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Horne Slams High School War Protestors
August 7th, 2007 @ 5:15pm
by Doug Ramsey/KTAR
The Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction is unhappy with anti-war demonstrators who made appearances Monday at some Valley high school campuses. Tom Horne said the protesters were doing more than telling students how to remove their names from military recruiting lists.
"In fact, what they're doing is propagandizing the students, urging them to take their names off the lists, trying to interfere with the recruiting process in order to hurt their own country," he said. "I think that's a terrible thing to do."
Horne called the actions of the demonstrators "destructive."
HORNE SAYS WAR PROTESTORS OUTSIDE ARIZONA HIGH SCHOOLS ARE SENDING THE WRONG MESSAGE
PHOENIX (Tuesday, August 07, 2007) -- In response to reports that war protestors have been confronting high school students with a message critical of military recruiting efforts on high school campuses and passing out postcards asking students to remove their contact information from the public school list provided to recruiters, state schools superintendent Tom Horne issued the following statement:
"I’ve been working hard to get our schools to teach history, government and civics to our students. History teaches us that countries not willing to defend themselves soon disappear. Reasonable people can differ about a particular war, but to have adults teaching students to be hostile to the military institutions that defend our freedom is educationally dysfunctional. I urge these adults to look in the mirror and decide to do something constructive for education, rather than destructive. They have a First Amendment right to speak, but I have a First Amendment right to criticize them."
Superintendent Tom Horne is an elected official. He needs to hear from us (602)542-5393. AZ Dept. of Education 1535 West Jefferson St. Phoenix 85007 (Might be another person/location to protest)
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