In the Democrat controlled East coast:
This is Crossroads South Middle School in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. On Thursday, there was a back-to-school night for parents of students. Veteran English teacher Shiba Pillai-Diaz says she was shocked when three parents confronted her. The three, insisting the teacher either add John Kerry’s photo to the montage of presidents or remove the Bush photo. When Pillai-Diaz refused, she says the school’s vice-principal threatened her job which is an act that has parents here fuming.
Pillai-Diaz ultimately removed the entire bulletin board and says School Principal Jim Warfel told her she disrupted the school with her “inflammatory politics”. She says he then ordered her out of the building. While she says she is a Bush supporter in her personal life, Pillai-Diaz says she keeps politics out of the classroom.
Shiba Pillai-Diaz, Teacher: “There was no political intent, nor was there any political content in that photograph nor on the bulletin board.”
Unhinged.
I am so glad this election is going to be over soon.
Josh Martin
how DARE a teacher put a picture of the President in her classroom? What’s next, the American flag?
Sandi
“…add John Kerry’s photo to the montage of presidents or remove the Bush photo.”
If it is a montage of presidents, shouldn’t Kerry have to actually be a president first? …Guess not!
No matter how stupid the left has acted in the past, they still never cease to amaze me.
Mark
Well, Sarah Jessica Parker is teaching her son to call Kerry “President Kerry,” so I guess we have a bunch of Sex in the City devotees at this middle school.
Roundguy
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his “fair share.”
Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act,” retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican
wild bird
Small wonder why johnny cant read their too darn busy making johnny into the perfect robot to be obediant to the all controling UN i mean they want to put up con con kerrys picture even before the election its time for that vice priciple to loose his job
WhenJohnnyComesMarchingHome
yeah you might want to do some research before saying things, you should learn from Bush’s mistakes in that department ;)
http://www.peteholiday.com/sbs_statement_10_03_2004.pdf
Unrepentant
Nothing but attention-whoring.
http://www.sbschools.org/boe/announcements.php
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Announcements from the South Brunswick Board of Education
October 3, 2004
District Statement Regarding Bulletin Board at Crossroads Middle School
In an incident that has recently been reported to several media sources, a claim has been made by South Brunswick Middle School teacher Shiba Pillai-Diaz, that she was fired for not removing a picture of President George W. Bush from a classroom bulletin board. The claim is false. While I am normally reluctant to discuss personnel matters in public, Ms. Pillai-Diaz
Eric
And you believe everything this woman is saying? She stated to members of the media that she never brought politics into the classroom
Eric
Wild Bird your comment – “Small wonder why johnny cant read their too darn busy making johnny into the perfect robot to be obediant to the all controling UN i mean they want to put up con con kerrys picture even before the election its time for that vice priciple to loose his job”
Let me respond by saying the the teacher was trying to turn her students into perfect little Republicans… let the students learn to think for themselves before you try to sway them to your personal political views. And you calling for that vice-principal’s job… shame on you! He was trying to protect them from this fanatical woman. I could care less whether this woman is a Republican or Democrat… but she went overboard by trying to shove her views into her students minds. That’s reckless, dangerous teaching!