The Scriptorium

More on the “World Can’t Wait” protests we covered last week in Seattle.

Apparently, the LA schools gave class credit to students who ditched class for the “World Can’t Wait” protests held in several cities. They also provided school buses to take the kids to the protest, as well as adult supervision. School officials claim school resources were used to keep the kids safe since they were going to the protest anyway. I wonder how many conservative kids have been bused to pro-Bush rallies this year? Judging by the climate in LA schools, I’m guessing none. One music teacher in LA, who, of course, supported having kids cut class to protest America, reportedly made the following comments during his music classes (just one example of many):

Consider the L.A. Unified public school music teacher, who routinely calls Republicans “stupid.” The school where he teaches, by the way, purports to follow a “code of conduct” that condemns discrimination based on race, sexual preference or religious beliefs. Yet the teacher, according to one of his students, constantly condemns Republicans as “crazy religious Christians.”

The music teacher excitedly told the class about a “song” someone e-mailed him. He decided to serenade his class by singing the ditty a cappella:

The Battle Hymn of the Republicans

Mine eyes have seen the bungling of that stumbling moron Bush;
He has blathered all the drivel that the neo-cons can push;
He has lost sight of all reason ’cause his head is up his tush;
The Doofus marches on.

I have heard him butcher syntax like a kindergarten fool;
There is warranted suspicion that he never went to school;
Should we fault him for the policies — or is he just their tool?
The lies keep piling on.

Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
His wreckage will live on.

I have seen him cut the taxes of the billionaires’ lone heir;
As he spends another zillion on an aircraft carrier;
Let the smokestacks keep polluting — do we really need clean air?
The surplus is now gone.

Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
Your safety net is gone!

Now he’s got a mighty hankerin’ to bomb a prostrate state;
Though the whole world knows it’s crazy — and the U.N. says to wait;
When he doesn’t have the evidence, “We must prevaricate.”
Diplomacy is done!

Oh, a trumped-up war is excellent; we have no moral bounds;
Should the reasons be disputed, we’ll just make up other grounds;
Enraging several billions — to his brainlessness redounds;
The Doofus marches on!

Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
Glory! Glory! How he’ll screw ya’!
The Doofus marches on.

One student in the class, a self-described “conservative Christian Republican,” almost bolted from the room. The student, however, feared the teacher’s reputation for vindictiveness that could result in fewer assigned solos, or, even worse, not getting an invitation for the class’s out-of-town concerts.

This is what Christian kids are being subjected to in many public schools. It’s open bigotry and persecution. No wonder kids in bigger cities (typically liberal) score at the bottom of the barrel in national testing. They aren’t getting an education, they’re getting indoctrinated with socialist, anti-American, bigotted garbage. I thank God that I went to school when we still learned something, and I feel sorry for these kids.

Read the rest here if you can stomach it.