‘Crash the Tea Party’ tech teacher on paid leave
April 29, 2010 by Claire KnightPosted in: Free Speech
Of course teachers are entitled to their own political views. But this one has been accused of blogging at school to promote his own agenda — on the taxpayers’ dime.
Jason Levin, a teacher at Conestoga Middle School in Oregon, created a high-profile controversy with his “Crash the Tea Party” Internet campaign.
Levin’s goal, according to his now-shut down blog, was to “dismantle and demolish the Tea Party … by infiltrating the Tea Party itself.”
Although his Web site specifically denounced violence against the Tea Party, it fanned political flames by calling party members “racists, homophobes and morons.”
According to reports, one post allegedly read: “[A]sk people at the rally to sign a petition renouncing socialism. See just how much info you can get from these folks (name, address, DOB, Social Security #). The more data we can mines (sic) from the Tea Partiers, the more mayhem we can cause with it!!!!”
As a result, Beaverton School officials say the district has received thousands of outraged e-mails and phone calls from people across the country.
Levin has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of separate investigations conducted by the Beaverton School District and Oregon’s Teacher Standards & Practices Commission.
Investigators are trying to determine whether Levin:
- led the anti-Tea Party effort on taxpayer funded time
- promoted identity theft against Tea Party members, and
- misused school property.
The Tea Party’s reaction
The group wants the school district to:
- apologize for failing to properly supervise its employee
- issue a written pledge to investigate how Levin’s site may have influenced his students, and
- send a written reminder to staff, reiterating the district’s policy that prohibits teacher engagement in political activity during school hours or using school resources.
The Tea Party also thinks Levin should not be terminated — as long as he successfully completes anger management and sensitivity classes.
Obviously, how this unfolds will depend on the outcome of the investigations. We’ll keep you posted.
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April 30th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
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April 30th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I think it is sad that people think they should cram what they like down the throats of everyone else! Liberals and Conservatives need to learn that if they want to live their lives a certain way, then by all means, live it that way. Don’t expect me the follow you. For all the times that those on the left promote tolerance and reject the imposition of morality on them, they can certainly be intolerant and have no problems imposing their morality on everyone else.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
That the Loony Left emplpys despicable tactics such as this is not news.
That they accuse the gentle Tea Party members of violence, racism, inappropriate forms of protest, intransigence, illiteracy, illegitimacy, illogic, being funded by “powerful interests,” being extreme, of employing (the least objectionae) Alinsky tactics is a pure case of hypocrisy based on “projection.”
What really offends them (besides the realization they are dead wrong) is the fact that the Tea Party is engaged in political protest and frank discussion (albeit nowhere nearly as violently) that were once the sole province of the radicals.
Now that the barbarians (temporarily) have grabbed the keys and are looting the castle, they are shocked that the others doth protest, even if in a far more civilized fashion than the Bolshevik/Che/Mao-type extremists previously behaved.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Amen Robb. The school is no place to teach intolerance or aggression to people with whom we do not agree. Both sides need to learn to express their ideas in a conversational fashion with respect and boundries. Somewhere along the line we stopped teaching that, at home and in the classroom.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
I’m a tea party supporter.
That said, in the interest of fairness I don’t think this guy should lose his job. After all, if he were blogging in support of the tea party we would be upset if he was fired.
I do think it is funny/ironic that somebody was clever enough to recommend anger management and sensitivity training. Ha! That is precious and has to be somebody’s idea of a sweet joke as these have been a favorite tool of the left for years!
That is almost as funny as asking that he be required to pass a U.S. citizenship test and take a gun safety class! Both would be painful for him I’m sure.
April 30th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
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April 30th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
So now this guy is on paid leave. Is this so he can still get paid and spend all day working on his “Crash the Tea Party” Internet campaign? Paid leave for teachers in trouble is just another symptom of the larger problems facing these United States. I can only imagine what the Founding Fathers would say about this. I can only imagine what this “teacher” was “teaching” his students.
