Students told not to say Obama's name.

[Blue Diadem]

Some Pearl Students Told Not To Say Obama's Name
School Bus Driver, Coach Disciplined

PEARL, Miss. -- The Pearl Schools superintendent said that a school bus driver and a coach were disciplined for allegedly telling students not to say President-elect Barack Obama’s name.

Reporters with 16 WAPT News received several calls from upset parents that said a school bus driver told the children on a Pearl school bus that if they said Obama’s name, they would be written up and taken to the principal’s office for disciplinary reasons.

Another parent said that a coach at Pearl Junior High School told students that if they speak Obama’s name, they would face expulsion.

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"I did have two incidents and the principals did review the bus driver tapes. It appears that some persons, out of disappointment and disillusionment with the election, may have been so frustrated that they said something inappropriate to students,” Pearl Schools Superintendent John Ladner said. “We have taken appropriate steps with the bus driver and the coach.”

http://www.wapt.com/politics/17925627/detail.html
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Disappointment and disillusionment? I find it strange that the superintendent would make excuses for those two people. At least it appears there will be some form of discipline for them. I can't imagine what those kids felt after getting put off the bus for saying the name of the newly elected President.

[cali]

Fire the racist shitbags

[Blue Diadem]

10. I bet their discipline was more like a slap on the hand.

The more I think about it, the angrier I get. You're right, they should be fired.

[krabigirl]

1. What the hell is wrong with people?

[Aristus]

2. Great civics lesson for the students: The ways in which free speech is threatened by autocratic

tyranny. Fight back, kids! The future is yours!

[mainegreen]

3. 'bus driver tapes'?

They tape them now?

Not that it's a bad idea, but, huh, how some things change.

[trayfoot]

6. Yes, having cameras on School buses has been a growing trend......

also having cameras in hallways, cafeterias, and around buildings.

[FatDave]

32. Wasn't that a Dylan album?

[Danascot]

37. Greatful Dead

[gratuitous]

4. Are they afraid the djinn will materialize if invoked?

Sheesh, what passes for "thought" in some people's fevered little brain pans?

[LeftishBrit]

5. Not allowed to say their own president's name?

How would these people have liked it if their kids had been put off a bus for saying Bush's name?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. FDR was lampooned as a "bad word" at one time.

Left panel. "Mother, Wilfred wrote a bad word."

[curse of greyface]

8. I heard from Sally... my friend in homeroom... that is you look in the bathroom mirror

and say Obama's name three times....

You get free health-care.


Oh and yes fire the fucking idiots.

[devilgrrl]

9. Oh for Christ's sake! F%#@in' grow up America!

:mad::nuke::grr::argh::mad:

[RJ Connors]

11. Or then again it might be.

"I did have two incidents and the principals did review the bus driver tapes. It appears that some persons, out of disappointment and disillusionment with the election, may have been so frustrated that they said something inappropriate to students,”

Then again, he (Bus Driver) may have been trying to protect some kids from rabid McCain losers. He just went about it the wrong way. Focus should have been on actions not names.

Just saying.

[agentS]

12. This is gonna be a LOOOONNNNNGGGGG 2 months

before Obama takes office.
:hide:

[hootinholler]

13. Every kid on that bus route should greet the driver with your President Obama says good morning!

For the next four years.

-Hoot

[screembloodymurder]

14. I'm giving my right-wing friends a picture of a Obama.

On the back of the picture, it says Mr. President. I'm going to ask them to look at the picture, turn it over, and repeat after me.

[Blue Diadem]

15. Tee Hee...you'll make their heads explode.

I can picture them being like Fonzie from Happy Days trying to say the sentence "I was wrong." I suspect we'll be hearing President Oooooohh a lot from right wingers.

[Maraya1969]

16. I think this is the important part....

It appears that some persons, out of disappointment and disillusionment with the election, may have been so frustrated that they said something inappropriate to students,” Pearl Schools Superintendent John Ladner said. “We have taken appropriate steps with the bus driver and the coach.”


They were frustrated so it seems to me they were saying "Hussein"

[BrklynLiberal]

17. How did you come to that conclusion?

[Blue Diadem]

20. There is more in the story at the link.

snip from article:

Reginald Simpson said kids on the school bus were saying, "Obama is our president." That's when he said the bus driver told the kids not to say the president-elect's name because she didn't want to hear it.

[Iggo]

40. Wait...what now?

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

[lebkuchen]

18. I had dinner with various military intel last night

and that included a retired general. When I asked the group if they thought Obama would ask Powell to be Sec. of Defense, everyone said absolutely not. They're upset with Powell for having gotten involved in Obama's campaign. An MI guy, who can't stand Obama and is very angry with Powell, said that we would have an administration more left than we've ever had. I joked and said, "You're sitting next to a leftist." He shouted at me, in all seriousness, "I know you're a leftist! You're from San Francisco!"

The anger frightened me, and I relied on my friend to my left to get me into his discussion on the other side of the table.

[Blue Diadem]

21. Holy Cow, that had to be difficult for you.

Their anger is just crazy. Good thing you had a friend right there.

[lebkuchen]

27. I couldn't sleep last night, it was that disturbing

The MI guy was red in the face. It started out w/my question re: DoD choice, and after everyone said no way would Powell accept the position due to obvious reasons, the guy went into a diatribe about how Powell had been wrong to speak out, and he completely misinterpreted Powell's intent.

