Anti-War Teachers Disrupt Recognition of Military-Minded Students

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Anti-War Teachers Disrupt Recognition of Military-Minded Students

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

Last week two Massachusetts High School teachers took it upon themselves to protest against the U.S. Military as students that had announced plans to join our armed forces were receiving recognition from their school. Incensed students and parents called for the teachers to be fired.

History teacher Marybeth Verani and English teacher Adeline Koscher raised signs protesting the military during the June 11 ceremony at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School interrupting the proceedings and angering the parents and their students that were being recognized.

Students were upset that these teachers decided to impose their anti-American, anti-Military view on the room full of attendees during a time meant to celebrate the student’s efforts to serve their country.

Andrew Bowles Jr., a junior at the school, told reporters afterward, “They not only imposed their political will, they imposed it at the wrong time.”

A parent, Joanne Schuman of Yarmouth, thought that the teachers would have been removed from the event.

With this attempt to get their 15 minutes of fame these two selfish teachers decided to put the spotlight upon themselves detracting from the students’ moment of recognition.

To make matters worse, in the audience was the parent of a soldier killed in action in Afghanistan. In attendance was Yarmouth police Lt. Steven Xiarhos, whose son, U.S. Marine Cpl. Nicholas Xiarhos, was lost in action in 2009. This man who lost his son in service to our country was forced to sit through these teacher’s outrageous intrusion as his own son was celebrated for his service.

These left-wing activists should be fired for their disruption of the ceremony meant to recognize the selfless students that had elected to join our military. There are certainly times to discuss current events, but an award ceremony is not one of those times.

It is plain that these two fools were only trying to get into the news. With that they succeeded. Let us hope that their efforts get them fired, never to teach again.

http://elenaives.com/ Elena

Wow, I wonder why they think U.S. military service is bad? Because the U.S. is not worth defending? They sound like Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky wannabes. Makes you wonder what goes on in their classrooms.
StanW

These two idiots should have been brought up on stage by the principle of the school and summarily FIRED in front of the entire assembly. They should be unemployed and unemployable!

UFKA_Smithwick

Teachers Unions.

They could order their students to burn the flag and scream death to America to celebrate flag day and still get a paycheck.

Pattyanna

The pendulum has swung waaaay left and it's swathing the young people who do have respect and honor for our country. In each of our communities we must celebrate – more than ever – the fourth of July and honor the serving and those who have fallen protecting our Great nation whose constitution invokes the blessing of a good and gracious God. Nature resounds the protection of the innocent and preservation of ordered behavior – why must we decline from these strengths?

Mahatma

Why not tar and feather them? Better yet waterboard them.

StanW

Listen Troll, you would be the first on here to scream for thier heads if they stood up with a sign that said “Jesus loves our troops”.

Leftist like you want teachers to be apolitical and agnostic when it suits you, but defend their free speech when they espouse hateful and anti-American rhetoric.

So grow up or shut up!
UFKA_Smithwick

Or you know, advise them not to do it again and explain why their behavior was unacceptable.

Consider they were having a ceremony to celebrate how many of their minority students were going to graduate this year compared to last and move on to college. And the teachers took that as an opportunity to protest against affirmative action.

Do you suppose your reaction and the left/media in general might have been slightly different?
Trench_Raider

Trolling flagged.

Note that “Mahatma” is a known troll and as he posts as a “guest” he is not a legitimate member of this forum and should be treated as such.

TR
Mr. EMT

It wasnt that long ago geriatric citizens were denied the right to open prayer at their nutrition center due to the fact some of the funding for the center was federal money…
Teachers are federally paid, and these two nimrods were abusing their first amendment right on school grounds to protest troops during a ceremony.
The laws that protect your right to free speech, also have provisions that state there are times and places your free speech is not protected. Yelling fire in a crowded auditorium is the example.
The right to peaceably assemble…?

Umm I'm not seeing how the first amendment applies to these dumbasses.
I do see how disturbing the peace can and should be though.
Arrest them, fine them, let them go with the criminal record.
If the school wants to keep them employed after that, parents should also have the right to go to another school… however we know obamao does not want that, and is why he is anti voucher program.

UFKA_Smithwick

Hey teachers, you want to know a really great time and place to protest the war/military? Go to soldiers funerals, that will really show the world what free thinkers you are.

