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December 16, 2008
Adventures in Public Education
From 10-year-old Jared Harrington's adventures in public education:
Jared was discussing the recent spring turkey hunting season with a classmate when [teacher Kathleen] Backus interrupted the conversation, insisting that there be no talk of "killing" in her classroom.
His mom describes what happens when Jared tried talking about hunting with a friend during free period snack time:
Jared's teacher covered her ears, trying to block the conversation, and singing "la la la la." When asked by another school employee about her odd behavior, the teacher claimed she did not want to hear about the boys and their "killing."
When his dad tried to talk to the teacher, Backus screeched:
I went hiking this weekend and saw a moose and a bear, and I will never tell you where they are because you might kill them.
Apparently Backus piled massive amounts of homework on Jared as punishment for oppressing the animals. His folks have wisely opted for home schooling.

On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 16, 2008 7:56 AM
Comments
Here is a nice young boy who is spending quality time with his father (and probably other positive male role models in his life...grandfather, uncles,) and building good, strong bonds with these positive male role models, and he is getting mocked for it by a teacher.
Some of my male students don't even have a positive male role model in their lives. They spend their weekends sitting around, walking the streets, smoking pot, drinking liquor, listening to offensive, sexually and violently charged music/noise, doing nothing constructive, causing trouble, etc...
What a shame.
Posted by: Andrea at December 16, 2008 8:06 AM
wonder if this goofball has any idea how many sperm had to die so she could live...
Posted by: nanc at December 16, 2008 8:14 AM
I bet she doesn't think twice about killing when she's attending a pro-choice rally, or voting for Bill Ayers' pal.
Perhaps someone should tell her how many evil carbon dioxide molecules her beloved animals emit and she might change her tune (or spontaneously combust).
Posted by: antipinko at December 16, 2008 8:29 AM
The "pussification" of our young lads continues
Posted by: JamesJ at December 16, 2008 8:43 AM
The bear should have eaten her.
Posted by: Karin at December 16, 2008 9:04 AM
Isn't it comforting to see what mature, well-balanced and knowledgable teachers are overseeing our kids in the schools? Between the fragmentation of the family unit and the Leftist/Feminist ruination of the public schools, our kids are paying a terrible price.
The contrast of these kinds of "post-modern" dysfunctional N.E.A. idiots like Kathleen Backus with the fine (for the most part) teachers I grew up under in the 50s and 60s is enough to make one cry. No offense meant to Andrea, as I do know that there are still some genuine teachers out there- and is she ever right about the shortage of good male role models for boys now!
Posted by: Toa at December 16, 2008 9:06 AM
But if Jared had "come out" as transgendered and wanted to talk about his desire to wear pretty dresses and long stockings to school, Kathleen Backus would have cheered him.
Moonbats celebrate dysfunction and vilify goodness and normalcy.
Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2008 9:36 AM
I find it strange that libs took capital punishment and prayer out of school yet they can still get away with verbal abuse and imposing their politics on the kids. No wonder our youth of today is crazy.......I'll bet that dimwit has steaks for dinner and chicken for lunch. BITCH!
Posted by: Watching at December 16, 2008 9:38 AM
Capital punishment in school??
Whoa! Watching - ROUGH School!!!
:-)
(I know, I know - you meant Corporal - I just couldn't pass that one up!)
I was 10 when I got my first shotgun (a 410). I was quite proud when I put my first meal on the table for the family - quail and dove. Not only did it give me a sence of contribution, it was tasty, too!
Posted by: Jimbo at December 16, 2008 9:59 AM
This woman needs therapy, and fast...
Posted by: Dave M at December 16, 2008 10:17 AM
There is a relationship between the ideas of global warming and bad teachers. The one is the result of the other and it is being perpetuated.
In the end, this may be the most important thing we can do--more important than voting, more important than just about anything except maybe praying. Every teacher needs to be challenged by every parent who cares at all about their child. Every school board meeting needs to be swamped with parents. Every school board election needs to be examined and every candidate vetted for their views and biases. Every rule and edict by the superintendant needs to be considered and challenged every time.
