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Virginia Teachers Union Sparks Outrage With 'Obama Blue Day'

NEW YORK: Virginia Republicans are in uproar over state teachers union's effort to get educators to show their support for Barack Obama during school hours.

FOXNews.com

Thursday, October 02, 2008

From the Washington Times ...: not stressed in above article

"Dorris Boitnott, a VEA member and author of the e-mail, said that in hindsight she should not have paired the idea of supporting Mr. Obama with that of registering young voters. Mrs. Boitnott, who said she is not related to Kitty Boitnott, also said she had no intention of encouraging teachers to recruit students into a political campaign.

She pointed out that the e-mail discourages teachers from wearing T-shirts or campaign buttons in the classroom that specifically name Mr. Obama."

I can understand why some would be upset.  It is well known that teacher's unions are highly political, a lot of times to the left-

There was Obama Blue day so the whole wear blue day didn't come from the school district itself it was a national campaign for all those voting for Obama.   I think the line between the VEA political cause and the education process was taken a bit to far.

There are a lot more influences in childs life, not just school.   T.V., Parents , church,  coaches, friends, billboards etc.  We just have to teach our children to look at the issues and make the best decision.

oh big deal they were going to wear blue shirts big whoop mccain supporters could of worn red shirts the same day but nooo they have to complain about the color of ppls shirts. would of been funny having teachers only wearing red or blue shirts maybe they could reenact a bloods vs crips gang fight =P. 

If goes All Way round including Ron Paul  I have no issues  w this HOWEVER   it should Not Be  open invite for ONE CANDIDATE!!  It should be its Election  Tuesday !! Wear colors to support your  cdidaes If this woulda said Support McCain Palin Day wear Red   Or Support your President Bush  Day  all the peeps really POd at them would be screaming bloody murder .. I am asking if this ACCEPTABLE method  of teaching our kids about Politics  ?? If it were the unfavoured side ? Im Annoyed personally Ive heard news reports POd for Background on a school ground of McCain  Really Protest.Why then is this OK

its not teaching them about politics its about a choice in what color shirt to wear. did you know that reps wernt always red and dems wernt always blue a newspaper came up with the color coding to show which group won which state and they would change colors every so often so the reps could be blue and the dems red. never the less it is just a color of a shirt no name or anything on it to party affilation and i dont see it any way swaying kids votes plus not many of the kids would even be old enough to vote. i think kids would be more swayed by their parents if they were gung ho mccain or obama supporters, well that is if the parents even have the time to give to their kids. if the color of a shirt is going to sway kids then you better go remove bumper stickers from cars that actually say the candidates names because you know kids loooooovvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeee stickers.

Lets look beyond shirt color here.  Lets look at ethics. 

The other side.  Just four years ago I walked into church with children in attndence and told i should vote for Bush.  As an organization the Church made a political stance- was this okay?  Is a teacher  voting age who to vote no different then a priest telling a person of voting age who to vote for?  Where do we stand ethically on how to share are views on politics when children reach a voting age?

Granted the shool admitted the error- the e-mail was sent on a union level not an educator level.  The line was crossed by the union not the school.