There's another group called the westboro baptist church that has the same schtick. You could sign on with them. Don't worry about the “church” thing. They hate the US and the military as much as you do.

Mahatma

Comparing these teacher to the Westboro Church protesters is just plain cuckoo-bananas!

UFKA_Smithwick

True, I expect the WBC to act that way. I hold teachers to a higher standard.

Apparently I shouldn't.
StanW

Hate for the military? CHECK
Inappropriate place and time to protest? CHECK
Idiocy in full bloom? CHECK

The Westboro 'church' couls take lessons from these two idiots.
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

How so? They are both denigrating our troops for their own purposes at an event specifically to honor said troops. The only difference was the where.
Mr. EMT

Oh… you really like that idea.

Lee

Someone needs to educate these “educators” that freedom isn't free. That liberty is a very fragile, precious thing which has been purchased with the blood of the past and is maintained by the blood of the present and future.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
- John Stuart Mill

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
Mahatma

Their actions were anti-military, but not anti-American. (free speech) If they are disciplined, I would like to see the assistant principal who wore military fatigues to the ceremony receive the same.

UFKA_Smithwick

You can use your free speech and still be anti-American.

When Obamas preacher said “goddamn america” he was using his free speech, he was also being anti-American.

When leftists say they hope American soldiers die they are using their free speech but also being anti-American.
StanW

Right, because wearing military fatigues to an assembly honoring THE MILITARY was inappropriate.

You could not be a bigger fool if you tried.
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

Depends on what the schools dress code says about appropriate dress. It's not a matter of speech.

And the protestors behavior is governed by the districts policy on what's appropiate behavior for teachers. They don't necessarily get full freedom of speech if they are at the event as employees of the school, dip shit. And protesting troops at an event meant to honor them is as anti-American as it gets, fool. It's as disrespectful of the troops as it of the country they about to serve. But then I don't expect a tool like you to understand that.

StanW

Remember Wolf…
Free Speech is anything a Liberal wants to say or do; at any time, any event, for any reason.
Hate Speech is when a Conservative does the same thing.

Mr. EMT

Thanks for the example of a typical leftard mentality.
Ask a leftard if they support the troops, get a yes answer.
Then get an excuse why it is ok to trash them.

Btw, moron, trashing our troops is treasonous. But it is keeping in tradition for communists in America so I can see why you support protesting our military.

whats_up

You are an idiot sir. Trashing our troops is not a treasonous offense. It may be distasteful, but it is not treasonous. Go crawl back under your hole.

StanW

Denegrating our troops in a time of war, when boots are on the ground, is not treasonous to you?

All of my suspisions about you have been proven true, crthns.
Mr. EMT

Thanks for being such a shining example of everything I stated.
You did not have to prove me right at the expense of your meager integrity.
However, since you did, lets face facts.
You have no integrity nor do you possess the qualities to know the difference between a patriot, and a treasonous bastard.
Which is why you are one.

baoxian

Get real. The only thing a teacher would get fired for doing in school is praying.

StanW

Or displaying a picture of George Bush in their classroom.

UFKA_Smithwick

Or teaching history accurately.

Or failing a sub-par student (especially one who happened to be a minority).

northerncanuck

The left used to constantly bray “we support the troops” but I haven't seen that in, oh, about the last 18 months or so.
Hmmm….

StanW

That is because they now have the White House and Congress. They don't need to lie any more.

Rickvid in Seattle

It's all about ME! I will stamp my feet and cry and blubber and glare menacingly and hold my breath until I turn blue and boy will you be sorry then! It's ME ME ME! Look at ME! Listen to what I say! My point of view is more, no, most important. Military baaaad! America baaaaad! Our history books written by Howard “The world would be better if America had never existed” Zinn tell us so!
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

Maybe I'm showing my age, but I long for a return to those days when families could have “personal moments” without having them persistently intruded upon by other people's politics.

I know, I know – “the personal is the political” – yadda, yadda, yadda. Get over yourself and admit that politicising once personal events like weddings, funerals, graduations, etc, only serves to fragment our already fragmenting society even further.

Which I suspect is precisely the point for tools like these two teachers.
Christopher_Taylor

Its sad that these teachers are so immature and rude, but that pretty well defines the activist left.

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