Dim bulbs in Bushland

[eridani]

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Last night I went to a meeting at my eleven-year-old’s school....

The teacher told of an exercise wherein he read from both the Bush and Kerry websites. He read where each of the candidates stood on the main issues of the campaign. He didn’t say who was who… just “this is what candidate one says, this is what candidate two says”.

The kids made tally marks about each thing they agreed with from each candidate.

Then the kids voted on the issues.

Four kids voted for Bush. 26 kids voted for Kerry....

This is Bush country, make no mistake about it…

…as illustrated by the fact that most of the kids who voted for John Kerry were greatly upset by it. They booed the results of their vote. They were upset that they had voted for the “wrong guy”.

Glancing around the classroom at the faces of the other parents, I could see that many of them were disturbed as well. What could have gone wrong? How had they failed their children? What did this mean?
The teacher went on to say that he assured the kids that the election was not yet over, and that there still might be many issues where they would agree with George W. Bush, and maybe when they tried again later, they would end up voting for him.

The parents looked relieved as well.

The gears that had begun to grind uncomfortably in their heads smoothed out and they relaxed.

[SoCalDemocrat]

1. excellent

I wish all elections were held this way, purely on the issues.

[George_S]

2. Oil

Gears not well oiled with propaganda tend to grind. FR is a well oiled machine.

[KT2000]

3. Too bad

the teacher didn't use the opportunity to teach critical thinking.

[spooky3]

4. Exactly! I was just thinking "what a GREAT exercise" and then the teacher

pandered. He must have feared for his job--that all the Rethug parents would complain to the principal that he made the kids deal with facts.

[Guaranteed]

5. ROFL

Awesome post. Thanks.

[merbex]

6. It shows that Repugs don't think,

which confirms everthing I think about them.They vote party,and are happy with punchy talking points which requires no thinking.

Obviously,when their children are forced to differentiate between stands on issues and their kids choose Kerry, there is potential to win back these voters.It's all about how we frame the discussion.Unfortunately,the parents have been conditioned by the Repugs and their media lapdogs to stick their fingers in their ears when a democrat opens their mouth.This is going to be a long process.

I wish the teacher had presented this as a written test and sent it home for further discussion. In my opinion it was very fair.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. "They booed the results of their vote"

LOL.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Goes to show you that A LOT of voters choose on the virtue of the wrapping

paper, not the contents of the package.

[drfemoe]

9. kickster

:kick:

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Brave teacher to tell that story in Bush* country!

Of course he was covering his ass, but if they think about what he said. . .

[cheshire]

11. The teacher should have told the parents they can learn from the

kids.JHC :wtf: when kids are smarter than parents. Pandering teacher is following that hypnotic disc to hell too.