Pond Scum
James Taranto reveals Great Moments in Public Education:

Bloggers Joe Katzman and Trent Telenko pick up on a disturbing report from WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine (video is here), that children of Maine National Guardsmen who've been deployed to the Gulf have found themselves facing schoolyard taunts--not from fellow students but from "antiwar" teachers.
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Most of the children involved, WABI reports, are between seven and nine years old.

There are times when an ass-kicking just isn't enough.