I said that I thought General Powell's comments were well-taken, and that I had appreciated them. I said that Powell had thought the debate had gone so off course on issues of no importance to the country, that he was attempting to resuscitate it from its death spiral and redirect attention to those issues that concerned the security of the country.

MI guy started hyperventilating over Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, and he asked me what I thought about Obama cavorting with them. I said I wasn't willing to talk about Obama (I never talk politics with wingers; Powell was just an excuse to test the military waters), that the discussion was centered on Powell, but that I didn't care one wit about the Wright/Ayers issues. MI guy got red again and said that that was the problem. "You don't care! Nobody cares! They should care!" And then the comment about how the country was now going to go far left. When I joked that he was sitting next to a "leftist," it surprised me that he took it completely to heart, and then maligned everyone who lived in SF. (MI guy had tried to get me into a discussion about Gavon Newsom earlier, and I didn't bite, so I think he's majorly anti-gay.)

I felt that if MI guy ever got too much power, I'd be shot along with everyone within a ten mile radius of Powell/Market. This is why I don't want any active duty military unit policing any Americans.

I told my friend that these people would never be allowed in my house, ever, and that I need not be invited to any future events that involve them.

PS The general (ret) kept his mouth shut throughout, but I figured MI guy may have been grandstanding for him since they eat breakfast together every am.

[Blue Diadem]

30. Can't say I blame you for not wanting them at your home or for

not wanting to go to any future events with them. This election has really brought out the crazy in people.

[lebkuchen]

31. That has been the downside of the election win.

Winger mania is haunting, hating and vengeful.

[14thColony]

35. I would expect another 74 days of spouting off, then zip

I assume this guy was an officer? I'm a fairly senior MI officer too, and although we have one or two outspoken anti-Obamists in my command, most people are either very pleased with the election results, or keeping pretty quiet if they're not. One or two have made negative comments since the election, and they probably feel they're ok to do so until 20 January. After that criticism of the president becomes a crime. As much as I detest Bush, I've been careful for the past eight years to make sure anything negative I say is in reference to his policies, and not the man himself. At least in the presence of other military. If he has any common sense, expect this guy's rhetoric to taper off about the second week of the new year.

As General Franks said on FOX, once the new president is inaugurated our institutional transfer of loyalty is pretty much automatic. That may not apply to everyone individually, but the system exerts tremedous pressure to conform and comply.

[screembloodymurder]

26. I've come to the conclusion that it is impossible to talk politics with the other side.

If any of my right-wing relatives bring up politics, I am simply going to tell them I no longer want to discuss politics other than to say,

You lost and we won ... I don't need to gloat about it.

[lebkuchen]

28. I concur

Read my post above.

You can't talk to a winger. They are too reactionary and explosive. There is no reason involved in their thought process, and their "take" on recorded events is completely opposite that which had been developed on film. You have to be living in the depths of manic denial with magic glasses to come up with some of the interpretations of reality these nuts contrive.

[Flirtus]

34. thanks for your report

I've got the prospect of visiting family at Thanksgiving (them coming here to visit my Aunt) and I think I'll plan to mostly be on call at work. I can't talk to them, can I? For the sake of my elderly Aunt.

[mimitabby]

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[Blue Diadem]

22. .

:)

[Miss Chybil]

23. Of all the gawl. To think they could tell kids not to speak the name of their own president.

The President-elect of the United States of America is BARACK OBAMA.

BARACK OBAMA!

BARACK OBAMA!

BARACK OBAMA!

[marshall]

42. And now we can also say his middle name with pride

Barack Hussein Obama!

[truedelphi]

24. This is the area of the world where even after de-segregation had

Succeeded in other parts of the country, you would still see small black kids, lugging their books and lunch pails, along the dusty shoulders of the highway, making their long way to school.

While the white kids' school bus drove by.

[auburngrad82]

25. This is the location of one of the school shootings back in the late 90s

Give 'em time. They'll thin the gene pool...

[Cha]

29. Well, at least this is getting news all

over the internet. Words like these from School Bus Drivers have consequences and I hope the kids are able to learn something positive from it.

[rvablue]

33. Since neither of these bigots are being fired, I have the perfect plan for their punishment

all of these kids that ride this bigot's bus and all of the kid's who are coached by the other bigot need to meet up this weekend and write up a list of 500 everyday sentences they can say that include the word Obama and that will drive these racist nutjobs bat shit crazy.

"Want some of my PBJ. I like to share like Obama."

"Wow, I just made that lay up....just like Obama."

The thought of this is dreamy....isn't it?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

36. I bet his bus has McCain sticker on it....

[Zorra]

38. More loony toons from good 'ol American fascists. n/t

[4lbs]

39. If I was one of those kids, I'd tell them "Ok then, how about I just refer to the current one as

'asshole'? As in, 'When is that asshole going to leave office so a real President can take over?'"

[McCamy Taylor]

41. This is the new president! Fire them! They are traitors!

[jxnmsdemguy65]

43. Pearl is a lower middle class white suburb...

of Jackson Mississippi. Full of the worst sort of lowbrow NASCAR loving rednecks. This kind of reaction from them on the election does not surprise me in the least.