Outspoken teachers.

• Position: Editor's Note - Editorial

On June 11, at the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School on Cape Cod, there was an assembly for the graduating class. As part of that ceremony, a school official was honoring six seniors who were about to enter the Armed Services.

At that point, two teachers, Marybeth Verani and Adeline Koscher, stood up in silent protest and Verani held an "End War" sign.

Afterward, a leading Boston TV station, WBZ, ran a report on the incident that was astonishingly biased against the teachers. In the segment, Verani says, referring to the students in the assembly, "I'm showing them, in a democracy, how to express dissent." The WBZ reporter then adds: "Many believe she needs a lesson in supporting her students."

According to the Cape Cod Times , lots of students and parents called on the school district to fire the teachers.

Soon, on the Web, a virtual lynch mob formed, and a Massachusetts police website referred to one of the teachers as a "cunt."

Verani told the Cape Cod Times that she and Koscher were trying "to address the expansion of military recruitment of children in our schools." She added: "I want them to be home, and alive and well, and going to college, and dating, and having kids, and coaching Little League."

Verani and Koscher were put on paid administrative leave until the end of the school year on June 24, the Cape Cod Times reports. And Verani will be suspended without pay for ten days at the start of the upcoming semester.

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