NY teachers union hands out thousands of Obama buttons

What is going on with the educators of this country? After learning the Virginia Education Association (VEA) teachers union was encouraged to push Obama, now it is learned a New York teachers union has handed out thousands of Obama buttons to its members.

The New York Post reported:

"We don't want a school or school staff advocating for any political position or candidate to students and we don't want students feeling intimidated because they might hold a different belief or support a different candidate than their teachers."

United Federation of Teachers official LeRoy Barr told his members in a recent e-mail that union chief Randi Weingarten is fighting the DOE decision.

Officials of the union - which has endorsed Obama - said they didn't know of any schools where button-wearing teachers were told to zip it, but they said they were exploring the matter "to ensure members' rights to free speech and expression."

While department officials said the courts are on their side in the matter, many city teachers say their right to wear partisan buttons is a matter of free speech.

Several cited a landmark 1969 Supreme Court ruling involving students who planned to wear black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. It affirmed that constitutional rights don't get dropped "at the schoolhouse gate."

"It's not teaching kids to vote for Obama; rather, it's showing them the democratic process in action," said Patrick Compton, a social-studies teacher at Lafayette HS in Brooklyn, who said he has been wearing an Obama button handed out by the union.

Oh, puh-leeze! It's not teaching kids to vote for Obama? Who are they kidding? These children are like sheep with teachers who are indoctrinating them to their liberal way of thinking.

Parents had better be alert because this is going on all over the country ... not just with this election but with global warming and other liberal issues.