A courageous comment from a Republican teachers' union leader on censorship of Obama speech

[Liberty Belle]

Paul Schnaubelt, head of the teachers' union in our area, just posted this comment at the end of a story East County Magazine ran on the LMSV board's special Labor Day vote to ban Obama's speech in this eastern San Diego County district:

I represent the teachers of the La Mesa Spring Valley School District. As reflected by the community we serve, many of the members of our teachers Association are Republican and/or conservative. Today our members were very disheartened to be working in a district that would take such action.

It is patently unfair that we are required to work with very difficult students and our school board would knowingly stop us from using the power of the presidency to motivate the students. I have been a teacher, and an educational leader in this district for almost 25 years. We recently took a 3% pay cut in order to maintain the programs necessary to continue our educational excellence. I am saddened that our Board is is more concerned with partisan politics than about the children they serve.

The teachers I represent will continue to ensure that the students of this district receive an exemplary education as reflected in our school rankings and test scores. I would hope the public is as outraged as we are and will make sure the board hears their displeasure.

(Note, for the full story on this controversial decision, which has sparked public outrage, click here: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/?q=node/1860#comment-490)

[MissMarple]

1. Good for him, intellectual integrity is a thing to be fostered.

:applause:

[sabrina 1]

2. Why don't we hear more from Republicans like him?

I know many of them, yet the Republican party is represented in the Media by a bunch of screaming, insane, lying cartoon figures that no country in its right mind would even want to claim as ordinary citizens.

People like him give me hope for this country. He and Laura Bush deserve credit, as it takes courage to stand up for what is right when they know they will most likely be vilified by the rabid right for doing so.

Thank you Paul Schnaubelt.

[zbdent]

3. aside from the fact that this person showed he has a brain ...

isn't "Republican teachers' union leader" a contradiction in terms?