Dear Editor,
The arguments defending the Day Of Silence get increasingly
perverted by the day.
Dear Editor,
The arguments defending the Day Of Silence get increasingly perverted by the day.
Rolf Bruckner (Feb. 28), who claims to be an “educater,” cannot comment on the limits of political speech in the workplace.
His cave must be quite distant, since he is obviously incapable of asking anyone who works in the public and private sectors what would happen if they were to engage in political protest while on the clock. Or perhaps he has experienced “tar and feather” and has subsequent psychological problems. Dis here “educator” has no problem with teachers using the classroom as a pulpit for their political causes, as long as he agrees with said cause; I wonder if he can spell “unprofessional,” let alone define it.
Sharon Stone (Feb. 27) wonders whether those in opposition would be “so aggressively vocal … if their children would be missing direct teaching for a field trip, an assembly, a film, or a day in the library.” It is absolutely LUDICROUS to compare POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION and political protest at taxpayer expense to field trips et al! But such “thinking” is par for the course for someone who compares to Nazis those who oppose the Day Of Perversion. Would they be equally supportive if teachers decided to hold a day in silence in support of the liberation of the Palestinian homeland (the occupation being the root cause of today’s terrorism), or in protest of late-term abortion (essentially, legalized murder) or of the unconstitutional abolition of our Second Amendment rights in California? A day of silence for every cause!
Alan Viarengo, Gilroy
