Schools not allowing students to mention Obama

PUCKETT, MS (WLBT) - More complaints from parents who say school officials will not allow students to talk about President-Elect Barack Obama.

Melissa Hayes says teachers at Puckett Attendance Center told her daughters they could not talk about Obama in class or in the hallways.

Her daughters, 15 and 18, told Hayes the principal says students can only mention Obama in history class Hayes says she called the school district to find out why, but did not receive any answers.

WLBT was unable to reach a school official this afternoon.

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=9317315&nav=2CSf

at Covington Middle School.

School administrations must have some defense besides, 'We're all Republicans and you can't talk about Obama because he's a Democrat.'

the principal today to find out why.

And get THIS: I talked with a coworker about 30 minutes ago. She has an 8 year old daughter who goes to Christian Private School.

One of the kids (a white boy) burst out in tears, crying his heart out the day after the election, saying that "McCain lost and he hates all black people".

Wonder where he got that, huh?

Several parents (black AND white) have called and emailed the school (my coworker included) their complaints and demanded that the child's parents come in for a discussion.

In the meantime, the kid has been ostracized and the other kids avoid him like the plague.

^^^OK, that is the best part of the story!!! :rofl:

Mount Carmel school, by any chance? I wouldn't be surprised.

yet I don't believe they would have the same problem if HRC was the President Elect.

and the rapture. Just a guess. lol.

:sarcasm:

The psychotic rednecks aren't taking it well around these here parts, especially since Obama won Newton County and we elected our first black sheriff!

Woot!!! :woohoo: :bounce: :toast: :headbang: :applause: :patriot: :woohoo: :bounce: :toast: :headbang: :applause: :patriot: :woohoo: :bounce: :toast: :headbang: :applause: :patriot: :woohoo: :bounce: :toast: :headbang: :applause: :patriot:


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA mofo's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess they can just...what was it they told us...GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:hi:

and here in Texas-you can still tell by looking at the long faces who some of these folks voted for. These folks are unreasonable in their hate because they are full of fear. As big and chest thumping tough as they want to persuade you they are, they are about to piss their pants. They know how they would respond if they were treated as a minority, they are afraid of the shoe being on the other foot. But that is not the way it is, there are some folks rules by their higher natures.

I am so happy to see us put the sad chapter of the civil way behind us and clean this blemish from our country. Barack represents a new start-and that can be scary for some folks.

Public schools have sure turned into oppressive prison camps in the 25 years since I was in them.

You see, the children are benefiting from a new "immersion" program designed to teach them about racism and oppression. Once they have completed the course, they will have a greater understanding of how NOT to be.

I believe it was part of Bush's No Child Left Behind program.

:sarcasm:

That's ridiculous. As long as they aren't interrupting class or school functions, their right to free speech should not be abridged.

We don't want students talking about our President? That's ridiculous!

:mad:

but this works too!! LMAO

on referring to him or to Caribou Barbie? I sincerely doubt it.

this is another century

then Fine.. and show proof.

If not, ever fucking one of the administrators at this school should be fired. Today.

What could possibly be the "educational" reason for not allowing students to discuss the new president elect?

Wonder what will happen to these clowns then, the Weekly Reader goes to schools all over the nation.

I was an administrator for many years and this is outrageous!

would, um, fail to be delivered that week. Or ever again, if they keet mentioning Obama.

It was one of the top NEWS for schools.

Why do they hate amerikkka?!?!

We've finally got our country back - now I damand respect for THE PRESIDENT!!!

Wasn't that their fucking cry all these fucking years?!?!

We don't live in the Soviet Union.

Schools should be encouraging dialog right now, not suppressing it.

To discourage interest in current events, to discourage interest in the political system, etc. :sarcasm:

Seriously, what is wrong with these people? Do they think that if they ignore Obama, he'll disappear? I don't even understand the logic, here.

We had to let the schools talk about bu$h. He will be the President of the United States. If they don't like they can get the fuck out.

Way to go, Jackson Mississippi! Way to shoot down the stereotypes!

:sarcasm:

Puckett is out in the sticks and Pearl is on the redneck side of Jackson.

Bake

They are just a few weeks early in enacting Obama's wishes. :sarcasm:

Just sayin'.

Absolutely fucking ridiculous.

It is the South, you know. I say let the heat from the elections die down because right now it's impossible to have a civil discussion about politics with a right-winged southerner.

I live in the South and everyone here is talking about PEO.

Geesch.

I bet they can discuss local politix about "good Republican" reps.

correctional facility?

to vote for Obama if they can vote in 2012 and they will vote Democratic when they turn 18.

This lame attempt to silence will only make the kids think more counter to their "schools".

Just like rock n roll, pot, booze, etc. Forbidden fruit is the most delicious of them all.

When I was a kid, we were encouraged to discuss our presidents... before, during AND after elections.

These so-called educators need knocked down a few pegs. I find this disgusting and very disturbing.

Now that's progressive!! I'm sure this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind. :sarcasm:

or adult psychology, for that matter.

