Bill Ayers

[ScoobysMom]

Is suppose to speak at Naperville North WTF, my kid would not be in school that day

[halfman]

I'd have to hear what he has to say. 10-1 he's now content to look on high from his ivory tower and would do or say nothing to jeopardize his hard-won status given to him be institutions like ones he has previous sacked.

I wonder if he is an intellectual hardass or if he is teaching a philosophy of equity, or, more importantly, if he is projecting one.

[ScoobysMom]

Good News they have decided it's not such a good aidea to have this idiot speaking in front of their students!

[Downstate Dad]

Originally Posted by ScoobysMom

Good News they have decided it's not such a good aidea to have this idiot speaking in front of their students!

I am sorry, but there is nothing good about censorship. Ever.

Halfman, he has done a lot of work on educational reform. He often talks about replacing huge schools with smaller ones that are focused on the students instead of on the administrative advantages.

[TomCiezki]

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Originally Posted by ScoobysMom

Good News they have decided it's not such a good aidea to have this idiot speaking in front of their students!

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Originally Posted by ScoobysMom

I'm not quite getting your point here, but as hard as it may to believe with this new President and all of his clowns............The last I checked our constitution still protected our right to free speech.

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[ScoobysMom]

Originally Posted by TomCiezki

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No one is stopping him from speaking, but tell me this do you want the head of the KKK speaking to your high school students, or maybe the local mobster?
There has to be a line where an administrator says no.

He can go to the media, he can get a permit and preach his garbage in the park and no one will stop him, but people don't have to come either if they don't want to.
But many times when schools have these speakers come in, it is mandatory that a student go listen that is why my first post said, my child would not be in school the day he was there if i had a child at that school

So please don't go trying to miscontrue what I have said yet again

[ScoobysMom]

Originally Posted by Downstate Dad

I am sorry, but there is nothing good about censorship. Ever.

Halfman, he has done a lot of work on educational reform. He often talks about replacing huge schools with smaller ones that are focused on the students instead of on the administrative advantages.

I'm not sure how decided not to have a terrorist speak at thier high school is censorship, would you feel differently if if the leader of the KKK?

[TomCiezki]

Originally Posted by ScoobysMom

He can go to the media, he can get a permit and preach his garbage in the park and no one will stop him, but people don't have to come either if they don't want to.

By garbage, do you mean his theories on education reform, for which he co-authored a grant proposal that led to the City of Chicago being awarded 49 million dollars for public school reform?

His scandalous past is a debate in and of itself, but to try and deny/mitigate what the man has done in/for the world of education is wrong.

[TomCiezki]

Originally Posted by ScoobysMom

I'm not sure how decided not to have a terrorist speak at thier high school is censorship, would you feel differently if if the leader of the KKK?

Actually no, I wouldn't feel differently. That is the point of the principle behind free speech...there is no NEED to have a law that protects popular because nobody will try to suppress it in the first place. It is the controversial, unpopular views that require the protection of the state so that those people also may be heard.

[FoxesFan]

Originally Posted by TomCiezki

By garbage, do you mean his theories on education reform, for which he co-authored a grant proposal that led to the City of Chicago being awarded 49 million dollars for public school reform?

How's that working out? I mean, are the kids getting a better education based upon Mr. Ayers' 'theories'?