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Democratic Candidate Shows His 8th Grade Class Bush Bashing Video
Watch the Bush Bashing Video Slide-Show Here (*contains obscene language):
 Filmstripinternational.com
[Alabama] West Limestone High School eighth grade science teacher Steve White, a Democratic candidate for the District 4 seat on the House of Representatives, decided that it was appropriate to show his students a Bush bashing video slide-show that is filled with the word a-hole (spelled out onscreen in the video).
The slides in the video show President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others, including conservative author Ann Coulter. Words appear at the bottom of each slide bashing whoever is onscreen. One slide shows George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them both a-holes. Another slide showing Condoleezza Rice implies that she was out buying shoes when the levees broke. Playing in the background through the entire video is a song titled “A-hole.”
The word a-hole is sung nine times and shown onscreen 11 times; the s-word is used once and someone is shown "giving the middle finger" once. This type of name calling by a student would result in some type of punishment or reprimand, yet a grown man who is a teacher (and running for Congress) thinks that it's fully appropriate. Apparently, Steven White also thinks that it is appropriate to politically indoctrinate a classroom full of 8th grade students in a science class. What he's doing even bringing up politics in a science class should be a concern.
Parent Christy Jackson, whose 13-year-old son is a student in Steven White's class, said that his class discussions often turn political. “I know of one instance where my son was told he couldn’t leave the room without saying, ‘John Kerry rocks,’” she said. “I think my son is entitled to his opinion, just like (his teacher) is. I don’t think any issue should be forced on my son.”
The Limestone County School Board has placed the teacher on leave while they are conducting an investigation.
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