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2/28/2008
3:58:20 pm EST
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Wake Schools' Speaker Policy Faces Review
Author: T. Keung Hui Source: The News- Observer
Title: WAKE SCHOOLS' SPEAKER POLICY FACES REVIEW
Faced with complaints today from several Wake County mayors, county school board chairwoman Rosa Gill agreed to review a policy that requires guest speakers to sign a form regulating what they say and do.
Several Wake County mayors complained during a closed-door breakfast meeting that the form, put in place after complaints about a speaker who denounced Islam at Enloe High School, is insulting and condescending to elected officials.
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| Those Poor Muslim Children | Mar 2nd. at 10:32:10 pm EST
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Jenna (Cary, North Carolina) - Email Me
After 9/11, every Muslim in the Western world faced hostility and fear and now their poor children have to put up with this in their very schools. This is disgusting and I hope the parents sue if this ever happens again. What the Jesus freak was pushing was hate speech, nothing more. Imagine if a Muslim speaker came to school and said that Jesus was the son of a Roman general as some people believe. The guy would be in fear of his very life, not just simply barred from speaking. No faith based presentations should be made in a public school. Period. These fundies need to realise that not everyone in America is Christian and even those that are may not agree with a particular sect. If you want your kids to learn about religion, send them to a religious based school. Otherwise, public education is supposed to offer all children, regardless of faith or race, the same freedoms and one of those freedoms is not to be made to feel like the enemy in their learning environment.
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| Striking A Balance... | Mar 1st. at 10:50:40 am EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
seems to be very hard to do these days.
I wish Escamilla the best whatever happens.
Some Speakers seem to have a very few manners when it comes to using a classroom as a forum for his unpleasant oratory. And it is this that is making it necessary for such forms to exist.
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| "Controversial" Comments | Feb 29th. at 10:56:33 pm EST
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me
I was reading one of my favorite publications today, "Primitive Archer", when I came across an interesting bit of philosophy. It was from one professional bowyer, Paul Comstock, to another professional bowyer, Tim Baker, regarding their mutual tendency to occasionally disagree with each other:
"We are of no value to each other if can't disagree."
What has this to do with the news article? Just that when I read this utterance, I was reminded of the fact that there can be no progress in understanding a differing culture (or viewpoint) if there is no social discourse -- complete with the disagreements and all-out verbal fights. If there is no communication between the differing cultures (or viewpoints) , then nothing is learned, both sides stagnate, and begin to die.
To not allow those differing viewpoints is to stagnate one's own culture. If the school is so very worried about someone being "offended" -- the the school should simply use facts to refute the "offensive" comments. This should also be the way to resolve personal disputes, as well.
But it is always so much easier to just limit what can be said, when it can be said, and where it can be said -- as the current Bush administration has consistently done regarding all of the public protests aimed at it (and, yes, even the "Liberal" Democrats do it, too) .
If you don't agree with what is said, that is your prerogative. But please do not attempt to limit what other's may hear, say or think. Our diverse, vibrant American Culture depends on a diverse, vibrant multitude of views -- and that means disagreements, a lot of them. It is how we resolve those disagreements which truly matters.
----nasionnaich
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| If He's Offering A Variety Of Speakers.. | Feb 28th. at 4:56:16 pm EST
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Sy (Atlanta, Georgia) - Email Me
The teacher Escamilla shouldn't have been suspended and transfered. He's offering a wide view, not just one. Sounds like he was just being balanced.
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