April 30th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
give this guy a double dose of sensitivity classes
April 30th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Is this an example of how the angry speech of the anti-Tea Party voices can lead poorly balanced people to extreme measures? What if an even more imbalanced person heard that anti-Tea Party hate-speech and reacted by making threats against people like Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or maybe beating up a Tea Partier at some Townhall Meeting somewhere? What if this kind of hate-speech led some unbalanced young man to hack into someone like Sara Palin’s email and post her information on line?
April 30th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Promoting “See just how much info you can get from these folks (name, address, DOB, Social Security #). The more data we can mines (sic) from the Tea Partiers, the more mayhem we can cause with it!!!!”
The above conduct is very troubling (regardless of one’s opinion on the Tea Party) and warrants termination. My surmise is that the “mined” information might have been used to harass the Tea Party members and/or engage in politics of personal destruction. Tactic on many on the Left- if you can’t win the argument on facts and logic, just threaten or smear those with opposing views into silence.
April 30th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
“dismantle and demolish the Tea Party … by infiltrating the Tea Party itself.”
Good idea, these idiots are a greater threat to America than the Taliban and too stupid to realize it.
“…party members “racists, homophobes and morons.”
Truer words were never spoken. They can’t handle the truth.
April 30th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
_paid_ leave? How does that work? The school district is basically saying “we can’t trust you to do your real work, but that’s OK, spend some time on this other stuff”.
He should either be on unpaid leave (his actions resulted in the investigation, so he’s responsible for that), or his management should do what _they’re_ paid for and keep an eye on his work while the investigation goes on.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Not sure the school system is responsible for “supervising” an employee who is involved in politics outside of the classroom. Infiltrating seems unnecessary against this group, as they are making it quite clear what they are all about and they are not hiding their faces. Let them march and protest and act like fools in front of cameras…it’s free speech and a teacher should understand that. While the teacher’s tactics are sneaky, they don’t seem illegal to me…not sure why he’s suspended at all.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Instead of making a case for his political view he intends to disrupt others’ freedom of speech.
If he has so much energy and believes that his views are right then he should be getting his voice heard about what matters to him as well as finding others to join him. Intentionally disrupting others activities is nothing more than gang-land tactics and is brutish.
If he used public resources then he should be made to compensate for that usage. I don’t think gathering around the school board with fire brands and pitchforks is something we need in our public discourse. Tell him to stop and to compensate.
Perhaps he may wish to actually understand the ideological underpinnings behind the tea partyers before whipping out the “hate” card, but I doubt it. It is uncommon for that tactic to be motivated by ideological disagreement yet rather by irrational emotionalism supplanting cognitive thought.
The thing about the tea party I have noticed is it not organized, at least not in a top-down, hierarchical fashion though wherever there are a group of people somebody will come along and try to capitalize on it for their own agenda. So it is a matter of time before some politician comes along and dupes the mindless into organized action for his or her purposes.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
“Tactic of many on the Left AND ON THE RIGHT- if you can’t win the argument on facts and logic, just threaten or smear those with opposing views into silence.”
April 30th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
School teachers in the district in which I live ROUTINELY get political ads encouraging them to vote for the “right” education candidate (the wnat who wants to double or triple education funding), to campaign for him or her, and to send money–all against state regulations, but it hasn’t mattered. What angers educrats is when teachers chose to go against “approved” education candidates. This teacher should be fired, as should all those adminstrators who try to influence campaigns. When that happens, schools will go back to being neutral on campaigns. Of course that will never happen.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Everyone has the right to form a peaceful protest. No one said anything when that lady chained herself to the fence in Washington. When they asked president Bush if he wanted her removed he said no, everyone has the right to protest. Leave her alone. It is the ignorant and people that feel their views are the only way. Not what this country is built on. Ask a 6th or 7th grader these days who were our founding fathers. Who wrote the constitution? Bet they cannot answer. They seem to have taken all out of the history books. Now they have teachers telling our kids that protesting is wrong? That protesters are anti gay, anti religion? Fire him. That is what I say. Teachers and movie stars do not belong in the public eye voicing their political views. It is too easy for these folks to brainwash our children and young adults. They should remain neutral until they are in their “own” homes. Not cramming their views down our kids throats. Colleges should follow this rule also. Professors are the worst. I know this from my college years. Say anything to stop them and you get slammed with a bad grade. To bad this society has come to this.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Does the school have a policy relating to appropriate use of school technology? Did he violate the policy?