Whatever you do, don't think about elephants.

of their country? Unbelievable. :grr: Then again, Repukes were never much for reality outside of their own..

about a third of this nation is still dumb as a sack of rocks . . . and it seems that Obama's election has lowered their IQs even more . . .

no fewer than THREE reports on Bush for THREE different teachers. Sheesh.

And now some kids can't even say Obama? WTFever. They should all be WRITING REPORTS on his fabulousness.

district officials should read the tinker vs. des moines decision

is something to be celebrated, not banished.

But then again, it is Mississippi, which is like, what 49th, 50th in terms of eductation. Not hard to see why.

The town is named after a black man.

"The town's actual early founding is tied to Joshua R. Burnham (born 1845). He started the first post office there and an effort was made to name the town Burnham. The government denied the request, some attribute to because he fought in the Civil War. As alternate names were being debated, a black man by the name of Puckett was walking down the road at the time. They submitted Puckett, and it was accepted. From a search of existing records, there is/never was a nearby town named Tishamingo."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckett,_Mississippi

I'm very, very proud of my school.

as they want to and anywhere they want.

Let the school discipline them or expel them and then the parents can sue the living shit out of them.

I seriously cannot believe that I am even reading these reports. It defies all logic and just goes to show the mental feebleness of bigotry...it simply defies reason.

...and tell them about how screwed up they are.

This story needs major media news coverage.

Somebody e-mail Keith about it.

on edit: Recommended and :kick:ed.

Could it be.. in the heart of republican country that kids are not allowed to discuss Obama because it's causing some nasty racist shit and arguments at school?

NOT defending this in the least -- but it's one thing if I believed that the majority of kids would be discussing Obama with admiration down there in Georgia, it's quite another if it's causing discipline problems because of taunting and name-calling.

I'll be curious to see what the details are, and their rationale (which I suspect has more to do with disruption than not wanting to hear his name.) After reading some of the shit on a knitting site I visit, by the SORE losers who support McCain, I have no doubt that this is to spare the school from some ugly racist shit.

to punish the idiots saying the racist shit rather than forbidding children from saying Obama's name?

There is no good way to spin this.

Regards

There was a post on here last week about all the racism being directed at Obama, and how the principal told the teachers and staff they were to step on that everytime they heard it.

If you squash that then have Obama supporters gloating, you would eventually end up with this sort of policy: no talking about it PERIOD.

she asked me if I believed teachers should wear political buttons to school. I answered honestly that at our level it could be difficult for children so I don't do it. She really surprised me when she replied that she wished COLLEGE professors would follow that rule because her daughter, at college, is being indoctrinated by her liberal college professors. I completely lost it. I told her that was what, IMO college is for..I reminded her that her 20 year old daughter is an adult. She snapped back that they are still impressionable and their parents were the only people who should influence their beliefs. I laughed at her, really did she think she still has that much influence on a 20 year old? I asked her how it worked if she demanded something from her daughter she didn't want to do. She turned away. Later she confessed her daughter was voting for Obama and would cancel her vote out and she blamed the college professors for that. I find parents in their mid 40's to be slightly overprotective and controlling of their children anyway and especially this woman.

"The school wants to avoid the possibility of violence (fights) between the students who may view the election results differently...just as a man was arrested in Philly for wearing a McCain t-shirt to an Obama vitory (sic) rally last weekend..

Kids often look for a reason to cause a ruckus. It is a fact of life. The time will come, when the emotions settle down and acceptance of the election results are reflected in the public.. and these kids.. that intelligent conversation can prevail. These educators seem to me to just be implementing a stop-gap measure for the children's safety from each other."



O noes! Say Obama's name; get a backwards B scratched on your cheek! :eyes:

I've seen plenty of hard feelings between Bushite and anti-Bush kids.

my kids are in High school and there is a lot of tension. The kids who supported McCain't are fit to be tied and the teachers are saying"we are not talking about the election we are talking about u.v. rays"

I love my state (except the Lieberman thing of course). :D

Except he doesn't call him a black man...

And that was between two white men. It is very painful to be on the losing side, and knowing how easily some of these kids, especially at the high school level, are loose cannons to begin with, I'd say we ought to give some benefit of the doubt to people making that decision. At first, when I saw it was Mississippi I figured it was purely racist, but remembering how "cheated" I felt 4 years ago gives me the sense that others will have similar emotions. We won; let's not go looking for rednecks under every bed. They are there, but Barack will win over many of them. If not, maybe they'll get to feel what we have felt for 8 years!

Hire a lawyer and sue their dumbasses.

But if so, that is still no reason to squelch free speech.

I would mention his name and I would do it often and I would wear a wire to record it. Let them dare to expel them. Shame on them. It isn't going to change the outcome. There will be President Obama so you damn will better get use to it. Tell your kids to standup and be counted. It is your right. My husband, dad and father-in-law fought in the military for your rights. Now use them.

that I would back them all the way to the Supreme Court and for them to speak as their conscience dictates.

No, I won't give the schools any benefit of a doubt here. If their is drama then the adults need to deal with it and use it as a learning tool about our form of government. If they aren't up to that task then I see little reason that they be certified to educate our children at all.