Florida school systems ban peace group

I get scoffed at by conservatives who deny that American schools are overrun by right-wing fanatics. I know I don't remember ever having a liberal school principal, but conservatives think I'm making that up too.

Schools' extremism is confirmed again by what's going on now in Florida. The county school districts of Manatee and Sarasota counties have puffed out an Allowed Cloud against a peace organization's efforts to educate high school students about alternatives to joining the military and having their heads blown off in Bush's war.

The schools allow military recruiters on campus - which Bush's rogue No Child Left Behind law forces schools to do - but they won't allow the Coalition of Concerned Patriots, a peace group. The school systems' excuse is that the Coalition of Concerned Patriots aren't providing information about postsecondary opportunities. But this is patently untrue, because the organization provides information about the Job Corps and Peace Corps.

This isn't the first time that the notoriously right-wing schools of Florida have pulled such a shenanigan. A couple years back, the Pinellas County school system banned Veterans for Peace from visiting with students.

Since the No Child Left law forces schools to allow military recruiters on campus, shouldn't there also be a law to make schools allow peace groups on campus? No Child Left is a lot like the fuckheaded Solomon Amendment that passed during the Contract With America and punishes colleges for having the "wrong" politics.

(Source: http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2007d/121407/121407e.htm)