Those are the questions that need answers. I have no problem with tea partiers or their opponents. Both have a right to express their opinions, but they should do it on their own time, with their own equipment and network connection.
Whichever side of the political issue we take I hope everyone tones it down. It is only a matter of time until someone ODs on the fiery rhetoric and turns violent. Is there no room for civility in today’s world?
April 30th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I am so tired of people trying to push their own stupid political views on everyone else. He did this on the Colleges dime. He obviously has forgotten his main objective which is to teach. Fire him!
April 30th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
@ Epicure.
Do you realize how the kind of name-calling that you are doing in your post does nothing to advance the discourse on the matter? In fact, its intended effect is the exact opposite.
“Loony Left” is just about the biggest brush stroke that you could find, huh? Its as much an overgeneralization as “Racist Right” would be.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
This person should be ARRESTED for collecting (stealing!) information from people under a false circumstance. They have a name for it, it’s called FRAUD!! It should also be considered a HATE CRIME in that he is promoting just that (Hate) of other people that he doesn’t agree with but is willing to ‘pretend’ (fraudulently) that he is one of them for the specific reason of causing the group ‘harm’…
I say call the cops, take away their teaching credentials and fire them!
April 30th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
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April 30th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
I am reading this at work… should I be fired?
On another note, all Tea-Party-ers I know in person are either loonies or NRA members. Sometimes both.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
If this person did anything in appropriate while using the school’s equipment or on their dime then he should, and most likely will, be punished. The greater issue here is the fact that he tried to commit fraud on a grand scale and got caught…add to that, he put it out there for all to see so he has no defense for his stupidity. The man is definitely guilty of stupidity but that is hardly a crime.
@Epicure your rant is simply that – a rant, and does not advance the intellectual discourse on this subject in any way.
@ Alan – this hardly rises to the level of hate crime. Just because someone disagrees with the ideology of another person or group does not automatically make it a hate crime. He can hate what they stand for and work to bring them to ruin – it’s his right. What he can’t do is commit fraud and that is what he is guilty of attempting.
If this was not on the school’s dime then there is nothing that they can do to him. Teachers are people too and have a right to their ideologies as much as the next American. And yes, teachers influence young minds daily…but, as long as they are not advocating inappropriate actions in their classrooms it is no one’s business what their ideologies are.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
I just think it’s funny that someone from the Tea Party is suggesting that someone else take anger management and sensitivity classes.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
@Basil: you missed the point…if he is blogging about this during school time, using school computers, it violates policies against participating in political action while on school time (and grounds). That is what is being investigated (easily determined I might add by just checking blog post dates, times, etc.)
Additionally, can you provide a few examples to back up your claim that tea partiers “act like fools in front of cameras”? It is only ok to protest and hold up signs if you are a lefty? I did not know that. There already are plants with each tea party event and as has been proven already, these are the people holding up racist signs and yelling racial slurs.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2010/04/15/ap-item-tea-partys-extremist-concerns-recycles-racial-slur-myth-nearly-i
April 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Mr. Levin’s mistake is in (allegedly) creating his “Crash the Tea Party” campaign on school time – when he was supposed to be working (not at lunch), and getting paid to work. From reading this article, it appears that he also advertised his profession and his employer. The district is right to conduct an investigation and, based on the findings, take action it deems appropriate.
