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From the Mid-Hudson Valley Perspective Archive
Teacher’s Anti-Bush Rant Caught on ‘Tape’
An Overland High School teacher who criticized President Bush, capitalism and U.S. foreign policy during his geography class was placed on administrative leave Wednesday afternoon after a student who recorded the session went public with the [mp3 recording].
(Posted Thursday, March 2, 2006 ) <Read it>
--Denver Post--
Editorial Comment
Late word is that the teacher will be defended by an ACLU lawyer. - BK
If this “teacher” questions the legality of the student taping the harangue, I would answer that as a public school teacher, he is speaking for the people who pay his salary, i.e., the taxpayers, and those taxpayers have every right to know what kind of bilge he’s putting out. - BK