New York Teachers Sue Over Campaign Button Ban

AP: The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were violated.

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October 14, 2008 at 8:41 am - Fox News
Dateline: New York, NY
Eileen   October 14th, 2008 - 9:53 am

The school systems are publicly owned and publicly funded. Let me explain this to this socialist/communistic Democratic party member who also calls themselves a teacher…the schools are owned and supported by members of “all” parties…not just yours!

You have no right…as a teacher employed by those taxpayers…to go into a classroom of children of those taxpayers and wear any type of pin and/or clothing or anything else that denotes your bias to one party or another.

You also have an obligation to those taxpayers and their children not to impose your bias (for any party) in any curriculum you are teaching in that class!

If you refuse to follow this direction, you should be replaced. There are plenty, plenty of men/women who are looking for teaching jobs who know how to follow the rules!

Clean it up or get out!

yeah   October 14th, 2008 - 10:21 am

Woah there Eileen. Dial it back a few.

When I was in high school my participation in government teacher registered everyone in the class Republican when they turned 18.

The door swings both ways…

Dave, Tn   October 14th, 2008 - 10:21 am

Nothing corrupts people from the ground up like a union.

beverly   October 14th, 2008 - 10:23 am

oh! i see! its freedom of speech to wear political buttons to school as a teacher..
how about a t shirt with a Bible saying..or a button with a Cross on it? Would that also be considered freedom of speech?

claspur   October 14th, 2008 - 10:37 am

Excuse me while I laff my azz-off for a minute…

Let’s see now….we’re two and a half months away now from The Silly Season, where these same stoopid teachers will be screaming to ban anything related to Christmas?

Go to: “Atlas Shruggs” to look at The Muslim Pride March videos and articles.

FiddleDiddle   October 14th, 2008 - 10:52 am

Think I could get away with a t-shirt that says:

“Barack is a C*nt” in bright green.

Astounded   October 14th, 2008 - 10:54 am

Whan you have ACORN supporting you (or is it the other way around), you can do anything you want.

Read this, and be very afraid (especially the latter part of the article):

http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2008/081013.html

Steve T   October 14th, 2008 - 11:04 am

As an Obama supporter, I don’t think this kind of influence should be brought into the classroom.
School budgets and this opinion swaying brand of politics should stay out of the classroom.

noname   October 14th, 2008 - 11:10 am

yeah:

Eileen is exactly right.

What you experienced in school was wrong, too.

The door shouldn’t swing either way.

Parents who don’t want their kids indoctrinated rightfully object to this partisanship of teachers.

Left/Right, Dem/Rep, whatever. It has no place in public schools… or private schools, for that matter.

Joe Biden   October 14th, 2008 - 11:37 am

What the heck was that union rep saying!? That because union employees haven’t caused any problems before it’s OK to do it now? Nothing but double-talk. The unions always go Democrat ’cause their lobbyists are shoving cash into the Dem’s pockets. Of course they want Obama pushed on the kids! Now, if they made it a policy that only equal numbers of buttons/posters from each party could be displayed, I bet they’d cry foul or drop the whole issue. What a load of crap!

soviet union   October 14th, 2008 - 12:12 pm

Union’s are a good thing, buy the way thank’s for the payroll deduct this payday

youdumbme   October 14th, 2008 - 1:02 pm

There are a lot of good teachers,
but hen there are the rest………..

They seem to forget this is a place of work they are privaledged to be at(it’s easy to see why , a lot act like They are still in school).

Banners and esp political postings etc is wrong in the work place. FREE SPEECH DOES NOT APPLY TO THE WORKPLACE!

If they are so consumed with Obama being the next president then let them forgo their salary , quite and work on his campaingn. If they want to be paid for teaching then shut up and teach what they were hired to teach.

If they do sue – they should be forced to pay back court fees & lawyer fees when they lose as well!

olddog   October 14th, 2008 - 2:01 pm

Yeah, I think you’re full of it. How many 18 year olds are still in high school? I’ve never heard of anyone getting registered to vote in HS, I doubt anyone else has either.

jeepsuper   October 14th, 2008 - 5:43 pm

our job as teachers is to educate, not indoctrinate…educate students on how to find out about the candidates–yes both–and to decide for themselves which they individually choose to support. years past, i brought students to see, in person, b. clinton and b. dole…the students benefit by being able to decide, get this, without even knowing how i was to vote–educate not indoctrinate.

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