior punishments, and after the 4 years of boot camp is over, the reason nothing significant really changed, will all be Bush’s fault and that will never change.
4,
Wow, nice asinine rant.
Communication and open discourse are the only cures for ignorance.
They are not allowed to say fire in the auditorium or fuck at recess either, Might lead to dancing!! Will this indoctrination never cease?
Start watching after 15 seconds: http://tinyurl.com/63lo9k
I can totally understand given how some teachers are proselytizing politics in the classroom.
If I was a student or even a teacher at that school I would go around saying things like, “You can’t talk about Obama. Obama is a word you can’t say. If you say Obama then I’ll have to tell someone that you said Obama because we aren’t allowed to say Obama.”
I’m sure that they will just say “The O-word” or “the next president” instead of his name.
#7: That was pretty disturbing. I voted for Obama, but that teacher really didn’t give a balanced breakdown of the issues involved. She talked about the war and that was all well and good, but it certainly isn’t the only issue out there. She definitely crossed that boundary between education and proselytizing. I think our educators need a good grounding in debate / structured argument. She obviously really had no idea why anyone would vote for John McCain. If you consider that almost sixty million people voted for him it goes beyond unbelievable that positive reasons to vote for John McCain do not exist. Given those reasons are out there she did a disservice to her students to not address them.
Of course, it wasn’t nearly as disturbing as 2000 where my daughter came home from her Catholic school and told me I had to vote for George Bush because Al Gore was in favor of killing babies. That went beyond proselytizing to downright offensive.
I was disturbed by her statement that the girl’s daddy would be in the military for 100 years if McCain won. That was just stupid. The most that McCain could control would be eight years and if the war was still going on at that point any candidate who suggests that they would continue the war wouldn’t have a chance of success. I’m not in favor of shipping all our troops out tomorrow, withdrawal needs to be orderly to avoid troop losses, but if we’re still as involved in this civil war eight years from now something is very wrong. I am tired of providing our people as targets for the insurgents mainly so the politicians have something to argue about.
# 9 Alex Wollangk said, “She obviously really had no idea why anyone would vote for John McCain.”
Well, teachers unions (and her guaranteed job no matter her performance) survival & power is tied to the Dem Party.
Asking to the teachers to present a balanced non-biased view would be like asking a crack addict to stop using…
Paddy, sounds to me like you should go into teaching. 😉
#10 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Well, teachers unions (and her guaranteed job
>>no matter her performance) survival & power
>>is tied to the Dem Party.
I think it has less to do with her union, RAMBO, than it does with the fact that she had to go to college to become a teacher. Most educated people (with the exception of multi-millionaires and billionaires who stand to gain even further from a Repub administration) support the Democratic party in general, and Obama in particular.
McCain’s core constituency was the cross-eyed inbred mutants shown at the rallies, crying “kill him” and saying Obama is an aye-rab.
What about current events?
Are they going to ban newspapers with the “O” word in them too?
These bigots have no business teaching children.
Assuming the goal is to get kids to talk about Obama more, this is a brilliant plan.
# 11 QB said, “Paddy, sounds to me like you should go into teaching. ;-)”
I would never enter any career that isn’t pay by performance. Maybe we should institute that into our system in the US. Hell, we already pay more per capita than any nation for a Union run disaster. Couldn’t be worse.
#15 My brother in law teaches high school, is non-union, and negotiates his salary. There are lots of options.
# 16 QB said, “#15 My brother in law teaches high school, is non-union, and negotiates his salary.”
Where?
Here in Alberta. He teaches in a charter school.
#7, guyver,
Just like most of your crap, BULLSHIT. This is not a candid view of a classroom. Believe it all you want but this is not a regular classroom discussion.
It never ceases to amaze me that idiots like to post links to YouTube videos as if they are fact filled posts. They aren’t. They are, for the most part, propaganda.
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These administrators will have a difficult time explaining why their students can’t mention the President’s name in a few months.
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Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath,
You haven’t disappointed with your pedestrian crap.
#18 While I like Canada, we’re talking about US school system here. We already know Canada does a better job on basic education.
Now, if you want to take over the US Union controlled public school system, I’ll support it. 😉
Paddy, there are lots of alternatives in the US as well. Colleagues I work with have in kids in charter and private schools. Check out:
http://www.uscharterschools.org/pub/uscs_docs/index.htm
Also, I’m not sure if we do “better” here. My daughter went to a private school because of the poor quality of her high school.
Since when did talking about the “President-Elect” become “history”? I would think that the topic (based on the schools argument) would be more of a current events class issue than history class.
In any case, makes no sense to me…
#15 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>I would never enter any career that isn’t
>>pay by performance.
They pay pretty good commissions at Radio Shack, huh?
I taught at two high schools in Indiana. At one no one ever said anything about a union to me and at the other I was asked if I wanted to join the union. I did and, as I’ve said on here many times when people start to go on about those all powerful teacher’s union, all the union did for me was take money out of my check.
If anything it seems as if this story is an example of the weakness of the union. The school administration is limiting the freedom of expression of not only the students but the teachers as well.
# 25 jccalhoun said, “all the union did for me was take money out of my check.”
Umm, what do you think your dues are used for?
Make the people in charge of the union richer and me poorer?
#27 jccalhoun said, “Make the people in charge of the union richer and me poorer?”
And, buy off politicians to make sure that only the education agenda of the Union can exist in the schools…
Well, they must need to raise due then because, as I said, the union didn’t do anything for me.
…and the south continues to prove that they truly are the asscrack of this nation. Shit if they did ” rise again ” Us regular folk above the mason dixon line would be glad to tell them to go. Probably give them mexico or something
Teachers unions were so crappy in New Orleans they were kicked out. Now they are trying to snivel their way back in. Schools are MUCH better without them.
Teachers union seeking to regain foothold in New Orleans schools
http://www.urlsetgo.com//k1Np817gc