True North

Remember - when the principle at Forest Lake High School cancelled the Vets for Freedom assembly, he claimed the event (which had reportedly agreed to eschew politics), was “too political”.

Well, good heavens - we wouldn’t want politics in our schools, would we?
P-Short, writing at TvM and True North, notes:

Back in 2004, Patty Wetterling held her campaign kickoff announcement at a public school during the school day.  I do not recall complaints from liberals.  I do seem to recall, though my memory could be faulty, the school’s logo prominently featured on the podium or perhaps behind the candidate.

Of course, if you’ve ever had kids in the schools (and not just public ones!), you know the drill; the kids are endlessly drilled in the PC interpretations of Global Warming, the War on Terror, social issues - pretty much everything.  They bus kids to the capitol, to serve as captive picketers for Education Minnesota’s various legislative pushes, at events planned on school time, and that use school functions to recruit parents to help use their kids as political props!

And the Saint Paul Public Schools - they’d never stoop to partisan politics to pander to the politically powerful.  Would they?  (Yes, I know - naming schools after public figures is nothing new.  But there’s a level of reverence for the “Wellstone Legacy” involved at the school, and in the SPPS, that takes it a few notches beyond, say “Roosevelt Elementary”, my elementary mater).

For the record, I honestly don’t care if school present kids with all kinds of politics - indeed, they might learn to be better citizens.

But Flake High’s capitulation had nothing to do with poltics; by all appearances, it was about the “threat” of the wrong kind of politics.

Cross-posted at Shot in the Dark. Comments welcome.