Right-wing parents get war lesson banned

Dam them libruuls. They're always trying to ban everything lololol.

But wait! What's this? Conservatives got a school lesson banned because it depicted staged violence?

Yes, folks, you read it here.

Schools in Appleton, Wisconsin, have a tradition. For years, to cap off the history chapter about the Civil War, 5th-graders have participated in a 20-minute mock battle, sponsored by the schools. It's just a friendly game like a sporting event. Nobody gets hurt, and everyone has a great time.

But now a group of right-wing parents has complained about this tradition because...it looks like violence.

Well, yeah. The whole point of staged violence is to look like real violence.

Did Jack Thompson move to Wisconsin when nobody was looking? Seriously, those who wanted the war reenactment banned are displaying the same sentiment that's behind the moral panic types' attempts to ban video games and "violent" music.

The right-wing parent group cited the school system's "zero tolerance" policy on "look-alike" weapons as an excuse for discontinuing the mock battle.

Lovely. Now there's moral panic types actually pushing schools for stricter enforcement of their "zero tolerance" rules. You can't make this stuff up.

The mock battle was designed to give students a feel for Civil War conditions. That's called learning, you know. And kids loved it.

But I guess the school system isn't interested in kids learning. So it promptly buckled under to the panickeers and ended the mock battle tradition.

Think of the children lololz!

(Source: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20090312/APC0101/903120521/1003/APC01)