A Cookeville (Tenn.) High School administrator said Veterans for Peace and a Quaker group can't come back into his school with materials considered "anti-American" and "anti-military."
The groups plan to go before the Putnam County school board tomorrow with claims that they're being denied privileges afforded to other organizations, including military recruiters.
The war veterans, some who also belong to the Quaker group, were allowed into the school during a September fair for organizations. They set up a table with books about U.S. wars and offered photocopied fliers and pamphlets from both organizations about the war in Iraq and military careers and alternatives.[...]
"The information was brought to the attention of administrators because of the influence it may have had," said [Principal Wayne] Shank, who restricted future visits by the groups. "I felt, from a principal's viewpoint, that the students were being put into a position that they shouldn't."
[...] Shank specified some quotes in the literature that he objected to, including one from a 1953 speech by President Eisenhower that said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed. Those who are cold and are not clothed."
Tennessean article
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Inappropriate for high school students
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