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New York Teachers Want To Campaign For Obama In Classroom

They’re protesting policies requiring them to be “politically neutral” at school.

NEW YORK - The teachers’ union for the nation’s largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were violated.

United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten announced at a news conference that a lawsuit had been filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to challenge the enforcement of the policy.

“We couldn’t believe it,” said Weingarten, who wore a Barack Obama lapel button. The American Federation of Teachers, including its UFT delegates, voted over the summer to endorse Obama’s presidential candidacy.

A ban on campaigning or expressions of political support for a candidate or political party or even an issue seems appropriate to me.  Public schools are, after all, public.  Parents don’t send their children to school to be indoctrinated politically, though that’s clearly what a lot of these teachers want.  They send their children to school to learn things like mathematics, science, reading and writing.

Free speech rights are not absolute.  Most of us realize that when you’re working for someone else you don’t necessarily have the right to say whatever you want and stay employed.  Maybe some employers allow their employees to talk politics on the job, but most employers would rather stay politically neutral and reserve the politics for everyone’s personal time.

Again, this is perfectly reasonable.  But then, there’s nothing reasonable about the teacher’s unions.

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It’s a typical Chicago Annenberg Challenge [Marxist] type of effort to indoctrinate a captive audience of schoolchildren in order to “radicalize” a new generation of Americans.

Karl Marx had a vision about which he wrote in The Communist Manifesto: “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.”

Karl Marx

Karl Marx would be proud.

Joel on October 11, 2008 at 08:00 am

Joel” Nothing can be added, you said it all in a concise and accurate way.


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Neiman on October 11, 2008 at 08:16 am

It’s New York....

These people are going to vote for a left-wing democrat thug, no matter his prior deficiencies or his further consequences.

They brought to us the likes of Chuck Schummer, the Cuomo’s, and various other politicians.

It’s only fitting that the re-incarnate of Josef Goebbels has come back as a US public educator.

Eneils Bailey on October 11, 2008 at 08:28 am

Thanks for the heads up.  I’ll be watching for a similar move by the California Teachers Union. 

It should come as no surprise the worst performing education systems in the United States are dominated by far left liberal dems.  Their support of Obama stems from the fact the gravy train of public funding which provides a platform for their socialist agenda and brain washing is guaranteed with a Dem in office.  That funding becomes threatened should a Republican take office and demand accountability.

Gary M. on October 11, 2008 at 08:44 am

Isn’t that a violation of the Hatch ACT?


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goon on October 11, 2008 at 09:10 am

Based on high school students’ scores on the American College Test, used by many colleges in considering admissions, Chicago public schools are the worst in the country.

They got even worse after Obama and Ayers spent the $50 million of Annenberg money on “Afrocentrism” rather than math,science and reading comprehension.

When the scores of the Chicago students were averaged, half of the city’s 64 public high schools ranked in the bottom 1 percent of schools that gave the test.

Joel on October 11, 2008 at 09:19 am

Chicago public schools are the worst in the country

What Obommer did for public education in Chicago, he will do
for our country.

Eneils Bailey on October 11, 2008 at 09:40 am
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This is nothing new. My daughter is a senior in Las Vegas. Her Government AP teacher has campaigned for Barack, several of her classmates are eligible to vote. He has posted fliers that advertise Obama rallies. Another teacher, CompLangAP, has repeated many of the lies regarding Sarah Palin, accused Republicans of being uncreative, unintelligent, narrow minded, religious zealots.

She is so frustrated by this, but when I said I would contact the principal to protest this behavior, she asked me not to as she likes both teachers and doesn’t want to get them in trouble. When I attended open house, both of these men remarked on her political awareness, knowledge and ability to counter their assertions in class. Both said that they admired her willingness and ability to articulate her opinions and to defend positions that are not popular with her classmates.

What really galls her is that of those who are eligible to vote, her classmates are ignorant of the facts and will most likely vote for Obama. She cannot vote as she won’t be 18 until next year.

Jvette on October 11, 2008 at 10:05 am
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Interesting that since teachers are not permitted to even have a Bible sitting on their desk, because that could be construed as proselytizing their students, I guess the teacher’s union would support their wearing of campaign buttons that say something like: “I love Jesus”?



