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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 02:48 AM Original message |
Why don't more kids protest? High-schoolers face expulsion--for singing Kumbaya. |
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99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. wow. that's way cool & a bit creepy too. but thanks for the post. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. And it shows why we need to keep paying our dues to those who protect |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. My 8th grader nagged me until I got us both ACLU memberships last year. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I think that institutional power has gotten more rigid and overreaching |
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99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Maybe I'm living in an Oregon "bubble of Lefties" but when my kids were in school |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 11:54 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I think "terror" has been the rationalization for lots of schools to clamp down. |
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Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:23 AM Response to Original message |
2. There are many subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which the right to assemble |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. And this is a clasic in a fascist shift |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. That's why I wanted to put this one out there. |
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lostnfound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
8. America has handed away so many of its freedoms in name of "education" |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:06 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I'm afraid that is a description, more and more of the public schools. |
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lostnfound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. self delete nt |
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lligrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:57 AM Response to Original message |
12. Mob Activity??? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Apparently at this school it means holding hands and singing. n/t |
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Beerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. How about expel the school board? |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
16. Kumbaya has religious undertones ya know, dangerous stuff in schools |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
17. k&r |
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gollygee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. Another thing to add to my list of "if my district did this, I'd homeschool" |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
19. And the facists come out of the woodwork.... |
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Sentath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 06:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. Not that I agree... |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
20. Why didn't they just taze the kids and get it over with? |
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Beerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:06 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Hey! Ease-up on the tasers! |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
21. Gasp! You mean this was not in a "red state"? |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Have I told you lately that I love you? |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:02 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Some of the suburbs in the Chicago Land area are extremely red |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
23. They just had the wrong "message" |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
24. Well, the song does have fundamentally religious overtones |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
26. Join Cindy Sheehan and others who are petitioning against explusion for these students |
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ClayZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
28. K&R |
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