RSSAbortion, the NEA, and the Moribund First Amendment
Gene Lalor | July 10, 2009
Speech is Free, If You Agree
Public school teachers are notoriously liberal as are former school teachers who move on up the career ladder to become adminstrators. Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; those who can’t teach become administrators.
I knew one guy who went to the principal to beg to get out of the classroom before he killed some of the kids. They created an administrative post for him, Liaison to Cafeteria Staff. Seriously!
Teacher liberalism comes from the top down, starting with the educational arm of the Democratic Party, the ultra-leftist National Education Association.
As with states and municipalities controlled by liberals which are rapidly going bankrupt, under NEA guidance, our schools have been morally bankrupt for generations, in part due to the NEA abortion stance.
Pedagogy has been sent to the back of the room and indoctrination has become the primary focus of our educational system, and our kids show it.
The NEA euphemistically calls abortion a ”reproductive right” although how advocating the killing of pre-born infants in any way relates to reproduction baffles me.
Please see an Eagle Forum report regarding the NEA’s associations with Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, NARAL, NOW, et al.: http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2007/aug07/pro-lifers.html.
One revelation in that report: The NEA has established “an annual fund of $50,000 in grants to pro-abortion advocates across the nation. The NEA promised to award this amount in grants every year until passage of the Freedom of Choice Act.” That funding began 17 years ago. I’m guessing it has grown tenfold in the interim.
To buck the NEA, liberal party line on any issue could bring on the wrath of superiors or, at the minimum, disdain and shunning; to endorse the pro-life position in schools is tantamount to heresy. Still, some “educators” go overboard.
Such was the case of a 7th grader at McSwain Elementary School in Merced, California who had the audacity to assert her First Amendment rights to free speech by wearing a pro-life T-shirt in a pro-abortion venue, namely a public school.
The shirt depicted the 3 stages of an aborted infant’s abbreviated life in utero with the words, “Going, Growing, Gone.” There was no blood, gore, or violence pictured, just two squares showing the baby’s early fetal development and a third black and empty.
Pictures of the fetus were very similar to those found in secondary school science textbooks.
The principal ordered the student, who was wearing the shirt on “National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day,” to discard the food she was about to eat, to remove herself from the cafeteria, and to remove the tee.
What ensued en route to the assistant principal’s office, according to the lawsuit filed by the girl’s parent, added potential injury to the insult when an office clerk grabbed her “arm and forcibly escorted her . . . at all times maintaining a vice-like grip on Plaintiff’s arm:” http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530284,00.html.
Now, I’m well aware that teen girls, and attorneys, are prone to exaggerate, but that’s not the issue.
The issue was whether a public school student was entitled to don a parent-approved shirt which reflected her and her family’s committed beliefs and values, did not cause any disturbance, and did not evoke protest from her peers.
It certainly did not merit Gestapo-like tactics and humiliation of a child in any American school.
Most of the defendants and witnesses did not respond to Fox News inquiries and others hid behind their lawyers.
The legal complaint cited the school’s dress code, which bans clothing with a “suggestion of tobacco, drug or alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, profanity, vulgarity, or other inappropriate subject matter. (emphasis added)
Those last four words provide the administrators with their only defense, the all-encompassing right to ban anything not politically-correct or which runs counter to NEA philosophy on such matters as “reproductive rights,” i.e., favoring abortion.
No effort was made to contact the student’s home, as per standard protocol, and, surprisingly, a Planned Parenthood official commented, “School administrators have a mission to educate, and the student’s right to political speech should be protected in balance with this education mission.”
The whole matter would seem a tempest in a school house except for the administrative overreaction to a student’s expression, not of political speech but of a moral statement in opposition to snuffing out the lives of the pre-born.
As we all know, morality has no place in our public schools. Sex education, free condoms, encouraging homosexuality, yes. Morality? Good grief, no!
The NEA simply does not tolerate such extreme views. Just tuck that Constitution in your school bag, little girl, along with your morality!
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