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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Saturday, December 18, 2004

Spite the children

A school in Oklahoma decided was told by their lawyers that they should remove a nativity scene from the school ground, provoking a community outrage. Parents decided to take it out on their children(via Political Wire):
Dismayed that a Nativity, or depiction of Christ's birth in a manger, was ordered cut by the superintendent, some voters in this growing, southwest Oklahoma City suburb retaliated by helping block passage of the bonds. Those bonds included money for a new elementary school that would ease crowding.

It was the first time in at least a decade that voters didn't rubber stamp the district's bond proposals – and yet another sign that America's so-called values voters are flexing electoral muscle against what they view as an excess of political correctness.

"There were people who went and voted who normally wouldn't," said Shelly Marino, whose third-grader attends the elementary school that staged the production. "They felt it was a way to get the school board's attention."

The best way to teach the school a lesson would be to force your kids to attend class in an overcrowded system and diminish their level of education. Remember that in your community.