That would be the Wisconsin Extortion Association Council, the thugs from the state teachers’ union. Defanged and defunded by Gov. Walker but still dangerous to impressionable children to whom they are exposed nine months per year.
A fourth grade class from Portage was exposed to the Solidarity Singers at the State Capitol on a field trip to Madison. Not just exposed, but actually involved in the anti-Walker singing through collaboration between the teacher and the organizer of the Solidarity Singers.
Reporter Brian Polcyn of WITI-TV (Channel 6) in Milwaukee reports that not only were the children led into being active participants in the lefty political protest, the school district tried denying that it was a political protest with the superintendent refusing to watch the video when confronted by Polcyn.
On a Tuesday in late September, FOX6 watched as elementary school children were led into the middle of the protest, and encouraged to clap and sing along.
According to [song leader Chris] Reeder, it’s not the first time this has happened.
“When they are here, we do try to sing ‘This Land Is Your Land’ or ‘If I Had A Hammer,’ things they might be familiar with that are a little less political, so they would feel welcome to come into the circle,” Reeder said.
However, the protesters’ rendition of “This Land Is Your Land” includes a controversial verse that’s almost never sung in schools.
That verse is: “And on that sign it said, private property, but on the other side, it didn’t say nothing. That sign was made for you and me.”
The rendition also includes a final verse, aimed directly at the governor.
That verse is: “Scott Walker will never push us out! This house was made for you and me.”
We’ve seen this type of shameful behavior on the part of WEAC thugs before. Back in March when the debate over the budget repair bill was being held, gummint school teachers indoctrinators took classes of second and third graders to the State Capitol to engage in the unionista chants. University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse shot video of the disgusting spectacle:
At the time, we said:
Mindless drivel like “Children united will never be divided.” Or the teachers chanting “Whose house?” and the children responding “Our house!” Likewise, the teachers chanting “Show us what democracy looks like” and the kids responding “This is what democracy looks like.” And the disgusting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Scott Walker has got to go.”
My argument that gummint-run skoolz have long since stopped being institutions of learning and are little more than leftist brainwashing and indoctrination centers just got a whole new collection of evidence here.
These so-called professionals are anything but. WEAC thugs are just that — thugs. Few union teachers have even the slightest modicum of professionalism, from their attitudes down to something as simply as their attire. People who want to be considered as professionals should look, act and dress the part.
This is the type of indoctrination and brainwashing of children that’s been found in totalitarian states throughout history. Nazi Germany. The former Soviet Union. Cuber. North Korea and the worship of Dear Leader. As well as some American schools with their cult worship of Il Douche:
Kids recognize the famous Woody Guthrie song, This Land Is Your Land. Here are the most recognized verses:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me.I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
While all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me.When the sun came shining, and I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting,
This land was made for you and me.This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.
Guthrie had two more verses that he rarely included. One of those verses is:
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;
Sign was painted, it said private property;
But on the back side it didn’t say nothing;
This land was made for you and me.
That reflect the anti-private property bias but adding a verse specifically directed at Gov. Walker and then having the children on the field trip sing that verse is, to quote Daffy Duck, desthpicable.
Polcyn: “Are you, as the superintendent of the district, concerned about your students being led into a political protest to participate?”
Poches: “I’m not interested in viewing the videotape.”
Polcyn: “You didn’t answer my question. Are you concerned that your students were encouraged to participate in a political protest?”
Poches: “No.”
Poches insisted that his students did not participate in the protest, but merely happened to be in the same room, waiting for tour guides. Had he watched the FOX6 video, he would’ve seen one of the protesters talking to a fourth-grade teacher.
In the video, just a moment later, the same protester appears to let the song-leader in on his plan, and in a matter of seconds, the students are led into the circle, as their teacher watches, with no objection.
Eventually, the school principal was forced to send a letter of clarification to the parents of the students who were on the field trip. That letter can be viewed here. The letter still does not acknowledge the unprofessional behavior of the teacher but rather makes it appear to be a misunderstanding and an honest mistake. Watch the video; it’s clear there was nothing accidental about this. You can see the teacher collaborate with the thug leading the singers.
The school district also placed a letter of reprimand into the employment file of Michael Hemming, the WEAC thug that involved his students in the political protest. You can read that letter here. Hemming’s response can be viewed here. Once again, it shows that denial isn’t just a river in Egypt.
Writing at Media Trackers, Collin Roth weighs in:
Poches’ attempt to cover-up the involvement of Portage 4th graders in a political protest showed poor judgement. From stonewalling Fox 6 and refusing to see the video, to acknowledging that students were involved but claiming ignorance on behalf of the teacher, to waiting 22 days to send a letter to parents detailing the incident, the parents and taxpayers of Portage deserve answers from Poches about why he conducted himself the way he did when confronted with an obviously inappropriate action with students and teachers from his district.
Interesting to note: the letter from the principal was dated October 19, 2001. That is one day after Polcyn and his news crew confronted the superintendent with the videotaped incident and three weeks after the incident took place. In other words, the educrats saw absolutely nothing wrong with what was done and had no intention on taking any action until confronted by a reporter performing a flagrant act of journalism.
