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2004-09-23 Fifth Column

Msukegon Teachers Equate Home Schoolers With Terrorists

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Posted by Secret Master 2004-09-23 2:12:17 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The exercise will simulate an attack by a fictitious radical group called Wackos Against Schools and Education who believe everyone should be homeschooled.

Does one laugh or cry at this? Do the public schools still attract people with good brains and a fair grasp of reality? Who the f*** are these idiots?

Posted by lex 2004-09-23 5:23:56 PM|| 2004-09-23 5:23:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Lex:
Why not go to the MAISD feedback website and share your thoughts with them care of Kristin Tank, their Public Information coordinator? I just did.

http://www.muskegon-isd.k12.mi.us/feedback.htm

Posted by Secret Master 2004-09-23 5:56:41 PM|| 2004-09-23 5:56:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 How about carrying recall petitions to the next school board meeting , and tell the members, YOU ARE OUT!

Might be instructive!

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-23 6:08:54 PM|| 2004-09-23 6:08:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 From Michelle's Malkin's entry on this subject:

This is the clown who came up with this:

From: Daniel Stout: (231) 724-6341
stoutda@co.muskegon.mi.us

In the world today Homeland security is very a important issue. The training of our nation to respond to the many threats we face is of utmost importance. As part of a full scale homeland security exercise on September 21, 2004 in Muskegon, I wrote about a fictional group and fictional scenario for the exercise. This fictional group and scenario made reference to fictional people who are against schools. This fictional group and scenario was not meant to offend any home school students. It has nothing to do with any home school population. Home school students and former students are a very important part of our nation. This scenario will not be used again.

Daniel Stout
Muskegon County Emergency Services

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Here is a statement from the school district

Statement from the MAISD Superintendent Michael H. Bozym, Ph.D.

September 21, 2004

Contact: Kristin Tank, Public Information Coordinator, MAISD, (231) 767-7263

The Muskegon Area Intermediate School District (MAISD) shared the disappointment of others when we learned the September 21, 2004, emergency preparedness drill referenced home schoolers as the fictitious group responsible for a mock disaster. We apologize. The MAISD and local districts were not aware of the scenario, and it was not shared with students or parents who took part in the exercise.

According to Dan Stout, Chief Deputy, Emergency Services of Muskegon County, this scenario was constructed in his office. A sample scenario as required in order to receive the necessary funding to stage the event. The Muskegon Area Intermediate School District and our local schools did not construct the scenario, but participated with other county agencies, hospitals, and emergency responders in conducting the drill.

This exercise was meant to sharpen the skills and response time of our emergency services personnel, but was unfortunately clouded by the choice of this fictional group. We believe this exercise had everything to do with testing emergency response time and the protection of our children. It had nothing to do with the home school population.

As educators, we believe that the first and most important teacher is the parent, whether in home schools, public schools, or non-public schools. We all work together to ensure a safe and secure environment for our children to live and grow.

We sincerely regret offending home school educators. We believe that all parents are educators and do important work at home with their children.

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Please forward all additional questions and comments to the Public Information Coordinator at the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District at ktank@remc4.k12.mi.us or (231) 767-7263.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-09-23 6:17:42 PM|| 2004-09-23 6:17:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 How about

Daniel Stout
Get yo' ass out
'Cause we don't want to find
Any more of your kind

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-23 6:22:14 PM|| 2004-09-23 6:22:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I sent Ms. Tank the following email:

I was alarmed to see that the most recent exercise performed by your organization featured an imaginary group named Wackos Against Schools and Education, an organization of radical home schooling terrorists who, apparently, take time out from their already taxing schedules to murder other people's children. Setting aside for a moment the too blatantly obvious (if politically incorrect) fact that a majority of terrorist child-slaughtering in the world is committed by Fundamentalist Muslims, does your organization really feel comfortable targeting this particular group of parents with hate speech? I believe that if you and your agency take some time out to reflect diligently upon the controversies surrounding the public vs. home schooling question you might, in the future, refrain from using such inflammatory language when creating entirely imaginary terrorist organizations for your exercises.

Thank you for your time. If you wish you may comment upon enclosed email at http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.asp?D=9/23/2004&ID=44046&HC=2, where the matter of your organization's unfortunate choice of words is currently being discussed. To be honest, at the moment it's being discussed all over the web.

Posted by Secret Master 2004-09-23 6:31:52 PM|| 2004-09-23 6:31:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 SM - well said!

Posted by 2B 2004-09-23 10:04:46 PM|| 2004-09-23 10:04:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 SM,

It's one reason the military sticks with Blue Force, Orange Force, etc. Yeah, you can read the scenario and figure out that Orange Nation is Iran, but it's so less politically stressful.

BTW without the Internet would we have ever found about this idiocy? No, because in the minds of the Dan Rathers of the MSM, Homeschooler= Christian Nutjob= Taliban= Terrorist.

Posted by Dreadnought 2004-09-24 1:27:36 PM|| 2004-09-24 1:27:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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