Coney Island principal bans another ‘USA song’ from graduation

[jimnyc]

This woman obviously needs to go. Even if unapproved, they are children, and she shouldn't be denying them such things. And "too grown up" for them? I call BS on that too, it's a song, and carrying flags!!! At best, she has a power trip that isn't good for the kids.

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A Coney Island principal has put the kibosh on patriotism — again.

Greta Hawkins caused a furor when she barred her PS 90 kindergartners from singing “God Bless the USA” at their graduation ceremony in 2012.

Now she has stopped pre-K kids from singing “Stand Up for the Red, White and Blue” at their June 19 moving-up ceremony.

A class of 4-year-olds was rehearsing the song — which they would belt out while marching into the auditorium waving mini-American flags — when Hawkins (top) halted the patriotic parade.

“You didn’t ask permission to do it,” Hawkins scolded the teachers.

Stunned and disappointed, teachers said the simple, rhyming processional was sung to cheers at a pre-K ceremony several years ago.

“It’s a nice, rousing song,” one said. “The parents got up and clapped and yahooed. The kids waved their flags, and it just got everything going.”

With a bouncy beat, the song begins:

Stand up, stand up, for the red, white and blue.

Stand up, stand up, our flag is passing through.

Our country is our land of free, our home of law and liberty.

Stand up, stand up, for the red, white and blue.

Hawkins insisted her refusal to allow the song has nothing to do with patriotism.

In an e-mail to The Post, Hawkins said the song was not on a list the teachers had submitted.

The kids will perform several other tunes during the ceremony, including “You are my Sunshine” and “What a Miracle Am I.”

“Teachers were reminded in meetings and in communiques not to add or remove from what was already approved weeks ago,” Hawkins wrote.

Hawkins also nixed the little flags, referring to them as unapproved “materials.”

Kids stand for the Pledge of Allegiance each morning at PS 90. But in September, Hawkins eliminated the daily singing of “America the Beautiful.”

In 2012, when Hawkins silenced “God Bless the USA,” the Lee Greenwood ballad also known as “Proud to be an American,” she reportedly told teachers it might “offend other cultures.” PS 90 is full of immigrants from Mexico, Pakistan, India, Russia and elsewhere.

She later told Department of Education higher-ups the lyrics were “too grown up” for 5-year-olds, though she left Justin Bieber’s flirty “Baby” on the program. The DOE had her yank that one, too.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/coney-island-principal-bans-another-usa-song-from-graduation/

[Gaffer]

Nothing like a liberal on a power trip.

[tailfins]

As Paul Harvey used to say, "And now the rest of the story":


Greta Hawkins accused of bashing fifth-grader at PS 90 in spat over cell phone at school


Greta Hawkins, principal of Public School 90, was previously disciplined for making improper racial and religious comments at a staff meeting.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/coney-island-elementary-school-principal-eyed-kid-slap-article-1.1095387#ixzz349JwHVzb

[gabosaurus]

Nothing like a liberal on a power trip.

How do you know she is not a conservative Republican?
Oh, you don't. Just attempting to crawl up someone's butt, as usual. Do you ever have an original thought?

[Little-Acorn]

Hawkins insisted her refusal to allow the song has nothing to do with patriotism.


She got that part right.

[aboutime]

How do you know she is not a conservative Republican?
Oh, you don't. Just attempting to crawl up someone's butt, as usual. Do you ever have an original thought?


gabby. NOT ONE OF US HERE could every confuse someone like YOU, with anyone else who acts exactly like you. Pretending to know everything, be in control of everything, and only IMPRESSING yourself.

Seems like LIBERAL MENTAL ILLNESS can't be hidden. No matter how hard you try to CHANGE the subject.

[tailfins]

How do you know she is not a conservative Republican?
Oh, you don't. Just attempting to crawl up someone's butt, as usual. Do you ever have an original thought?

Look at her photo; look where she is; look at her job; look at what she hates (white people). She's obviously not a Republican. However, she is likely not a Democrat either. She seems more likely to be part of the Socialist Workers Party or similar organization.

[Gaffer]

Look at her photo; look where she is; look at her job; look at what she hates (white people). She's obviously not a Republican. However, she is likely not a Democrat either. She seems more likely to be part of the Socialist Workers Party or similar organization.


There's a difference between the socialist workers party and the democrat party?

[tailfins]

There's a difference between the socialist workers party and the democrat party?