There should be absolutely nothing wrong with any teacher having students research the rise and role of the modern Tea Party movement. However, it should be done in a way that allows the students do their own research – based on teacher or department guidelines, and, perhaps, a list of approved websites, including a selection of those who offer varying points of view – in order to form their own INFORMED opinion. Teachers have a tough row to hoe when it comes to playing the role of coach and keeping a neutral stance in a subject as touchy as this one can be. They are human, after all; however, if a teacher isn’t up to the challenge of letting students sit in the driver’s seat for this sort of research, it might be better not to take the trip at all.
Mr. Levin has every right to his opinion, vitriolic as it might appear to be – my guess is he’s not alone. He has the right, as a citizen, on his own time, to support and campaign for the candidate he feels best represents his interests, and has every right to expect that his job will not be jeopardized because of his politics. On the other hand, he does not have a right to color his students’ opinions before they have had the opportunity to research and form them. He does not have the right to proclaim his opinion as a member of the school district, thereby leaving the impression that it is approved and/or shared by the district.
The district has every right to refrain from honoring the Tea Party’s requests, unless it believes that following through on any of them is in the best interests of the district, the students, and, like it or not, the teacher.
So much hot air here – on both sides.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I am no Tea Bagger but have relatives who are — and they rant and rave all the time, so I guess it’s not surprising that an anti-Tea Bagger might do the same. Personally, I think Tea Baggers are a frightening group, but in any case, I hardly think that what this teacher did on school time with school equipment was appropriate. This kind of activity should be done on personal time only. To me that’s the issue. The teacher needs to be teaching his students–not grinding his ax–on school time.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Anger management and sensitivity classes? Hogwash! Would you want someone who is so intolerant as Mr. Levin teaching your children? Anyone who advocates dismantling and demolishing a political party obviously does not agree with the right to free speech, thought, and peaceful assembly granted us by the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Levin should be dismissed and required to reimburse the school district for misappropriation of time and resources. Criminal prosecution should also be pursued if warranted after investigation. An individual with such flawed judgment has no business being in a classroom.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Unless I read an edited version of this teacher’s activities, there was no evidence provided that the teacher did any of the things for which he is being investigated. They are mere suspicions. If that is indeed the situation, this entire episode is a tragic over-reaction and preemptive restraint of his right to be anything, say anything, believe anything, promote anything he chooses. Let’s get a grip. This appears to be more of a retreat to a sorry past where teachers were held to standards and denied the freedoms that regular citizens all enjoyed. Everything I’ve read here in the comments appears to be wild leaps into unfounded speculation and a willingness to censor matching the worst examples of dictatorships.
Look in the mirror folks. You’ve become what you fear most.
April 30th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Plenty of teachers send religious messages through school mail, on “company time”, and no one seems to think that that is inappropriate!
April 30th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Let ye who did non-work related internet activity, while at work be the first to cast the stone…
April 30th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
So this guy had to crash the tea party. this is the problem with the libs, if you disagree with them they will try to destroy you. This is why a second revolution is brewing.
April 30th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Janet–I fail to see the connection. If those religious messages are anything like what gets forwarded to me, I think your civil liberties are safe.
