It's "Take a Wingnut to School Day"

The editors of the Manchester Union Leader weigh in with Hijacking schools: McAuliffe, other Dems exploit students

Students at Portsmouth High School thought they were going to learn about civics when Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe visited the school to guest teach a social studies class recently. Instead they learned that it is not beneath McAuliffe to hijack a classroom and replace a civics lesson with partisan indoctrination.

School officials and some Portsmouth city councilors are angry at McAuliffe for turning a teaching assignment into a political rally. McAuliffe told students that President Bush may reinstitute the draft and that he is responsible for most college graduates being unable to find jobs, Foster’s Daily Democrat reported.

Principal Forrest Ransdell may not have known that McAuliffe is the kind of person who would do just what Superintendent Lyonel Tracy said he hoped guest speakers would never do: “Exploit these kids for their own partisan agendas.”

Unfortunately, McAuliffe is not alone in doing this. When Howard Dean spoke at Central High School for Memorial Day, his staffers passed out campaign stickers to students as they entered the assembly, and at least one student complained to the student newspaper that Dean turned the event into a political speech.

I guess the old days when politicians turned up at local schools to talk to the kids about good citizenship have gone the way of the dodo. At least Terry could have given the tykes some job tips, like "How a professional political fund raiser became a multimillionaire."

But if you think that's bad, how about the "Wheels of Justice Tour" where the usual crew of Palestinian and Saddam apologists visit local schools to attack the Israelis and the US.

On Dec. 4th, 2003 the “Wheels of Justice Tour” appeared during school hours on the grounds of Ukiah High School in Northern California. What was this tour? It was the PLO, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and other leftist groups such as International Answer packaged to teach your 15 year-old child that the Israel must be dismantled and the US must get out of Iraq to aid the comeback of Saddam Hussein. Passing themselves off as objective “peace” advocates, the tour group spoke at Ukiah High to three class sessions during school hours and had their bus, as a sort of rolling museum, on school grounds all day for the students to look at.

Here's more on the "Wheels of Justice Tour". They were hosted in Ukiah by the faculty leader of the student "Progressives Club" who tried at first to plead ignorance of what kind of vermin he had invited. Kind of like a roach scuttling for cover when the lights are turned on.

But there was some good news - there was no mention of Roadkill Rachel Corrie in the article.