They use different buzzwords. Here's their newspaper: http://www.themilitant.com/index.shtml

[Voted4Reagan]

This woman obviously needs to go. Even if unapproved, they are children, and she shouldn't be denying them such things. And "too grown up" for them? I call BS on that too, it's a song, and carrying flags!!! At best, she has a power trip that isn't good for the kids.

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A Coney Island principal has put the kibosh on patriotism — again.

Greta Hawkins caused a furor when she barred her PS 90 kindergartners from singing “God Bless the USA” at their graduation ceremony in 2012.

Now she has stopped pre-K kids from singing “Stand Up for the Red, White and Blue” at their June 19 moving-up ceremony.

A class of 4-year-olds was rehearsing the song — which they would belt out while marching into the auditorium waving mini-American flags — when Hawkins (top) halted the patriotic parade.

“You didn’t ask permission to do it,” Hawkins scolded the teachers.

Stunned and disappointed, teachers said the simple, rhyming processional was sung to cheers at a pre-K ceremony several years ago.

“It’s a nice, rousing song,” one said. “The parents got up and clapped and yahooed. The kids waved their flags, and it just got everything going.”

With a bouncy beat, the song begins:

Stand up, stand up, for the red, white and blue.

Stand up, stand up, our flag is passing through.

Our country is our land of free, our home of law and liberty.

Stand up, stand up, for the red, white and blue.

Hawkins insisted her refusal to allow the song has nothing to do with patriotism.

In an e-mail to The Post, Hawkins said the song was not on a list the teachers had submitted.

The kids will perform several other tunes during the ceremony, including “You are my Sunshine” and “What a Miracle Am I.”

“Teachers were reminded in meetings and in communiques not to add or remove from what was already approved weeks ago,” Hawkins wrote.

Hawkins also nixed the little flags, referring to them as unapproved “materials.”

Kids stand for the Pledge of Allegiance each morning at PS 90. But in September, Hawkins eliminated the daily singing of “America the Beautiful.”

In 2012, when Hawkins silenced “God Bless the USA,” the Lee Greenwood ballad also known as “Proud to be an American,” she reportedly told teachers it might “offend other cultures.” PS 90 is full of immigrants from Mexico, Pakistan, India, Russia and elsewhere.

She later told Department of Education higher-ups the lyrics were “too grown up” for 5-year-olds, though she left Justin Bieber’s flirty “Baby” on the program. The DOE had her yank that one, too.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/coney-island-principal-bans-another-usa-song-from-graduation/

Greta Hawkins is a FAR left lunatic with a totally radical agenda.

Met her many times... She kept breaking her copy machine.

Total Douche Nugget...

[aboutime]

https://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/socialist-party-of-america-releases-the-names-of-70-democrat-members-of-congress-who-are-members-of-their-caucus/

[jimnyc]

Greta Hawkins is a FAR left lunatic with a totally radical agenda.

Met her many times... She kept breaking her copy machine.

Total Douche Nugget...

Well, I know you live right there, so you would know better than anyone else here. If you google her name you'll find she is just one big ball of controversy. They need to toss this idiot aside.

[Voted4Reagan]

Well, I know you live right there, so you would know better than anyone else here. If you google her name you'll find she is just one big ball of controversy. They need to toss this idiot aside.

Cant...She's a TENURED IDIOT.

Short of criminal activity or fraud or deliberately harming a Child... she'll be there till she retires.

She'll have to have the worst test scores in the city to be re-assigned.

[Abbey Marie]

Cant...She's a TENURED IDIOT.

Short of criminal activity or fraud or deliberately harming a Child... she'll be there till she retires.

She'll have to have the worst test scores in the city to be re-assigned.

I am willing to bet that if she was white, and she hit a black student in the mouth, she'd be gone in a heart beat. Tenured or not.

[aboutime]

I am willing to bet that if she was white, and she hit a black student in the mouth, she'd be gone in a heart beat. Tenured or not.


Abbey. You and I, and many others here know...You are absolutely right. But, in our politically correct, insulted, offended, English Word usage World of STUPIDITY, that creates terrorists, and Racists for daring to say such things.

We are now...jointly, and fully qualified to be targeted as RACISTS.

See how it works?

The very second You, or I present TRUTH, in any of it's disturbing forms.
The conversation can be quickly, and decisively ENDED with one word....RACIST!