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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Teachers' anti-war message draws fire. Dissenting against dissenters is the ultimate form of patriotism.


SOUTH YARMOUTH — Some students are calling for the firing of two Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School teachers who held an anti-war sign during a school assembly Friday....

When D-Y resource Officer Nicholas R. Pasquarosa Jr. addressed the crowd, comparing the volunteer enlistees to a sheepdog standing between the flock and a wolf, Verani and Koscher stood on the bleachers and held an "end war" sign while everyone else sat.
It seems that in a season of rebellion against the ruling class, the rebellion is spilling over into a general rebellion against the foot soldiers of the ruling class.  

A healthy development. 
James Kinney of West Barnstable, who knows Verani and wrote a letter to the editor of the Cape Cod Times in her support, defended the teachers.

"I think that it's important to show dissent," he said. "I think that's the highest form of patriotism."
Kinney may want to consider that dissenting against dissenters is an even higher form of patriotism.

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