Amendment

There is an error in my post about the teacher who was reprimanded and kept from teaching his class from the Declaration of Independence. Zach was the first to point this out to me this morning (thank you, Zach), and he was absolutely right. I wrote that the teacher was fired. This is not true. He was simply kept from using one of our founding documents as material from which to teach.  Still just as absurd.

I had gotten this story confused with the story of a teacher who was kicked out of her school's building because she had a display of the US presidents. Naturally, a picture of our sitting president was included, and parents complained. The vice-principle demanded she either remove the picture of President Bush or at least include a picture of John Kerry. The teacher refused on the grounds that  it was a bulletin board profiling American presidents; it was historical, not political, therefore including a picture of John Kerry would be ridiculous.

I love how the left calls the right fascists, but it's the left that is trying to derail our freedom of speech and just plain freedom to teach history and current events. Really, they're doing such a disservice to the future generation by preventing them from knowing our heritage. But maybe that's the intention...the continued dumbing down of our kids. Dumb people do make great followers.