Acrimony over school funding played out Tuesday in controversy over the MEA's Facebook page and its image of Snyder with satanic stars, red eyes and blood spatter.
The photo appeared to have been posted on March 11, according to Michigan Capitol Confidential, an online news agency run by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank.
The agency alerted the MEA to the photo on Tuesday morning, and it was removed minutes later.
Ken Braun, managing editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential, said his staff had noticed even before discovering the photo that the tenor of comments posted on the page had grown remarkably harsh in recent days.Folks - these are the people who have control of your kids for 180 days a year over 13 years. Think about that for a minute. 13 of the most formative years your kids will have in their entire lifetime are spent with people who for the most part think that drawing demonic horns and blood spatters is an acceptable way of expressing themselves.
Is it any wonder that people home educate their kids more and more these days?
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Is there any evidence that the person posting this picture is a teacher?
No.
Then this what we call a "baseless claim."
Most people learn about those in public school.
Hmm...let's see...MEA...Michigan Education Association - largest teacher's union in the state. And they have a Facebook page. I wonder who might read that. Simple logic would indicate teachers, public school administrators, and the occasional journalist.
But you're right NE. It was much more likely to have been Newt Gingrich. Or some other evil conservative intent on destroying the world. A teacher would never do the things described in that article. Thanks for setting me straight.
No problem,
You do understand that anyone can post something on MEA's Facebook wall, right?
Should you blamed if someone posts a derogatory picture on your blog, even if you quickly take it down.
Seriously, think this out.
Guilt by association is a terrible way to prove a point, and from Facebook pages none-the-less. It's flawed from the get-go. One person, who may or may not be a teacher, posted an image (which quite frankly could be seen as satirical) to illustrate their individual point, and you use that scenario to denigrate ALL teachers. If this is the kind of thinking home-schooling would teach my kids, I'd like to say that I'd keep them in public schooling. And why do you hate free speech so much?
It's telling, Scott, that you're immediate response is, "Oh, sure, it must have been some evil conservative." Defensive much? It's possible, perhaps probable, that a teacher did that - but as things stand your claim is pure conjecture.
PS: How do you feel about people who parade around with giant poster-board sized photos of aborted fetuses to "express themelves?"
PPS: Why does the compassionate (at least, hopefully, given the teachings of the Bible) right insist on mocking these people rather than considering the possibility that, hey, maybe these people became successful teachers for a legitimate reason and are resorting to somewhat childish tactics because they're *gasp* actually being treated unfairly?
So someone put a photoshop on the Michigan Education Association's Facebook page and suddenly this amounts to "these are the people who have control of your kids for 180 days a year over 13 years?"
Can you say "hasty generalization?" I knew you could.
You do realize that doesn't prove a teacher posted the picture right?
"Folks - these are the people who have control of your kids for 180 days a year over 13 years."
By "these" people do you mean anonymous Facebook posters? Even for a regressive blog this is ridiculous.
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