Are there any grown-ups left in Seattle?
As a former resident of the Emerald City, this doesn’t surprise me:
A protest of military recruiting in Seattle Public Schools has shut down tonight’s School Board meeting.
Acting President Darlene Flynn recessed the meeting before she could even take roll because about 30 students marched into the meeting room chanting, “Yo School Board, what’s up? We’re here to say we’ve had enough.”
Some students covered with fake blood collapsed on the floor, then were carried around the room. After the demonstration, the students spoke to the meeting’s attendees in support of a proposed policy they wrote that would require military recruitment to be confined to twice-yearly recruitment fairs.
After more than a half-hour, the board convened with the district’s attorney to discuss its course of action. Board members re-entered the board meeting room, where the students demanded 10 to 15 minutes to address them.
Instead, board member Brita Butler-Wall made a motion to reconvene in a small boardroom. The media — but not the public — were allowed inside while the board continued its business.
KOMO TV has video. So does KING 5.
Yes, the adults in charge allowed the kids to throw their anti-war temper tantrum and chase them out of their meeting room.
You know who those kids grow up to be? The kind of hate-mongers who do things like this and this and this.
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The kids were probably encouraged by teachers. I know that School District only too well…
Maybe even a class project.
These are they same people that claim to support our troops, but ask them how they support our troops and they look at you dumbfounded. No, they are not just words. Cant we just pull all military out of the bay area, and let them fend for themselves?
This stuff makes me ill.
I went to Seattle this past spring to visit my daughter and son-in-law; he is a sub officer attached to a boat there. I wonder if any of those little pukes would appreciate those men, living among them, who go to the depths of the oceans to protect their liberties? Furthermore, son-in-law is a Naval Academy grad; I wonder how many of them would have the brains, character, or fortitude to even be accepted there.
And, as Michelle said, where are the grown-ups? Just who should have been running that meeting anyway?
Glad my kids went to parochial school all the way through.
In general, kids have no respect these days, they’re not taught to respect their elders, or help a little ole’ lady across the street. They swear in front of grownups and seem quite proud of it.
It’s a shame.
Nope. No grown-ups anywhere on the left coast.
You know these are the same kids that did not get a spanking when they threw tantrums at age two, so they think they can do it now. I think that these kids would probably do good with a DI in their faces.
How sad it is to see a once great city fall so swiftly and completely in to the depths of self induced insanity.
The good people of Seattle will have to reap what they sow.
I guess Seattle is gonna follow San Francisco and succeed from the union.
I’m guessing was a teacher’s idea. I’d say ‘extra credit’ but school is out for the summer. Or it could just be that one of the kids mom’s is a Code Pink member.
What makes them think the military would want their spoiled punk arses?
And of course the ‘adults’ gave them the room. In today’s political climate if they had ordered the ‘children’ to sit down and get it under control or get out of the room then the media and the liberals would have had a freaking field day about first amendment rights.
Democrats mantra: Free choice is ok for abortion, but not ok for joining the military.
“Some students covered with fake blood collapsed on the floor, then were carried around the room.” – Well, that’s not the least bit dramatic. They do not like military recruitment, fine, then pull our tax dollars. IMO, money would be better spent elsewhere…
I wonder what needs to be done so that we could jettison Washington State from the USA. Do you think Canada would take them if we paid them enough?
I live on the east side of The People’s RepubliK of Washington and this does not surprise me at all.
The Seattle school district has official policies that only “white people” can be racists.
The “pundits” count Washington as a “blue state” but that is because Seattle and the Pungent Sound area, consisting of 4 out of 39 counties, is so loaded with marxist commie scum and are the majority of population that they actually rule the state.
There has for a long time been a movement for the east half of the state to suceed and I for one am all for it.
Seattle is definitely the San Francisco of the Northwest, and their commie brethern in Portland are right there with them.
The grown ups are there.They are parents, trying to be their children’s best friends. A friend of mine,a grade school art teacher,caught a student stealing. When he explained to the parents what happened,they told him he was wrong,their child does not steal. That was 20 years ago and things are worse now
To stick with the Seattle headline.
See here
and here
and here.