April 30th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
As a classroom educator of 35 years I can’t tell you the number of times that I sat back and let things happen that should not have happened or said things really not honoring to my Savior, who ALL will kneel to. This teacher is a product of the liberal factory that produced him. He probably belongs to a union that has long been a political arm of the DFL that brought us tax payer paid abortions. I pray for all those students having to listen to the liberal curriculum spewed out from the Godless campuses that continue to say there is NO God and are rewriting history. If you don’t feel the urgency the tea party is partly about to pray and act to take back us back to our Godly principals we should all be about doing- perhaps it is too late and Lord quickly come! God is long suffering not willing that anyone should perish! Glory be to God! Fear God and keep His Commands- that will keep you busy enough Jason. From one who was a puberty middle school educator.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
My fav part is that he used prejudice to protest prejudice…just something to think about. And also to the person who refered to him as the “looney left” I am very progressive and I do not support what he did or in the way he did it. If you are going to say something against someone and their views and how they are prejudice you might want to not use stereotypes and prejudice. Wait do I see a theme? Why yes I do! Doesn’t matter if you are right, left, center, or inside out if you are prejudiced you are never in the “right” (ha ha) oh and fyi I am an educator, I am progressive, I do not force my views on my students and I am typing this from my home computer while at home on my own time.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
The story is somewhat inaccurate. What this man did was anonymously put up an internet forum that invited people who were against the Tea Parties to go to tea party events and commit acts that would make the Tea Party look bad such as racist signs, racist acts, agent provocateur tactics etc. Some newsgroups and bloggers alerted the public about the forum site. Several things happened very quickly: people identified the owner of the forum through whois info and posted his personal identity info on his forum and on news sites and blogs (he quickly changed his domain info but it was too late), tea party posters jammed up his forum with humorous posts, bloggers got word out that there about the agent provacatuer threat at events, people looked at his source code and figured out that he was administering his hate site on school property and reported him, people found his linked in, facebook, and other information and posted links and photos of him so everyone would know what he looked like if he tried to disrupt an event. I saw the forum and though a lot of the posts were obviously parody, his posts were creepy as he was quite seriously attempting to incite others to commit acts that might be illegal and or hate crimes.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
I listened to David McCulloch last night. He said the education system is our fault. OUR fault, adults, on the right or left. Dumbing down is something that we must fear. All countries die from within, mostly because of ignorance. This one is well on the way.
April 30th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
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April 30th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
What is particularly worrying for Australians is when America descends into Fascism via the Tea Party and then you Americans start streaming out to the civilised world as refugees, to escape oppression, bringing your sense of entitlements with you.
May 1st, 2010 at 2:24 am
May Good Orderly Direction (G.O.D.) protect our children from teachers like Robert Cheeseman.
May 1st, 2010 at 2:54 am
A parent of one of his students wrote a letter to the editor for the Oregonian and explained the teacher NEVER talked about his views in class. People seem to assume the worse. Let TSP investigate. If done on school time on the school computer deal with it. If not, let him spout his beliefs, this is his right even though you or I may not agree with them. My goodness, people seem determined to polarize this nation. What’s that “teaching” our youth today?
May 1st, 2010 at 4:24 am
As a teacher (30 years) in high school, 11 years in college, and 8 years on a high school Board of Education, I have found that school boards represent the most ignorant and stupid bodies of any legislative group of officials in the country, Nothing surprises me but I always thought Oregon was an “enlightened state” but I guess they are no different than Texas, Kansas, etc. etc. etc. Just another peg in the fall of the American Empire.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Separation of church & state? – great. Separation of school & politics? – perverted. Holy smoke, but this reaction to his behavior smells of Eau de Mussolini.
Give the boy a medal, for (G—’s) sake, in the name of liberty.
By the way, in response to people who condemn Levin for using slurs against tea-party folks, & who advocate instead something like “rational debate”: that’s a bit like Chamberlain calling for restraint in the political response to the German regime before the invasion of Poland. Turn the other cheek to the irrational passions of the runaway right, and they’ll savage it too with mob-oriented slander. Call them by the dirty names that they continue to insist on earning (while dishing them out freely to everybody else).
Those of us in other countries are terribly concerned about the direction in which America is heading, because America is not just about its domestic concerns. The whole world is hostage to the politics & the economy of the USA. Let it not be said that folks outside the country should butt out.
A hundred years ago, the world’s most vigorous and sophisticated economy, with the most cutting-edge technology, was Germany. After the major setback of a war, the country was in economic crisis and was prey to its international competitors in the 1920s & early 1930s. Along came a right-wing solution. And it worked. It was the National Socialist Party, aka Nazi.
