From: Gene McAloon 

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:14:33 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote:

>
>"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
>news:vu3b301nhlc3t25mr99nnjh72pfpte16k1{at}4ax.com...
>> The story is a good example of a principal doing the right thing
>initially...
>
>Nope, it was an example of left-wing nut, just as I said originally.
>
>Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to go dig up the facts and
>report back with your findings. It will be difficult, nay impossible, to
>find in favor of the misguided principal, when schools all across the nation
>allow their entire band, comprised of at least an entire class worths of
>kids, to travel for days long, up to a week, trips to compete with other
>bands in comparison to single students from multiple schools taking a single
>day to play at a state fair - regardless of whether Bush was there, and
>especially so since he was.
>
>The experience of those students on stage with the President of the US far
>exceeds one day of learning about compound fractions or how to put a condom
>on a cucumber - indeed, that principal should have had the whole school
>attend for the day in appreciation that one of their students was selected
>to perform.
>
I must say you are rather good at manufacturing spin. But then spin, as
opposed to facts, is what the world of the radical-right is all about. One
has only to look at Bush to see it in action almost daily.

So, let's get down to the facts. The student in this case was not a member
of her school's band, she is not reported as having requested a day off to
perform in some other band. She simply ditched school to do so. For that
she was punished and rightly so. Your pathetic spin that the principal must
be a liberal
nut because it was Bush who was involved and that is why she punished the
student is not just spin, it is stupid.

The rest of the crap about the students of the whole school being better
off attending a partisan political rally than a day of learning at school
is so far out it confirms yet again that expecting even minimal
intelligence from the radical-right is expecting far too much.

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