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Proof on October 11, 2008 at 10:06 am
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I assume this would violate Hatch, as the Sheriff in Fla. is in trouble for speaking at the McCain Palin rally while in his uniform, even though he was not on duty.
Public Education is the biggest joke ever known to man! When I saw the post about the parent out in CA who took a group of 1st graders on a field trip to their teachers lesbian wedding!My goodness was I misty-eyed!One little 6 yr. old girl was wearing a vote no on prop. 8 button and her mommies were getting married themselves in a few weeks. The kids {there were 2} whose parents didn’t want them to attend, stayed behind at school w/ another 1st grade class. I cannot believe there weren’t more parents p.o., even in CA. I know that sounds naive, I have traveled a good bit, out of the country 8 times, but I’ve never been to CA, or NY. I’m not sure I can handle it. Is it really this bad?

di butler on October 11, 2008 at 11:53 am
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Jerry on October 11, 2008 at 02:34 pm

di butler - CA education is that bad and worse.  The list is too long to detail here.  One has to look at some of the statistics to understand how bad things are.  I won’t bore you with specific numbers, but according to National Education Statistics the spending per student in the Los Angeles Unified School District is approaching $10,000 per year. Only Wash D.C. spends more.  LAUSD is ranked near the bottom. Perhaps Chicago will have a run for it’s money soon.  There are Spanish only schools in the system, and the H.S. drop out rate is @25%, with many schools exceeding 50%. And trust me, I live in very liberal Long Beach, and the system here is fully Obamatized.  Education is a complete failure, and each time new disasters are uncovered, the battle cry is “give us more money.”
If anyone wants to know what the U.S. will look like with all three branches of govt. in the hands of Dems., look no further than California.  I don’t need to hear that the Terminator is Republican.  Lowering taxes takes a 2/3 majority and no democrate will vote for it.  CA has the highest income taxes, the highest Corporate taxes, and the highest average sales tax. Because the small number of Repubs. have fought even higher taxes (no 2/3 majority), we pay the highest fees for services in the country (simple majority to pass, and not requiring Govs. signature.  Oh, and we are going bankrupt. 
Scream it from the mountain tops!  NOBAMA NOBAMA NOBAMA

Gary M. on October 11, 2008 at 04:11 pm
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Thanks Gary. Just reading about it is hard to imagine. I mean our school systems suck, too, just not to this level. Do you have kids? Do they go to public schools?

di butler on October 11, 2008 at 08:17 pm

A Union demanding special rights and privileges. Why is anyone surprised?


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2Hotel9 on October 12, 2008 at 05:26 am

di b. - To answer your question - Yes, my wife and I have two kids.  Both thankfully have graduated from college, and both went to public schools.  K-12 was in a school system outside of Los Angeles. We paid a ton of money to buy a home in that area because of the schools. Both graduated from State Universities (Cal State, and Univ. of Cal.) Both those Universities are dominated by left wing agenda pushing Professors.  I’ll give you an example.  My daughter was required to take a course on Woman’s Studies at Univ. of Calif., Irvine.  Her Prof. required all the students to write a paper on how men had exploited them in their lives.  She told the Prof. that no one, let alone a man, had ever exploited her.  The Prof. told her to write the paper, or fail the class.  She ended up making up a story.  To what purpose would such a paper be required? My son had similar experiences.  These are publicly funded universities. The radical left dominates our education system here.  It is outrageous, and it provides irrefutable evidence of liberals extreme hypocrisy, and an ideology devoid of respect and integrity.  It’s no wonder liberals choose to ignore evidence of all the Messiah’s ties to radicals and thiefs.

Gary M. on October 12, 2008 at 08:10 am
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Gary,

Yeah, my kids are grown, too. They went to public elem. schools in small southern town, not too many problems, but if I had not taught them at home, not sure if they could read over a 4th grade level. For high school my son went to a local Christian school, it is a PACE school. My daughter wanted to go to boarding schools, so we sent her to a great school a couple of hrs. away. It was expensive,$ 30k a yr., but she loved it. My neighbor’s 1st grader came home the other day with a bad conduct notice because she had hugged 2 other children that day. The teacher said she violated the sexual conduct code. That is so sad. the radical left doesn’t dominate schools here, but more and more of them are infiltrating. The reason the radicals ignore the issues w/ Obama is because they agree with the socialist ideas.

di butler on October 12, 2008 at 04:19 pm
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