Frontburner: Plug Your Ears, Kids. Obama's in Town
Frontburner's Trey Garrison, after diligent research (reading the morning paper) has uncovered an egregious abuse of taxpayer dollars in charter schools, an act that is "certainly unethical, if not actually illegal." Certainly. What is this heinous crime, you wonder? It's taking time out from history classes about musty old topics like, say, the Lincoln-Douglas debates in order to allow school children to watch history being made in their very own city. Maybe you've guessed it. The "certainly unethical, if not actually illegal" incident is taking students to Barack Obama's rally at Reunion Arena.
Garrison doesn't say exactly what it is about this that he finds so objectionable. Perhaps it's bringing current events into the classroom. Or, in this case, taking the classroom to the current events. Perhaps it's letting the kids hear uncensored political talk and the fear that they will be indoctrinated. Perhaps it's the class discussing what they heard. Perhaps it's the teacher planning to make a habit of this, taking the students to events of other candidates as they come to town, too. Or perhaps it's just that Garrison is frustrated that a Libertarian Party rally can't fill a Starbucks. (Today's vocabulary word is [Click me].)
3 comments:
One grows tired of this snarky punk Garrison and his "don't tread on me" posturing.
He's libertarian. It's an easy philosophy to follow. No heavy lifting required. But still, he's worth reading. Because libertarians are right a little more often than the proverbial broken clock.
anonymous - By all means, do come try to tread on me. You know where my office is.
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