I moved to Washington 3 years ago. I have been disgusted with the activities in Seattle. I was aware of the WTO protests before I moved to the Tri-cities but had no idea how deep the rot had gone.
When I saw this on Fox this afternoon I thought I was going to puke. I would venture a guess it was some stupid teacher or teachers who came up with this “project”. I used to teach and can tell you there are more of these types out there then one would imagine (and is one of the reasons I don’t do it anymore-no respect being another). Well, I really wish that the federal govt. would pull funds from there and from SF as well. I just can’t stand these idiots. I hate their “support the troops” mantra. It’s absolutely disgusting. We had the chance to go to Fort Lewis but we decided we had had enough of the “support the troops crowd” out in HI.
So….they suck down Federal funding in order to spew a non-theistic pile of socialist bile that passes for an education these days, and then protest the only scruple the federal government semi-insists on, that they be allowed to send military recruiters onto government property!?
Every day I thank God and my parents I was home educated.
Wow,
You know someone on the teaching staff had to be behind this, because I doubt these kids know what the school is going to serve for lunch on any given day, much less the actions of military recruiters on campus. Can’t say I’m really surprised given the maturity show by the supposed “adult” anti-war activists in the area
Here is another Seattle incident of guerrilla theater.
Here is the follow-up from the Marine Major.
And this was the response of the school.
Please note this from the letter sent to the parents:
It would be interesting to find out what was said to those faculty advisors and administrators. But you’ll never find out as the union will say that that is a “confidential personnel matter.”
All these whining kids have to do – or in this case, not do – is to not sign up for military service. It’s not complicated.
But I imagine the kids are having fun playing around with this sillyiness. And it’s a way to skip doing homework, one supposes. (If public schools even assign homework anymore, that is…)
I’m anti-war conservative. So if the left want to protest, that is fine. I don’t endorse riots against war though….
I wonder how much these recruiters can take before they handle it. These punks need their butt’s kicked and good. This is what America has ahead for it’s self…land of intellectuals no doubt.
“I’m anti-war conservative.”
ammonrae, is there any war you approve of eg Revolutionary, Civil, WW I, WW II ?
Every day, in every way, this city just embarrasses me more and more.
Would it be ok for them to throw such a tantrum against being indoctrinated with the false religion of evolution?
These kinds of brownshirt tactics make my blood boil. It is the ubiquitous characteristic of the modern era that children masquerade as men and accuse others of the very thing they are doing.
These kids protest the military recruiters because they’re lying. They lie on the ground to represent all our soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The contradiction in that is just too incredible to contemplate. They’re protesting to kick the military off their campus and simultaneous make visual demonstrations about just how much they care about soldiers?
Welcome to the 1984, folks. These kids are the fruits of 18 years of heavy indoctrinated subjectivism.
To answer your question in this entry’s title, Madam Host:
Yes, there are still adults in Seattle. The ketchup-covered young scholars only want them to recruit twice a year.
ThomasChronicles, my sentiments exactly.
There is no shortage of disingenuous soldier “support” amongst the soldier- bashing, anti-military, “patriotic” left.
Come to Seattle. A new type of American city. We believe strongly in Marxism and a green community. We abhor private property, white privilege and most of all those pesky American soldiers. Green(not khaki), Clean & Pristine. That’s Seattle!
The People’s Republics of Seattle, San Francisco, Massachusetts, and Vermont. I sometimes think we were duped into thinking we won the cold war and that Pelosi, Kerry, and the rest of this unsavory lot are actually deep-cover soviet plants who are ahead of schedule in turning the USA into the USSA. For tantalizing evidence of this Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy, check out this WeeklyStandard article about Pelosi’s favorite stalinist and all-time hero.
Perhaps Nanny Nancy would prefer we call her “Comrade Pelosi” instead of “Madam Pelosi”.
I’m not really all that worried about how those kids will turn out, most of them will go on to 4 years of college and participate in more of the same type of thing.
Yet, after decades of the left trying to “help” them see the way via “education,” we’re still roughly a 30/30/40 country, with the 40 being independents. So, basically, 7 of 10 of them will not “see the light” when all is said and done.
That is what happens to people who live in area that gets rain 360 days out of the year. Their brains turn to mold.
