Brokeback Buford: Tax Dollars At Work

by John Ruskin

It's a weekday between 8:00am and 4:00pm. Do you know what your kids are watching? At Ashburn Community Elementary School, they're watching the gay cowboy flick "Brokeback Mountain". And 12-year-old Jessica Turner is suing the Chicago Board of Education because she was forced to watch it. (see WorldNetDaily story here)

Jessica's "Brokeback teacher" (Ms. Buford), like so many of her colleagues, seems incapable of understanding the difference between "teaching" and "movie watching". Let's not even mention her/their failure in responsibility, professionalism, child welfare, and enforcement of the law which prohibits 12 year-olds from going to the movie theater to see such a film.

But the coup de grace of Brokeback Buford's educational technique is her Vegas knockoff - telling the children: "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class." How appropriate. Along with suing for psychological distress, perhaps Jessica should sue for failure of the public education system to provide her a teacher. At least one that can do more than push the "play" button on a DVD.

Your billions of tax dollars hard at work.