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Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Los Angeles Schools Help Kids Attend Anti-Bush Rally

Here is the press release from right-wingnut’s World Ahead Publishing

BREAKING NEWS: Public school officials bus students from L.A. high schools to join anti-Bush rally. Kid’s author decries educators’ liberal bias.

LOS ANGELES (November 3, 2005) — Public schools have long been criticized for bringing left-wing politics into the classroom, but yesterday teachers in Los Angeles high schools took their students out of their classrooms to participate in a left-wing political rally!

Ten high schools in the Los Angeles area bused over 800 students to participate in a large anti-George Bush rally organized by a group called “The World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime.” Teachers, administrators, and campus security all defended the decision, saying it gave them a chance to supervise students who would be protesting anyway, but children’s author Katharine DeBrecht decried the decision as an example of educators advancing a liberal political agenda.

DeBrecht — the author of the smash hit illustrated book “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed” (Kids Ahead; hardcover $15.95; ISBN 0976726904) — said the decision by Los Angeles school officials was tantamount to encouraging kids to join Democratic causes: “It is reprehensible that public school teachers and administrators would actually encourage students to leave the classroom to attend a Bush-bashing event! Not only are these educators ignoring their duty to teach our children, but apparently they care much more about turning them into props for their political causes.”

I have a strong feeling this is a totally made up story by Katharine DeBrecht the author of “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!. All the reports seem tto indicate that across the country school systems worked hard to intimidate students from walking out of school on November 2nd, many declaring ‘intruder alerts” and locking the school down.

Reading the comments on one right wing blog that carried the story are hilarious though, here are some of my favorites:

It’s the liberal media and the liberal school officials that want to destroy this country. I wonder if you had a choice to go or not?

Oh this is just over the line, these teachers and administrators that allowed this to happen should be fired immediately. A teacher brings a cross to school and the liberals practically start climbing walls. But oh wait, it’s ok to force your sickening political ideology on children. Double standard? Of course.

And what kinda crap is this. Children need to be kept in class and taught history, math, english, etc… not be sent out to protest things they don’t even understand since their only source of information is Saturday Night Live.

And finally:

I wonder if our lefty friends would support, say, busing students to a pro troops ralley??

Of course what we did last Wednesday was Pro-Troops - I think it’s time we start asking these people why they hate the troops so much that they let 2,044 die and over 15,000 come home permanently disabled.

- Will