Post by foxfire on Mar 28, 2015 16:30:42 GMT -5
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Lawmakers on Wednesday passed a resolution formally encouraging student participation in state government even as the legislators were being lampooned nationally for mocking what started as a civics lesson for fourth-graders.
The action in the House of Representatives follows the much-criticized and publicized debate over the students' effort to name the red-tailed hawk the official state raptor. As the students from Lincoln Akerman School watched from the House gallery March 12, one lawmaker invoked abortion and others called the students' effort a waste of time. One suggested the state would next be naming an official state hot dog.
The House defeated the kids' bill.
Blowback was swift. National media wrote about the comments, editorial writers blasted lawmakers, comedian John Oliver shredded them on his HBO show and the satirical website The Onion weighed in, too. The Republican speaker of the House requested an apology — so far not forthcoming — from the legislator who said the hawk rips its prey apart "limb by limb" and would make a better mascot for Planned Parenthood.
School Principal Mark Deblois said the abortion reference went over the students' heads, but the joke about the state hot dog stung. He said Wednesday that he's received hundreds of emails from around the world praising the students and encouraging them to stay involved.
news.yahoo.com/hampshire-lawmakers-honor-students-raptor-debacle-154257093--politics.html
The action in the House of Representatives follows the much-criticized and publicized debate over the students' effort to name the red-tailed hawk the official state raptor. As the students from Lincoln Akerman School watched from the House gallery March 12, one lawmaker invoked abortion and others called the students' effort a waste of time. One suggested the state would next be naming an official state hot dog.
The House defeated the kids' bill.
Blowback was swift. National media wrote about the comments, editorial writers blasted lawmakers, comedian John Oliver shredded them on his HBO show and the satirical website The Onion weighed in, too. The Republican speaker of the House requested an apology — so far not forthcoming — from the legislator who said the hawk rips its prey apart "limb by limb" and would make a better mascot for Planned Parenthood.
School Principal Mark Deblois said the abortion reference went over the students' heads, but the joke about the state hot dog stung. He said Wednesday that he's received hundreds of emails from around the world praising the students and encouraging them to stay involved.
news.yahoo.com/hampshire-lawmakers-honor-students-raptor-debacle-154257093--politics.html
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