And I just saw a pig fly. I wonder who really wrote the proposal. I wouldn’t put it past high school students come up with the idea to storm into a board meeting but I think that if you were to pull back the curtian a bit…
Let a southern boy tell you how to fix this problem with the students. Someone just yell out, “free coffee at Starbucks.” That will clear the room of these kids. Just a thought.
If I’m not mistaken isn’t Seattle the same place where they have introduced the teaching of social math
http://www.socialmath.com/
If all these kids have to complain about are military recruiters, they don’t realize how good their lives are.
#9 Raging Republican wrote….
“I guess Seattle is gonna follow San Francisco and succeed from the union.”
Just a quick clarification… RR, I think you meant to say, “secede” from the union.
As a Southerner, and prior to the days before the South became full of “non-Southerners” and the ensuing PC’ness that they have brought forth with…. all Southern childern were taught 1st, Respect for your elders, and 2nd, manners. These social mores were taught to you at home, school, and church, and thoroughly reinforced with SPANKINGS when youthful foolishness was exhibited. AND, you’d get that SPANKING from ANY Adult in your social realm, with the absolute approval of your parents (heck, you usually got spanked AGAIN by your parents after they were told what you did!!).
Oh, and of course 3rd, History. All Southern children learned about the events in 1860 where some states attempted te secede from the Union; I’m sure y’all know the rest.
I for one, wouldn’t mind to see San Francisco or Seattle secede from the Union (I have been to both cities). And, as for San Francisco, their only apparent “SUCCESS” is to have become the Moonbat Capital of the Universe.
Unfortunately, as long as the so called “adults” in this school district allow students to run the show, more can be expected to follow. As a teacher in the state of Kentucky and one of those whose parents said, “If you get a spanking at school, you will get double at home,” I abhor the liberal stance that so many schools are now taking. And unfortunately, the students cannot be blamed for what the adults in their lives have so freely allowed. I may end up fired, but no child will tell me what to do in my own classroom. Seattle needs to get some backbone, or is it too late?
3steps, tomorrow is the last student day in the Seattle Public Schools, so you just know a teacher was behind it…probably extra credit or automatic “A”.
It seems as silly and ineffective as everything else I’ve seen from Seattle teachers in the past.
Aloha, Alohaguy. Teachers teach. Now, what do you call what these people are doing? Teaching? NOT!
The American soldier fights for what is right: The American soldier fights for those who can’t fight for themselves. The American soldier fights for what is right. But this is a truth that many Americans have forgotten. It’s time to remember the truth, and to share it with our children.
In his autobiography, Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier of World War II, wrote:
“When I was a child, I was told that men were branded by war. Has the brand been put on me? Have years of blood and ruin stripped me of all decency? Of all belief? … Not of all belief. I believe in the force of a hand grenade, the power of artillery, the accuracy of a Garand. I believe in hitting before you get hit, and that dead men do not look noble. … But I also believe in … all the men who stood up against the enemy, taking their beatings without whimper and their triumphs without boasting. The men who went and would go again to hell and back to preserve what our country thinks right and decent.”
The American soldier is noble.
uh…I’m worried.
A Chinese friend of mine who lived through the Cultural Revolution said that, at the time, he and his student friends looked upon the CR as an opportunity to just hang out and have fun at the expense of actually learning or doing any productive work. They could simply hop on a train (without paying) and just say “take me to Beijing” so I can help Chairman Mao. To them, it was just a joy ride on a train they otherwise could not afford to take.
I’m sure these irresponsible kids in Seattle are enjoying their new found power over the adults in their community just as much as the Chinese students did back in Chairman Mao’s time.
their disrespect for our military is astonishing
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Revolutionary, Civil, WW I, WW II
I’m TOO scared to answer Purplepeeep. We need to have the Revolutionary War to create our republic, some libertarians and southern conservatives say the Civil War was not needed, but we still need to free the slaves, thus the creation of the Republican Party. WWI and II maybe? Stay out the World Wars? Maybe send in a rescue team to save as much Hebrew people as possible. Fortify and use military only in defense. I am a little worried with the War on Terrorism because terrorism is a insane thought process; it cannot be attacked with the military. I’m worried about the coming WWIII with Iran. I pray Bush knows what he is doing.
