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School reviewing teacherâs decision to show kids Sept. 11 footage

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Posted by Yosemite Sam 2003-09-15 12:50:15 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 OMG! A social studies teacher showing a video about current events! We cannot allow that to happen! I mean next we will be showing things which really happened like bus bombing.... we can't have that!

BS is right.

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-9-15 1:20:40 PM|| 2003-9-15 1:20:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 When in the hell does a teacher need to get permission from parents or administrators to do the job he was hired to do in the first place?! What a load of crap!

Posted by Dar 2003-9-15 1:27:22 PM|| [http://users.stargate.net/~dsteckel/] 2003-9-15 1:27:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Permission? Admin Leave? Submit a Statement?

This must've been an up-scale district where people are more, um, sensitive.

Posted by .com (Prez for Life - My Isles of Langerhans) 2003-9-15 2:11:15 PM|| 2003-9-15 2:11:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 .com - you hit it right on. Cherry Creek is like an affluent Boulder.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2003-9-15 2:13:58 PM|| 2003-9-15 2:13:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh man, YS - this is just so sad and pathetic. Someday, rather sooner than the deniers can handle I'll bet, there are going to be some remarkably stupid decisions and asshat foolishness come back to haunt the haughty ill-informed elites. I hope it's publicly and utterly embarassing, since that's the worst thing you can do to people like these. Phools.

Posted by .com (Prez for Life - My Isles of Langerhans) 2003-9-15 2:19:32 PM|| 2003-9-15 2:19:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 There is nothing in post to indicate context of rest of lesson.What reason(s) did he give for attacks?I would like to know what he was trying to teach before I rushed to teacher's defence.Having said that,I will say it is ridiculous to suspend a teacher solely for showing class a video repeatedly aired over CNN and other broadcasters.

Posted by Stephen 2003-9-15 2:32:03 PM|| 2003-9-15 2:32:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I made my 10th grader watch a World Trade Center show last week instead of a "reality" show. Am I in trouble?

Posted by Tom 2003-9-15 3:00:39 PM|| 2003-9-15 3:00:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Stephen - If the story is correctly stating it: CNN's coverage, then I think we're on the right track. Pretty hard to take away anything from the incredible horror of that morning - even if it was CNN. It took them at least a week to start apologizing for us being attacked...

Catch this thread on LGF? Tilley's story:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=8099#c0195

Not polished - just how it happened. Awesome read. Recommending this would probably get Ritter fired outright.

Posted by .com (Prez for Life - My Isles of Langerhans) 2003-9-15 3:08:58 PM|| 2003-9-15 3:08:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Apparently he's back to work this morning, after the STUDENTS and their PARENTS protested his suspension! Guess the administration kinda, sorta, over-reacted to a nothing story, trying to make something happen that didn't. Hope a lot of the school board members got nasty calls.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-15 3:44:17 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-15 3:44:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I guess concentration camp pictures would be definitely out of the question. Nothing like editing evil out of the syllabus; gives a fairer shake to the perpetrators.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-15 4:41:50 PM|| 2003-9-15 4:41:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Something tells me that the TEACHERS there were taught under NEA-run OBE.

Posted by Katz 2003-9-15 4:51:34 PM|| 2003-9-15 4:51:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Update.

Posted by Katz 2003-9-15 5:10:36 PM|| 2003-9-15 5:10:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I guess they then rule out any history before the 1970's. Would not want to tramatize little jimmy with pictures of 'WHITE ONLY' drinking fountains, restrooms, and schools as well as concentration camps or 'ovens'.... And god forbid they show a slave (of any color).

Would like to note that the SCHOOL DISTRICT did this and not the parents or students. Asshats!

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-9-15 5:20:54 PM|| 2003-9-15 5:20:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 That was a good duck and cover by the school district to avoid coverage on the O'Reilly factor.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-15 8:18:41 PM|| 2003-9-15 8:18:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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