Chris Christie blames schools for not stopping student walkout protests directed at him

[brentspeak]

What exactly did Christie have in mind to prevent students from protesting -- barricade school buildings' exits? Post armed guards outside classrooms? Have K-9 units patrol hallways?

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/nj_gov_chris_christie_criticiz.html

Gov. Chris Christie criticizes N.J. schools for not stopping student walkouts
By Lisa Fleisher/Statehouse Bureau
April 28, 2010, 9:55PM


TRENTON -- In his first public comments since a massive student walk-out, Gov. Chris Christie today criticized administrators for not stopping protests during the school day and said he believed the teachers unions were behind the demonstrations.

"Most parents would think that the principals, the superintendents and others should be exercising control over that," he said. "The schools did a lousy job in really permitting all these students to walk out in the middle of the school day. Their parents send them there not to protest. They send them there to learn. And I have no problem with students protesting. They have absolutely every right to exercise their first amendment rights. But they should exercise their first amendment rights either before school or right after school."

Christie said the students' parents -- and, perhaps, students who could vote -- "spoke very loudly and very clearly" when they rejected 58 percent of school budgets last week. On Tuesday, thousands of students walked out of their classrooms to protest the nearly $820 million in cuts to total state spending on education.

The Republican governor questioned why students were blaming the state instead of asking teachers about refusals to take wage freezes and other give-backs he said would have saved jobs. Christie, who has declared victory in a fight with the state's largest teachers union over the handling of school budget cuts, made the comments to reporters today after he toured a factory in Paterson.

[monmouth]

1. Will the athletic programs be cancelled also?...n/t

[ck4829]

2. Quick! Call Whine-1-1!

"It's other people's fault that people are expressing anger at me!"

[DainBramaged]

3. I mentioned this the other day, these people are the lowest form or scum, period

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8230402&mesg_id=8230634

[NJmaverick]

5. I fear you are insulting scum

[DainBramaged]

8. Yes, I apologize for insulting scum

he is a lower form of life than scum, and NJ will pay for electing this idiot. Never again will a Republican in NJ be elected as Governor after this fuck leaves office.

[NJmaverick]

4. Chris Christie is the George Bush of governors only with a DICK Cheney personality

The state needs to start a recall campaign.

[Bitwit1234]

6. So teachers should take wage cuts while

he gives the richest people in the state those that make over $400,000 a tax cut. Which amounted to the revenue they would have received, and which he cut from the school budgets the $850 million. So who in the hell does he think he is fooling. Not the teachers Unions which he is trying to get rid of. He said before he was elected he was going to break the unions.

Just a typical lying butt republican giving to the rich and taking from the poor and middle class. What's new. Think he'll get a second term.Think he will even last the first term.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. What an ass!!

What does he think teachers could have done to prevent the walkouts???

[Angry Dragon]

9. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TEACHING MY CHILDREN??

I send them to school to learn that the earth is only 6000 years old, that everybody is a Nazi except me, the bible holds all the information that anyone needs. My children are corrupted because you have taught them to think on their own, HOW DARE YOU!! You need to teach my children that the only good people in the world are white, republican, that corporations are the soul of this country, that god created this country to protect the whites, and every CEO is worth the millions they are paid because they are doing god's work.

How dare you to try to teach my children how to think on their own, to try to understand the world around them, to question the lies that they are taught by politicians and the talking heads.

If I wanted my children to learn garbage I will teach them myself.

Signed,
Mr and Mrs Bigot Asshole

[Bill McBlueState]

10. "Their parents send them there not to protest. They send them there to learn."

False.

My daughter's still little, but when I send her to school in a few years, I will be sending her not just to learn but also to protest injustice when she sees it.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. If you learn enough, you're bound to start protesting.

Catch-22.

[gratuitous]

11. If only those greedy teachers would work for free

There wouldn't be a school budget crisis. And it just isn't fair to ask the state's biggest winners (financially speaking) to part with any of the money they earned/stole fair and square to support the system that bestowed those riches. So, it's up to the teachers and the poor to bite the bullet, tighten their belts, and give up what little they have so that the unavoidable damage isn't quite so great.

[tmyers09]

12. But they should exercise their first amendment rights either before school or right after school."

LOL! Good to know that if you're a student, the minute you walk into a building, you're rights are forfeited. Dickhead.