Republicans search schoolroom, remove pro-labor teaching materials

[babsbunny]

Republicans search schoolroom, remove pro-labor teaching materials

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0514/republicans-remove-free-speech-materials/

By Daniel Tencer
Friday, May 14th, 2010 -- 3:27 pm

'A Republican was here. What gives you the right to propagandize impressionable kids?'

Teachers at a middle school in Portland, Maine, are upset with attendees of a Republican convention who rifled through teachers' materials in a classroom they were using and reportedly stole materials from the room, replacing it with GOP slogans.

Officials from the Maine Republican Party quickly apologized this week after local news sources reported on an incident at Portland's King Middle School. Eighth-grade social studies teacher Paul Clifford returned to his classroom following a meeting of the Knox County Republican caucus there to find that his teachers' materials had been rifled through and a poster outlining the history of the US labor movement was missing, replaced with a bumper sticker that reads, "Working People Vote Republican," reports the Portland Press-Herald.

[FormerDittoHead]

1. The metaphor is rich when thinking what they want to do with public education in general. n/t

[aquart]

2. Was the apology in public in the classroom to both teacher and students?

Because, if not, it was worthless.

[aquart]

3. Email for Maine Republican Party's executive director

[e-mail]

[dawgman]

5. thanks

sent her a reprimand.

[ashling]

4. Ironically, the uncouth Republicans have taught a valuable lesson

about the value of critical thinking skills, the value of being able to disagree agreeably in a civil society, the "values" of the Republican Teaparty.

[aquart]

6. And keep your filthy paws off someone else's stuff!

Which most of us have grasped by kindergarten.

[Flubadubya]

9. The #1 "value" of the Republican/Tea party...

is its utter contempt for Democracy... period! :eyes:

[ashling]

7. This needs to get play on Olbermann and Maddow

[Stuart G]

8. Agreed. nt.