Lincoln.
"that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
Knowledge held in common. Not the
political opinion of SD 60 of the DFL party.
Mr. Miller, examine the quotes and descriptions attributed above to your
scholarly heroes. The words can easily be used to discredit your view that any
child in the Minneapolis School District who opposes the war is being led
astray. It would seem that your cultural icons REQUIRE a critical eye on
warfare and state power and unbridled authority. It seems that according to
criteria you have selected, our children are learning well -- probably
because they are being taught well.
I am immensely proud of the them.
I'd hire one of them in a minute.
By the way, my ancestors homesteaded in the
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg area and I grew up in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
area. A rural education is no guarantee of lock-step homogeneity. I am a
living example of that.
Keith Nybakke
Nokomis East
Minneapolis
(CM)
Fellow list members;
Here is a good case study on bad arguments and failing to play by the
rules.
1. Use of the persons name, and questioning their ability to reason. My
critics construed my mention of our historical giants as a support of
war. Re-read the post. I advised studying our giants not peace
studies of S. Mpls.
BTW- My favorite president of all time,Lincoln, was
the greatest warmonger in presidential history. By his orders one of
every six able body men age 17-35 in this country died. Let that figure
sink in. He also suspended the writ of habeas corpus. Using
Lincoln to defend the peace movement is like a fish without a bicycle.
2. My whole point of posting on this issue, is to question MPS policy of
using taxpayer money and time to fund political operations and using
impressionable kids to do it.
3. My critics keep trying to label my thinking as controlling what kids
do. Not true. Stick to knowledge building in the school.
Keep the protesting out side the school and after school hours.
4. Each day MPS allows teachers/students to pass up the quest of
knowledge for the political activism of the streets is another day when
legislators ALL across the state wonder why MPS gets to spend so much of
the STATEs money. This lowers the credibility of the public
school. Back in the 80's there was a gag going around. Patterned after
the Navy recruitment adds. Minneapolis Public Schools: It's a cause, not
an education.
5. For all those parents who are so proud of their kids protesting
during school hours. What if the pro-war folks were organizing
in your child's school?
Wouldn't you be happier if there was no
politics in the schools? Be honest.
Craig Miller
Not lucky enough to Graduate from the Brooten Belgrade Elrosa
System.
But Lucky enough to Have a father Class of 1950 Brooten High
Lucky enough to have a mother who did K-8 in a one room school house
in Padua and then graduated from
Brooten High 1954
Living in Rogers
