Much Ado About Nothing
Republicans in Virginia are up in arms over an e-mail from the Virginia Education Association encouraging teachers to wear blue for “Obama Blue Day” and to “register two voters or talk to two people who may be on the fence/or a McCain supporter and sway them to become a Obama supporter.” (Shouldn’t that be “an Obama supporter”?)
According to the Washington Times, the e-mail also states: “There are people out there not yet registered. You teach some of them.”
Jeffrey M. Frederick, chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, was irate. “That is patently wrong and it should be illegal if it not already is,” he said.
Everyone should calm down. Wearing blue on a school day? That’s so subtle a message as to be absolutely worthless. Might as well make it “Obama Shoe Day” and claim support from everyone who wore shoes that day. Will teachers be able to persuade kids to register to vote for Obama when they can’t persuade them to turn in their homework on time?
If kids did things just because their teachers told them to, they all would be able to diagram a sentence, punctuate and capitalize properly, and master long division.
October 2nd, 2008 at 18:30
“If kids did things just because their teachers told them to, they all would be able to diagram a sentence, punctuate and capitalize properly, and master long division.”
If teachers had those skills, their GRE scores might just crack 1000.