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Jay Bennish Is The Tip Of The Iceberg

Ross Kaminsky - 3/25/2006

For those of who haven't heard the story, Overland High School teacher Jay Bennish was reinstated Friday after a brief suspension following remarks comparing President Bush to Hitler. If you want to hear the 21 minute recording of an anti-American hate screed posing as a high school geography class, click HERE. It's well worth a listen. You won't believe your ears.

Bennish is an unreconstructed socialist. He hates capitalism and his own country. He is absolutely unrepentant about his behavior, as demonstrated in no small part by his choice of attorney: David Lane, the same man who is defending Ward Churchill.

Unfortunately, the only apparent result of the events surrounding Bennish, given his free pass on his actions, is to tell teachers that behavior like this will go unpunished and maybe even get some free time on TV...well worth getting a haircut for, as Bennish did.

While Jay Bennish is a problem for his students, the real problem is that Bennish is a symptom of a much bigger problem: he is more the rule than the exception within our public schools.

A perfect example comes from an incredible letter from another Colorado teacher, one Jim Hicklin, at Pagosa Springs High School. He wrote the following e-mail to a staffer at the Colorado Department of Education. It's nearly as stunning at Mr. Bennish's tirade, and represents some of the best argument yet for competition in public schools, the use of vouchers, and the unseen damage that public schools and their left-leaning union lackeys do to our children.