Reply #70: This is a response?

[haroldspanner]

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/principal-anti-obama-facebook-group-joke

Shouldn't that have read, "Educator asks for President's death; thinks its a joke."

I'll fight for anyone's First Amendment right, but a school administration that condones and teaches hate?

1) This administration's first response is to pass it off? Shouldn't that first response have been, "We take every situation that involves your children with the utmost of concern and will certainly be looking deeper into this."

2) Do you really want a principal and an administration that thinks its okay to express her political concerns through asking for the death of a man? Would she and her administration like to explain to a man's children why its funny and not offensive that she's asked God to kill their father?

3) Where is oversight in our local education system? Where are the check and balances? What kind of old-boy network is going on in this place that they protect supporters of hate and point fingers at people who question such a system?

4) Where are the parents? What is their opinion? Is this the kind of attitudes the local tax-payers want in charge of teaching their children? I half wish I lived in their district, and then again I feel lucky I don't.

5) Why is this journalist being led around by the nose instead of asking these kinds of questions? Isn't it the press's responsibility to hold our public institutions accountable? "Hi, administration? Do you think its okay for one of your educators to ask for the death of another person publicly? Its just a joke? Oh, okay, thanks for your time."

6) The most telling bit in all of this is that as far as we can tell from the article, there is zero remorse on the part of this person. She really thinks asking for someone to die is just a joke. I have no love for Gordon Brown, but look at how he handled calling someone a bigot. Now look at the principal's reaction again. Speaks volumes.