Garfield was my high school's cross-town rival. I remember one girl trying to get a similar thing going at my alma mater couple years ago, when I was working on my high school paper.
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Ted Inkley argued against the resolution because he thought it dangerous to deny free speech to organizations simply because their philosophies or intentions disagreed with the PTSA.
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Is it just me, or is denying free speech to the organizations who provide for and protect this freedom the most dangerous of all?
Not to hijack this thread too badly, but stuff like this always remind me of the many times through my elementary, middle, and high school years where we focused so hard on the Japanese internment during the war and so little on the war itself. The only substantive aspect of the war we really covered were, of course, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. D-Day received cursory mention because of all the movies. Names like Guadalcanal, Wake Island, and Hurtgen Forest were never once uttered.
Even better than this, however, was the repeated failure of so many of my classmates to identify where we had fought our next "big" war, after WWII. The attitude taken towards the Vietnam War is bad enough, but the Korean War lies without so much as a cursory glance by the teacher, perhaps a page or two in the textbook. So many of my peers were mystified when I told them that more than 50,000 Americans gave their life in the war, with thousands still unaccounted for. But, of course we couldn't spend more than five minutes talking about that war, because we had to launch into out month-long examination of the Civil Rights and the Womens Movement. I believe that both movements hold a significant place in America's history, but perhaps only because they are so vigorously emphasized. What of the men who stood and fought in temperatures that I cannot even comprehend living in, let alone fighting in?
Sometimes I think I might be a high school history teacher someday...