Teachers as terrorists?

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From: Deb Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 16:24:09 PST 

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:24:09 -0800
From: Deb Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Teachers as terrorists?

>March 2, 2004
>Education Chief Again Apologizes for 'Terrorist' Remark
>By SAM DILLON
>
> WASHINGTON, March 1 -- Education Secretary Rod Paige was hoping for a
>friendly exchange of views about a sweeping federal education law when, a
>month
>ago, he offered to fly 50 of the nation's best teachers to Washington at
>government expense.
> But as the teachers gathered here on Monday, many said they were still
>feeling the sting of Mr. Paige's remark that the nation's largest teachers
>union
>was a "terrorist organization" and were eager to give the secretary an earful
>about what they said were arbitrary provisions in the federal law, known as
>No Child Left Behind.
> Dr. Paige quickly used the opportunity to apologize, again, for his
> words
>last week.
>.
>.
>.
>. Participants in the meeting said that one teacher, Elspeth Corrigan
>Moore, a librarian at Memorial High School in West New York, N.J., wept as
>she
>discussed Dr. Paige's comparison of the teachers union to terrorists. Ms.
>Moore
>said after the meeting that because her school had a direct line of sight to
>downtown Manhattan, she and many students could see the destruction of the
>World
>Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
> "I watched it burn, and I smelled it burn, so I take the word terrorist
>personally," she said.
>
>Full article at:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/politics/02PAIG.html

Deborah Hunt
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