Right to lifers protest at my High School today with nasty picts and every

thing.

shouting with a bull horn, 4 gory "aborted" babies pictures and passing out leaflets.


the admin says there was nothing they could do since they were on the sidewalk and not on official school property.

I don't understand that logic...I do but I don't ...cause kids can't stand on the sidewalk and smoke...nor can I and I am 40

suggestions for the morning???

keep in mind, I am a teacher and I do like my job

Then afterwards claim that you felt like your personal safety was at issue. With those "pro-life" wackaloons nobody would question your motives.

That was awesome! Sick, but awesome.

to do that without a permit (or did they have one)?

Epsecially if it not a large number of people.

showing dead Iraqis, dead Americans, etc.

I wish I had something constructive to offer, but you have my deepest sympathy, anyway.

All of those pictures are much worse.

Kids without rags for clothes, kids with no decent place to live, kids without proper medicine.

Show them that if they believe life begins inside the womb, it also continues after the womb.

Those "dead Iraqi children" photos are great! It won me lots of friends with the anti-abortion folks....

At least here in Arizona, have a legal obligation to be heavy handed on it and punish students for smoking on school ground or within eye shot of the school while school is in session.

As for the anti-abortion wackos, as much as I loathe my administration, I have to agree.

Best bet would be, ask them not to use the bullhorn or raise their voices, and if your classroom is disrupted, or you feel your classroom is disrupted by their actions, call the police and have them cited for "actions designed to disrupt the educational environment."

You know, the same crime they charge students with when they wear a "George Bush: International Terrorist" shirt.

You are an employee of the district and are subject to the regulations of being an employee; whether it relates to drinking or smoking on or near school grounds (as an example).

The students are under 18 and so smoking on the sidewalk would be illegal and if they are over 18 they are still subject to school rules as long as they are students.

The protestors are just practicing their right to free speech on a public sidewalk. Why are you against that?

Next time your children's schooling gets disrupted all day by anti-abortion asswipes, scream that. They are "disrupting the educational environment," a misdermeanor here in Arizona. As far I am I concerned, protesting abortion at a HIGH SCHOOL seems retarded.

Maybe join the crowd and chant "The Government Should Control Our Bodies!"

ANY grass anywhere near there) and then send the janitor home "sick." So the protesters get wet and maybe decide to go home as well. If they come on campus to complain, the administration can call the coppers.

Sprinklers would not hurt them with the water spray but it might trash their posters.

Just a thought.

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:evilgrin: I'd suggest getting dozens of condoms, filling 'em with water, and having fun.

Show them pictures of war. Maybe they'd like that. And Abu Grhaib pics and Guntanomo Bay. Fight fire with fire.

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They couldn't do that in front of a church that was holding a service. Have your principal call the police and file a noise complaint.

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But they can't have laws against free speech.

There's no better way to win converts to your cause than by annoying the hell out of high school students

... polite kids, etc

At some schools, people who are offending the students could find themselves in a very unpleasant situation.

I taught at a whitebread school, and I just told the kids to call their parents. Cops showed up pretty soon and told the whackjobs they had to move on. The cops said the usual... "creating a traffic hazzard... obstructing a public sidewalk.. mopery.... blah, blah, blah." Lotta lawyers and city movers-and-shakers in the parent group.

The fundies were pissed, but left.

Hell, they got off lucky. Some kids from the Drama club were planning a little performance art piece. Couple of the girls were going to look at the pictures and have hysterical attacks. 9-11 and the cops would be called, along with the local media. The kids figured they could make the fundies look like idiots by showing the effect of their gory pics on "innocent young minds".

I dunno whether it would have worked, but the kids had a good script and great casting.

Then, of course, there was the jocks. Several of them just wanted to kick ass.

Some kids just went out with boomboxes or moved their cars and bombed the fundies with Rap played at 500 decibels.

high schools in the district.

WE are really diverse. The kids are pissed and I think they have something planned...

A John Deere dealership shares a service road with the parking lot of our public high school. One morning, several of the workers of the dealership stood on their side of the road holding up signs as the kids drove into the parking lot. After hearing rumors of pregnant girls at the high school, they took it upon themselves to make signs telling the kids "God wants you to wait". There was nothing school officials could do. The next morning, two senior boys were on the opposite side of the road with their own signs as their classmates drove into the parking lot...."Righty tighty, lefty loosey" "Don't talk with your mouth full" "God wants you to wait to use pi", kinda made a joke of the whole thing.

Telling teenagers what to think or do is not a way of getting your point across. Hopefully some of the kids at the school where you teach will get fed up and react.

and making so much noise that it interrupts classes.

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rocknation

...try to arrange my breakfast so that I could walk right up them and puke.

Then walk away.

Maybe take the day off sick.

I'm sure that there's logic there.

They were on the sidewalk.

Still, there are minors at the high school. Surely they don't have to be subjected to such things.

should have their parents call the superientendent and or the media



the fundies were using babies during their protest and I called child social services...

it was cold this morning and the babies had NO coats on and they were rushing busses with the babies in their arms.


KEEP IN MIND< we have had two gun incidents in the last month

not safe for babies at all in this environment.

we teachers had to deal with the agitated students the rest of the day

or something? I mean if a kid has nightmares that could be interrupted as a form of child abuse so couldn't that make the church libel.

So you'd think getting something done about it wouldn't be that hard.

also on the sixtheenth it marks my five year anivesary of my excommunication from the church who wants to celebrate with me.

wounded and dead in the Iraq War, and pictures of people on death row who were executed for their crimes, and pictures of people slaughtered daily because of our stance on NRA and gun control...Should provoke some stimulating conversation as to what is 'pro-life'?

Download the images from the Porn for War website (do a google) and protest them with the images from the war they support.

Since there really is no point in trying to logically reason with them I just like to fuck with them. One entertaining story I have about this:

I was driving around Marquette, MI one day with my DJing partner. I saw them and I spun around to go play with them a bit. I turned my music down (black metal) and I rolled my window down and asked them where I could get those pictures. They were all jacked because it seemed like I supported the cause. They gave me a bunch of literature and I asked if any of them knew if they were public domain photos. One guy said yes and I responded, "Great, these will make awesome album covers." Crude? Yeah, but fun.

Another thing I like to tell them to get them riled up is, "An unwanted fetus is no better than a tapeworm."

For the record I have had these guys get violent with me before, well, until I get out of the car and they discover that I'm 6'9" 350 lbs. Then they cower a little. So I don't necessarily suggest everyone fuck with them.

That's what the sign said that I proudly displayed at the protest that took place at a hospital near my house... i thought it was funny, most people there didn't

or "pro life". they are anti women and anti choice. And we wonder why Democrats don't do well.. You use their terms then you are playing their game by their rules and when Democrats do that they always lose.

There's no better way to win converts to your cause than by annoying the hell out of high school students