Liberal Teacher Disallows Neal Boortz As Source

[LadyLiberty]

I am listening to Neal Boortz, who is exposing a (local to his area) public high school teacher for disallowing her students to use his FairTax book as a source on a paper she assigned them to write about the FairTax, alleging that Neal Boortz is not a credible source 

She however is allowing them to use a journalist who writes for the NYTimes as a source...who of course is anti-FairTax and a liberal.

As a side note, this high school is the high school my son will be going to.

Like hell I'd let her get away with that. I'd be in her face, and I know some people who will be.

The paper obviously must be a "persuasive argument" essay...and to disallow the usage of anyone for that to present your argument is fascist.

What  a load of crap 

[Rebel]

http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html

ANOTHER WONDERFUL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHER

It is no secret that I am not a fan of government education. Not to rehash the whole thing here, but the idea that loving parents would turn the most precious things in their lives – their children – over to the government to be educated astounds me. If you can trace the decline in our country to any one thing, I would put government schools right there at the top of the list.

At any rate --- let's just say that I'm not at the top of the Christmas Card list for too many government school teachers, and that would include one Lana Snellgrove at the Peachtree Ridge High School, one of the wonderful Gwinnett County Georgia government schools.

According to an email we received from one of Ms. Snellgrove's students, she assigned her students the task of writing a research/persuasive essay. The topic was meant to be controversial. One student chose to write about the FairTax. She was informed by Ms. Snellgrove that The FairTax Book could not be cited as a source of information on the FairTax because one of the book's co-authors, (that would be me) is not a credible source. This student tried to explain to the government employee that The FairTax Book was one of the most reliable and direct sources of information available to her. The teacher wasn't swayed. She insisted that I am not a credible source and that the student had to find information on the FairTax elsewhere.

This is way past amazing. The FairTax Book, written by yours truly and Congressman John Linder, the author of H.R. 25, The FairTax Act, debuts at Number 1 on the New York Times Bestsellers list .. and this government school teacher says that the book is not a credible source of information about the FairTax? Does this make sense on any level?

The student tells me that she is going to cite my book in her essay anyway ... and let Lana Snellgrove respond as she pleases. We'll be hearing back from the student on this, so let's see if Ms. Snellgrove stops being a government employee and starts being an actual teacher for a few days.

Oh .. an update. I'm now informed that Ms. Snellgrove did provide this student with what she (Ms. Snellgrove) determined to be a reliable and credible source for information about the FairTax. The source is an anti-FairTax article written by one Joel Slemrod and published in the New York Times. No surprise there. Slemrod says in that article that there is not one reputable economist of any political stripe that would support the FairTax. Tell that to the economists who support the FairTax, like Lawrence Koltikoff, the chairman of Boston University's Economics department. This is what Ms. Snellgrove decides is a credible source for information on the FairTax, not a book co-authored by the Congressman who wrote the bill.

What do you think, folks? Is this teacher just taking out her dislike for me on one of her students? I wonder if she would like to invite me to appear before her class and make her case then and there that I am not a credible source of information about the FairTax?

And before we move on to something else, let's recognize how good it is that some high school students out there – probably more than I suspect – are aware of the FairTax and would like to see it in place before they start their working careers.

[LadyLiberty]

Evidently, the teacher told the student they could use Joel Slimrod for the essay...who wrote an article against the FairTax in the NYTimes 3 years ago...falsely saying that there is not one renowned economist who supports the FairTax