Sophomore Sean Allen recorded about 20 minutes of Bennish's class during a Feb. 1 discussion about President Bush's State of the Union speech and gave the recording to his father, who complained to the principal, Amole said. "After listening to the tape, it's evident the comments in the class were inappropriate. There were not adequate opportunities for opposing points of view," she said. The student who made the tape agrees. "I've been his class four weeks," says Allen, "and I've never heard another side."How exactly does young Sean know there is another side? Could it possibly be that the family watches and discusses only Fox News or most of the other MSM? Could it possibly be that the family lives with the belief in such misguided and seriously flawed notions as creationism and Bush the almighty? Is it most likely that the student, and other very conservative (also fundamentalist) students, find fault with the rhetoric because they do not, will not, can not, accept that most the "fair and balanced" reporting they hold so dear is grossly deceptive and full of out-right lies? Doesn't academic freedom require speaking truth to power and giving power to the truth, disregarding how much others want to believe in the lies??
Or is it really, that we live in a country precipitously on the brink of fascism that DaHo is now the voice of reason, and that school boards insist that teachers support the lies and bilious obfuscations of MSM rather than present factual evidence of what is true?? Does this school board ever read Media Matters?
