Comments on: Are there any grown-ups left in Seattle?

By: doppelganglander

doppelganglander — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:29:21 +0000

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.

By: CrazyFool

CrazyFool — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:17:33 +0000

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.

By: EdDantes

EdDantes — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:58:56 +0000

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.

By: jbirish

jbirish — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:43:03 +0000

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!

By: Just A Grunt

Just A Grunt — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:06:24 +0000

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

By: whm3113

whm3113 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:41:15 +0000

Another case against tenure for public school teachers. Who gets to keep their jobs when they interrupt a board meeting?

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Thunder_Run — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:21:02 +0000

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By: Tantor

Tantor — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:05:01 +0000

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.

By: DR1579

DR1579 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:55:39 +0000

Perhaps a better question would be “Are there any grown-ups left … on the left?

By: rightsmight

rightsmight — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:17:30 +0000

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..

By: bipartisancomplainer

bipartisancomplainer — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:56:20 +0000

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.

By: TMoney

TMoney — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:41:48 +0000

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?

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:26:41 +0000

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.

By: graysonret

graysonret — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:11:07 +0000

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.

By: valkyrie

valkyrie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:04:41 +0000

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.