From: Gene McAloon 

The story is a good example of a principal doing the right thing initially,
but then caving to pressure from ignorant people who think ditching school
is excusable as long as she is playing in a band serenading Bush.

That you would defend the student's behavior and accuse the principal of being a
left-wing nut certainly suggests you are a radical-right nut.  But then, we
already know you are, don't we?

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:40:44 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote:

>
>"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>news:4035626f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> What I'm saying is that the Secret Service does not reimburse the local
>> communities for the cost of security of a presidential visit.
>
>Since when would any American town begrudge a visit by the president? No
>doubt there are similar costs of security when the Kucinich's and Sharpton's
>of the race visit a town - should the local cops just walk away because
>neither of them have a chance of winning?
>
>Last year a school girl took a day out of class to go see Bush at a state
>fair, or so I thought on my initial read of her principal giving her zeros
>in every class that day, as it turned out she didn't just go to see her
>president, she played an instrument in a band on stage at the event.
>Presumably her principal is some left-wing nut to be punishing a girl for
>participating in a band at a major event with the president present, so I
>wrote the state education commissioner on the girls behalf - hundreds of
>others wrote the paper (IndyStar I think it was) and the following week she
>had her zeros reversed.
>
>This happened right around the time those high school girls from another
>state were beating the shit out their classmates after chug-a-lugging from a
>keg all afternoon - what kind of values was the stupid principal trying to
>invoke in his responsible student via misguided punishment in comparison?
>

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