Thursday, January 16, 2003

- Oakland and San Francisco Teachers Organize Teach-Ins on the War

School board members...declared themselves firmly against another Iraq war. But all agreed the events would be non-biased and present all sides of the issue.....The problem, organizers said, was they couldn’t find anyone to represent a “pro-war” side.

From one of the teachers:  “I think many of us remembered why we became teachers, to change the world, to build a better future, to awaken a sleeping country of materialists and individualists, and help people see the beauty and power of community and working to make a better world.”

Note how some of the articles editorialize and trivialize while pretending to be neutral, particularly “Teaching In Friday”, December 20, 2002 By Joanne Jacobs, Associated Press (Last article)

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