Analogy is irrelevant to proof. But consider the likelihood. America today is in economic decline. The average quality of life of its citizens lags well behind that of several other developed countries, & even Canadian live longer & healthier, never mind several European countries. The American rate of poverty & overall inequality is way beyond that of several nation-states, & this is a sustained reality, not a fluctuation. The US dollar is losing ground to other currencies; it’s been a good while now. In short, America is deeply worried, & people are desperate for solutions. It’s the right-ended ideologists who are feeding off this worry. If they succeed further in paralyzing the American polity (never mind the unthinkable — that they again take over Washington), then the rest of the world had better intensify its efforts to construct a shield around the USA to insulate the rest of us from being sucked into the inferno alongside a key nation now bent upon self-immolation.
John DeRoche, sociologist (age 62)
Cape Breton University, NS, Canada
May 3rd, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Though I do not support the Tea Party, it is nice to see conservatives practicing democracy, especially after listening to them call us anti-American communist terrorists for he 8 years of king Bush’s rule.
With this said, I hope tea party supporters understand that they are at war with the fire department, police department, teachers, road workers, city/state/federal employees, public college employees, and everyone else in the public sector. The fact is, the tea party wants to place as all in the unemployment line. It wants to rip our jobs away, deny us health care, public education for our children, and take away our state unemployment. It is an assault on the financial stability of working class people who have given up the dream of getting rich just to work FOR society. We are dedicated to America, we sacrifice for America, and live here because we love our country. But when Republican fundamentalists are consistently trying to harm us, our families, and the nation we love, some of us go too far in our attempts to safeguard our families, homes, and society.
It is too bad that these tea party protesters did not have a problem when Bush was spending us into this crisis trying to disarm a man that was not armed, or fighting a war against terrorism in a country void of terrorists. If you had stood up when you actually could have made a difference, we wouldn’t be in this mess now. Of course, I know, wasting money on un-needed wars is soooo much more important than spending it on stupid things like our children’s education and health care.
May 4th, 2010 at 4:04 am
Wow. How so many apparently intelligent people can have such a distorted and uneducated view of the Tea Party is astounding–but then again, it shoudn’t be because of a media that largely promotes their own agenda of the “Tea Baggers” (as they have dubbed them) and because of nut job lefties like Levin who wish to sabotage the Tea Partiers (while also illegally collecting innocent people’s personal information to harm them [and some of you are defending this?!]).
It would probably surprise many of you if you actually went to a Tea Party rally and met some of these Tea Party individuals; rather than spouting your misinformation about how pro-fascist, pro-socialist, or violent they are (with nothing to support your assertions other than your own small-minded opinions), you might actually learn something–that these people are actually in favor of the democratic republic of our founding fathers and are not in favor of violence, like that the lefties displayed this past weekend (May 2) when they damaged 18 businesses in a pro-immigration riot.
In fact, it may also surprise some of you to learn that those in the Tea Party movement are not only Caucasian, but are also African American, Latino, Asian, European, etc. They are also not just Republican but are also Democrat, Independent, and Libertarian. Their primary objection is to a growing government–one that they see as growing too large and taking over too many aspects of the private sector (what sounds like socialism here and who sounds like they are objecting to it?). Another objection is to the continued spending that this administration is doing (a carryover from the previous administration, yes, but even worse in this administration–but some are so blinded by their own parties that they cannot see the reality slapping them upside the head!). We cannot continue this gross spending; most of us, when we look in our wallets and see that they are empty, don’t spend anymore. But not our Congress. It just blithely and happily keeps on spending. Do you think there will be no consequence for this? Especially if it continues? And some of you think the Tea Partiers are jeopardizing your future and jobs? Egads! Get real!
Well, I’ve said enough. All I know is that I hope those with common sense still left join the Tea Party and object to the rampant spending and government encroachment into almost every facet of the private sector. I, for one, hold this republic that our founding fathers created quite dear and I would hate for corporatism (look it up because Obama is sure doing a good job of going that route!) to usurp what they fought so hard for.
~ 20+ Years Teaching University
~ Political (moderate) Independent
~ Tea Partier (and neither my students nor my colleagues know it because (1) school, IMO, is not the place to push a political agenda and (2) academia is notoriously left-wing)
May 6th, 2010 at 6:08 am
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