Wisconsin Teachers: Teach By Doing, Not By Saying.

Let's just say, hypothetically, that a group of students in Wisconsin get together. (Let's just say.) And let's just say for the sake of argument, their common denominator is .... prayer in schools. (Let's just say.)

Let's just say (hypothetically) that prayer isn't allowed in public schools in Wisconsin, and that a group of hundreds, maybe thousands, of students have a problem with that and believe that they have the right to pray in school if they want to. There is, after all, an allowance for freedom of religion in the US Constitution (the document upon which this republic was founded). So let's say these hundreds or thousands of students get together and decide one of their RIGHTS is being trampled upon. In response, they decide as a whole to protest and decide to just not go go school for oh, I don't know.... four weeks or so, in demonstration that their rights must not be infringed upon. Let's say instead of actually attending school, they show up at Wisconsin's capitol building in Madison, carrying signs that say they have a right to pray in school. Let's say they enter the capitol building and camp out there for a month or so, refusing to go to school until their right is returned. And let's say about, or no... exactly 1,000 of them get FAKE doctor's notes to excuse their absence from school.....FOR FOUR WEEKS.

I wonder....... what might actually happen to these students? Would they be excused from four whole weeks of school for not showing up? Or would they all be expelled for their number of absences and providing false documentation to the school system?

I wonder what America's opinion would be of the doctors who provided fake sick notes to the students and how they would be portrayed in the media.

I wonder if the students would be excused by the school system for the extensive amount of time they refused to go to school. I wonder if their voices would be heard and they would be given back the right to pray in school.

I wonder if America truly believes compensation benefits and entitlements are more an actual RIGHT than one that was important enough to be included in our founding document.

I wonder if a thousand children would next year be repeating whatever grade they're in now because they chose to stand up and fight for what they believe in.

I wonder.

One Double Standard, Coming Right Up!

Remember the media response to the Tea Party movement that swept America prior to the 2008 elections? Virtually every media outlet, save Fox (Faux) News, couldn't bash it enough. They took every opportunity they could find to paint Tea Partiers as racist, ignorant, angry mobs and worse. Celebrities jumped in and offered the same rhetoric as passionately as they could whenever they found themselves in front of a camera or microphone. As it was presented to us by the media, one would have thought the Tea Partiers were aiming to destroy America to its very core.

To any- and everyone who showed up at Tea Party rallies with signs that were inappropriate and disrespectful... Lame. Very. I don't support or condone any form of prejudice or racism EVER. ESPECIALLY in a public forum, ESPECIALLY aimed at a specific person, ESPECIALLY when children might be present. Not cool.

As I said earlier, the media had a field day opining about the angry, racist mobs gathering to protest for their rights and in opposition to tax increases. They shouted racism at the top of their lungs over signs likening Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, etc. Disrespectful, I agree. No argument here.

One media outlet that reported on Tea Party rallies and signs was The Huffington Post. I remembered an article published on their website after reading an article on the Wisconsin protests on HuffPo today. The slant of today's article compared to the Tea Party article rendered me.. well..... speechless? Confused? Disappointed? I'm not sure...

I'm posting the links to the two articles below. Form your own opinion. Decide for yourself if the reporting is fair and non-partisan (which they claim to be), or if it is an example of the double standard that has overtaken the politics of our nation.

Take special note of the language and substance of the signs of each, and note how HuffPo refers to each in their respective article titles. Enjoy!

***CLICK HERE TO READ HUFFINGTON POST ARTICLE ON WISCONSIN PROTEST SIGNS***

***CLICK HERE TO READ HUFFINGTON POST ARTICLE ON TEA PARTY RALLY SIGNS***

Bipartisan fairness or blatant double standard? You decide.
I'm gonna go make some signs.