STRONG Response from a Teacher

Texas Governor Rick Perry is apparently unfamiliar with the bill he signed into Texas law in 2003 mandating a "minute of silence" each morning during which "students may pray". Three classroom parties are permitted per year: Christmas, Easter, and the End of the Year. Let's see... concern over who is fighting for our country and protecting freedom around the globe, or lies about children's classroom Christmas parties? Poor Rick Perry. He just doesn't get it.

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[junior2173]

Thank you so much for this, from one teacher(albeit college) to another. Just wondering if you have received any backlash for this at school. Or do your coworkers and administration support you?

[jgrizzelle]

@junior2173 I have actually received lots of support from my faculty and principal... and I work in an elementary school that is FULL of Republicans. But, they think it is neat that I was able to get my message out there.

[jgrizzelle]

@united101usa Why are you rambling on about the homosexual agenda on my page? I simply pointed out that the governor did not correctly state the facts as they relate to the laws governing our public schools and students' rights to express their faith. Go spread your hateful commentary somewhere else. Thank you.

[Chorlomis]

You are a hero Joshua

[xephyr1000]

@united101usa Are your seriously this vapid and emotionally stunted?

[xephyr1000]

Right on Joshua. I admire a great teacher of our next generation and you appear to be one. You make me glad to know that such teachers as you still exist, even in the worst of governing situations.

[JonALewis]

@wwathisthen So if 12 years is all it takes to "thoroughly oudate the content of a message", I shudder to imagine what you might be teaching our kids based on your opinion of "oudated messages" in, say the Bible, or maybe our founding documents, something you might have heard about called the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, etc.???

[JonALewis]

@wwathisthen "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they

do not want to hear."-- George Orwell

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits

the horizon."-- Thomas Paine

[JonALewis]

@wwathisthen Indeed, why should you trust anything anyone has to say? "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -- Buddha So are you still blind to what's going on? Look, I'm wanting you to make a consideration based on the issues, but you prefer to make it about me--so you feel okay about ignoring the issues. Are you this versed at distracting your students too?

[wwathisthen]

@JonALewis No, because you misrepresent a 12-year-old book that over those 12 years has only achieved minor success as a "recent best-seller". I know it's difficult, but when you tell lies you need to remember them. Having seen that that's the level of honesty you're bringing to the discussion, why should I take you seriously or trust anything you have to say? As for the content of the message -- it's a 12 year old book. Whatever it may have had to say is thoroughly outdated.

[JonALewis]

@wwathisthen Oh indeed, so because we have a difference of opinion that then makes me dishonest!? So whatever I have to offer now becomes of no consequence? Are you sure you're not the one being dishonest? I mean, you must believe that you yourself are unbiased in your evaluation of information and that you're making aware, awake and informed opinions ... right? How do you convince yourself of this when even now you're shutting out information with the flimsiest of excuses?

[MrMishima12]

@wwathisthen

Keep stabbing in the dark. Grizzele made a political statement, and it was a strong one. All I am requesting is an intelligent response to a challenge. He is arrogant if he thinks he can put up scathing and fallacious remarks about a candidate and not expect a response.

All I seek is a response, and it will be in the open for everyone to see. Do I need to tell you what kind of a person refuses to respond?

[wwathisthen]

@JonALewis I am dismissing the message because the person delivering it has shown himself to be dishonest, and at that point it's a waste of my time to listen any further.