They’ll be ON POST protesting military honors for deceased soldiers on the 26th… we’re supposed to ignore them.
PC military leadership…SUCKS!!!
The Seattle Public School system is a disgrace and has been for the last 20 years. “Are there any adults left in Seattle?” you ask. There are, but they are too busy home-schooling their children to be involved in the local school politics.
When I was their age, I was a radical liberal. Of course, I “knew” everything about the world then, plus gullible and naive. Once I learned how to think, I went to the other side…conservative. I imagine a few kids there will learn too.
Gray:
My dad always said that all kids are liberals until they get their first paycheck.
I ran a grocery store for several years and whenever those 15-16 year old kids got that first paycheck they were almost in tears.
“You mean the government takes this much?” they’d whine.
The shock is even worse when they grow up a little more and get that first full time check. That’s when they finally realize what all the stink has been about and they become Republicans.
Obviously these kids were not raised with the best intentions of turning them into adults, but old kids prone to tantrums.
And…isn’t disrupting a meeting like this prosecutable as a misdemeanor or something?
I’d be curious to know what about the military recruiting they find so offensive, if anything. It would seem obvious a volunteer military needs to recruit and that as a nation, we need a military.
gee…what a surprise here. Liberal, self-loathing taechers indoctrinate their students and they’re stunned when the kids do what the teachers want? I am truly flabbergasted. Boy, these kids must really be against the war and President Bush. They are so wise, wiser then their tender years woyld suggest! Sheesh…I’m going to soak my head now..
Perhaps a better question would be “Are there any grown-ups left … on the left?
My guess is that these kids are being used as hand-puppets in a protest theater being staged by radical adults who can not make their own case on its merits.
And I note that no anti-war protest has ever taken a stand against beheading or car bombings of civilians or jumbo jets flying into skyscrapers.
They are not anti-war. They’re anti-America.
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Another case against tenure for public school teachers. Who gets to keep their jobs when they interrupt a board meeting?
The real dirty little secret behind what fuels the feud between the military and academia is, like most other things, a matter of money. Each person who joins the military is one less that is able to put money into the coffers of colleges and universities. I saw when I was a recruiter in the 90′s. The entire argument is frivilous, just me I had it many times with folks in administration officers on various campuses who would let me on. Whenever I pointed out that soldiers could attend college while serving their country, that the 2 concepts were not mutually exclusive, I normally got some sort of mumbled response. A little more prodding and the answer would get around to the fact that that particular was not benefitting financially because I was taking a person away from them. They aren’t interested so much in somebody going to college as they are in the person attending their school.
A note to recruiters. You sell college to the parents not the person interested joining. A person who expresses a desire to serve in the military is normally motivated by something more then continuing education, another concept completely foreign to the academic world.
/rant off
We moved here from Calif 30 years ago thinking it was a better place to live and raise children. We had a wonderful place in the country. Over the last few years we noticed the moonbats taking over. We can’t get a conservative elected in this state because Seattle overpowers the whole state! Voter fraud has been detected etc. It’s as if the state, east of the Cascades is in another country. They have no say in any statewide elections and any county outside of King County may as well not vote! We’re getting out of here as soon as we can. Another Socialist enclave where the folks are frowned upon!
I just find it ironic that these people’s right to free speech is protected by the governement they oppose. They would never have such free speech without the country they are trying to rip apart.
Hey – I live in Washington and work in Seattle. Seattle is like that – a colony of moonbatistan (San Francisco).
However not everyone in Washington State is a moonbat.
And Yes, I have no doubt that this was a class project put on by the WEA – using money they extorted from the teachers.
I say pull federal funding from the school district and the illegal-alien sanctuary city. Seattle wants tons of federal funds for a light rail system (nobody will use) and replacement of the viaduct along the waterfront but doesn’t want to enforce Federal laws.
If a student attended a Board of Education meeting and presented an articulate, well-reasoned, polite argument during public comment time, I would have no problem at all, whether I agree with his/her opinion or not. However, these kids are utterly incapable of articulate, well-reasoned, polite argument, so they resort to throwing a public temper tantrum. I’m sure they’ll grow up to be good little collectivists in Birkenstocks and orange stocking caps.