By: Larry Felson

Larry Felson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:53:02 +0000

Once more, the oh so anonymous teacher from Oakland who likes to make fun of
students and teachers who take up and act on their political beliefs shows his own
jaundiced and cowardly ignorance in the face of major political issues of the day
directly affecting high school students. This time it is the Jena 6. I wonder why Mr.
Oakland High teacher didn’t mention the whites only tree, the nooses hung in the tree,
the attacks on Black students (including a gun being pulled) or the upwards of 50,000
people, including many students, who went back to protest in Jena on Sept. 20th. I guess
if they could have only listened to Mr. Teacher they would have been better informed
and could have stayed in their classrooms and followed the open-minded and well-rounded
curriculum he teaches and not get involved with any nasty political stuff. We don’t want
our students thinking too critically about what’s going on in the world or, heaven forbid,
taking action! After all, everyone knows how ignorant our students are. They could never
be expected to understand or oppose the bombing of innocent people, torturing people, giving up Habeas Corpus, opposing evolution, denying global warming, letting thousands of people suffer needlesslly after Katrina–Our students could never understand these things
well as Mr. Oakland High teacher, much less stand up and by standing begin to grasp
how possibly to change things. No, we learn only by following the curriculum–and,
gee, what is ‘expect success’ really all about and what is the Broad foundation. Oh well,
more of my rhetoric and secret agenda. Everything is so fine at Oakland High and in
the world. Imagine, kids taking up political ideas. I guess I’m just a brainwasher,
contrary to our Mr. Okland High teacher. By the way, is there some reason you won’t
“go public?” You seem like such a superior guy who knows what’s best for our students>
You’d think you’d want to proclaim it proudly… Larry Felson

By: MR. Oakland High Teacher

MR. Oakland High Teacher — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:36:05 +0000

As usual, the mentioned teacher and a few other idealouges on the staff are jumping on the most recent bandwagon. Last year and the year before it was world can’t wait, students were walking the halls, oblivous to what they were ‘walking out’ for.

The case of the so-called ‘Jena 6′ is complex and intriguing. I have little sympathy though for a student who attacked another student and continued to do so while this student was unconscious. You can bet that if it were six white students who jumped a black kid, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and everyone else would be screaming for their heads, calling it attempted murder. The attempted murder charge may have been excessive, but then again, so is kicking someone in the head while they are unconscious.

If the teachers at Oakland High who organize these laughable protests (and yes it is laughable when the student calls the arrest of someone who willfully commited assault ‘racist.’ To be sure it’s the charges brought against the student that are the concern) were really concerned with empowering our youth, they might spend a little time actually teaching curriculum, rather than using their classrooms as public forums to spew their hollow and one-sided political agendas. Don’t believe me? why is a world language teacher showing farenheit 911 this week?

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