School cancels Remembrance Day event

[The Straight Story]

School cancels Remembrance Day event

OTTAWA - The 20th anniversary of an educational Remembrance Day event is being cancelled at a west Ottawa Catholic high school after the teacher organizing it was told “no tanks or guns” are allowed in the school.

Notre Dame High School history teacher Gene Michaud sent an e-mail to friends last Friday, sadly announcing the end of the Remembrance Day Symposium — shocking many in the military community.

“There’s a huge difference between some kid with a grudge bringing a weapon that’s loaded into a school, and veterans putting on a Remembrance display with non-functioning historical replicas,” said Wayne Mac Culloch, a retired major who spent more than 40 years in the Canadian Forces, including five missions overseas.

“What we’ve got going on here is a warped perspective of no weapons in schools.”

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/11/03/18918501.html

[saras]

1. It's because they passed a "no guns" law when they needed the more difficult "no assholes" law

[gratuitous]

2. How are the kiddies going to be taught to worship and venerate the holy objects?

Heresy!

[Poll_Blind]

3. Why not just celebrate the Veterans, themselves, instead of the guns, tanks, uniforms?

Izzat so crazy?

PB

[xchrom]

4. ...

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