| Monday, September 15, 2003 |
17:28 - Censorship: American Style
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~6439~1628985,00.html
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Some countries censor their citizens to prevent them from discussing events and ideas which might make the State look bad. Some countries silence teachers in their schools who might tell their students that their country might be in the wrong.
And here in AmeriKKKa, our public schools deny teachers the right to discuss the most important event in our recent history in such a way as to portray the country as being in the right.
Ritter on Wednesday showed his class of 13- and 14-year-old students a CNN-produced video that included images of Sept. 11 victims leaping from windows. He did not have district approval to show the video, Amole said.
Jeanette Washington, a student curriculum administrator, dropped by Ritter's classroom while he was playing the video "America Remembers," and Ritter later was called out of class to meet with principal Cynde Fischer.
Ritter said he agreed not to show the video again. After a meeting Wednesday afternoon he understood he could answer questions only about Sept. 11, but he went to school Thursday with other anniversary activities planned just in case, he said.
That morning, he said, Fischer told him he must limit his Sept. 11 discussion to the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, and then move to a regular lesson about the foundation of American government.
"I did not feel it was an option for me to explore other Sept. 11 (topics)," he said.
School officials told him they would sit in on the class, and when he protested, they told him he could follow their directions or leave, Ritter said.
When he went downstairs to think about it, he returned and Fischer told him to leave, he said.
He returned for a regular day of work Friday, but administrators asked him to leave again, he said.
Minders. Right here at home. To make sure he doesn't teach his students about the attack on the World Trade Center.
Our future isn't just a Nerf world. It's a Nerf world run by Big Brother.
(Via LGF.)
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