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Related: About this forumWisconsin: The Substitute Teacher (OMG, it's Scott Walker)
Coverage thanks to Cognitive Dissidence.
Dear Parents of 4th Grade Students:
I am writing to inform you that Governor Scott Walker is coming to visit [name redacted] School on Thursday, September 13th and will speak with all of our 4th grade students! Governor Walker and a professional from the Wisconsin Historical Society are coming to [this school] to celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. They will present a lesson to all of our 4th grade students from 9:15 am until approximately 10 am. Students will hear about the signing of the Constitution and be able to ask the Governor some questions they may have for him.
There is then a paragraph regarding the need to sign a permission slip because the media will be there and will be taking pictures that could end up on TV and/or the paper. What? Did you expect Walker to do anything that wasn't a photo op and something he could use to further his political career, as short lived as that might be due to Walkergate?
But if the irony hasn't reached toxicity levels yet, I have learned that Walker's people have already told the schools that the children are not going to be allowed to ask questions unless they are strictly related to the Constitution. This wipes out the question, "Why do you hate teachers?"
But it still leaves wide open the question: "Why do you continue to violate the First Amendment? Why do you hate Free Speech and the Right to Assemble?"
Hopefully the parents have their kids prepared. One parent indicated she's getting a red t-shirt for her child showing support for the striking teachers in Chicago. Pretty obvious why Scooter picked 4th graders and not high school seniors.
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Wisconsin: The Substitute Teacher (OMG, it's Scott Walker) (Original Post)
Scuba
Sep 2012
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madrchsod
(58,162 posts)1. 4th grade?
yes... most high school kids are far smarter than he is...
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Rumors that he'll be reading from "My Pet Goat" remain unsubstantiated.
lutefisk
(3,974 posts)3. This thread is useless without pictures:
ewwww!
midnight
(26,624 posts)5. lutefish is that Rove next to walker?
lutefisk
(3,974 posts)6. It certainly looks like the Rove
That picture is surreal.
Walker is like Bush- there are very few places he can surface outside of Republican only events. He really shouldn't be allowed in schools, though.
midnight
(26,624 posts)4. Is the former governor's education law about teaching labor history
implemented yet? I should think either way these children could give Walker a lesson too.....