If parents showed that education was important and what was being taught mattered, we would have a true revolution. The teacher's unions must be stamped out and fought at every turn. Any state representative or senator much less governor or judge should be examined first for their views on education. And any taint of dogmatic hatred of truth with respect to global warming, evironmentalism, recycling, animal rights, or unearned respect should cause rejection regardless of party.
Why would anybody have a child and then not care how or what they were being taught?
Posted by: SnowSnake at December 16, 2008 10:37 AM
Yea......That's what I meant Jimbo.
I remember dropping my first deer. Had meat for months. All kinds of sausages, jerky, and steaks!
YUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
By the way I live in Memphis TN. We come in second in the country for violent crime..Not proud. Bring back the paddles and daily prayers around here and calm these animals down I SAY!!
Posted by: Watching at December 16, 2008 10:39 AM
too bad they didn't take her to court for abuse of their son. It would have been nice to see her loose her job over this kind of crap. This person has no business in a classroom
Posted by: JD at December 16, 2008 10:43 AM
Too late you silly cow...
I got that bear and Governor Palin shot the moose.
Bwa-ha-ha-haaaaa! [very tasty when prepared correctly, mmmmmm yum yum]
</sarc>
Posted by: chuck in st paul at December 16, 2008 11:34 AM
"But he 'executed' a turkey!" - NYT
Posted by: forest at December 16, 2008 11:36 AM
I wonder how many times she watched her DVD of BAMBI,OPEN SEASON,THE BEAR,BROTHER BEAR while sniffing funny flour up her nose with a soda straw? Shows what happens when these granola munching tree hugger hippie freaks have become so disneyfied
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 16, 2008 12:19 PM
I take offense with that picture. Chimps are awesome animals, probably my favorite animals, it is an insult to them to compare that shrieking she- hag teacher to them (Especially considering that most chimpanzees are probably her intellectual superiors, and could teach her class better than her).
My mother is a second grade teacher, and she regularly expresses how sick she is getting over the rise of liberalism in schools. She even quit her teachers' union last year because she had gotten so sick of the liberal bias in it.
Posted by: Adam at December 16, 2008 1:27 PM
Why should they make their child leave because of another child........ I take it up directly with my son's teachers who think they are above teaching.......
Posted by: Jen at December 16, 2008 6:01 PM
The jokes on her, I already found the moose and the bear. They were delicious.
Posted by: Frank White at December 16, 2008 7:36 PM
"School Principal Thomas Martin said he is confident the administration and the school board "can reach a reasonable understanding" among the parties involved in the matter.
"It's not a huge issue," Martin said in an interview. "Marty is a good kid and Kathleen is a good teacher. The focus is on the kid. We want to try to meet his needs. Kathy cares a great deal about kids. She's troubled a great deal about this."
Martin said the issue is neither "black and white or right and wrong. It's more complicated than that. It's brushing up against a number of things that are important to a lot of people and issues relating to the classroom. Emotions start to feed into it when people's belief systems come into play," he said."
Typical response from a principal bereft of any sort of backbone whatsoever. There are so many like this now...
It's perfectly clear whose rights were infringed upon here, yet he decides to consider Ms. Moonbat's behavior justifiable? Wimp.
Posted by: cerulean1 at December 16, 2008 9:23 PM
SPOTTED OWLS TASTE LIKE CHICKEN DOLPHIN TASTES LIKE TUNA but for ol SPURWING PLOVER i prefer a few DELI LEVLES FLOWER LOVING FLIES their suppost to be endangred but they taste okay to me SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 16, 2008 10:19 PM
I bet she doesn't think twice about killing when she's attending a pro-choice rally
Posted by: antipinko at December 16, 2008 8:29 AM
Exactly. Because abortion is a process in which the people involved can pretend they're not killing a living thing.
Oh and the stupidest thing of all about moonbats like these: unless she is a vegetarian, she eats meat that has come from a commercial farm, in which animals are bred for meat and never experience the wild - something that moonbats supposedly care about. There is a lot less "cruelty" inherent in eating a moose brought down with a shotgun in the wild than in buying steak from the supermarket. Unless she's a vegetarian she is, like every liberal, a shrill hypocritical idiot who doesn't even stick to what her OWN principles are supposed to be.
Posted by: mandible claw at December 18, 2008 1:27 AM

