Astor School is a typical Portland Public School in the University Park area of Portland close to University of Portland. It receives outstanding marks on all of its benchmarks set by the state. And it also boasts a teacher, James Clark, who is making news today for very interesting reasons.

Mr. Clark invited Occupy Portland to Occupy his classroom for an afternoon “teach in.”

The middle school teacher planned to turn over one third of a six hour school day to four members of Occupy Portland to “lecture” students and undoubtedly inculcate them with the Occupiers’ notions of sticking it to ‘the man,’ phony “social justice” pap, and whatever passing thought that occurs to them, the latest of which apparently is not wanting to pay back their school loans.
 
But the Principal apparently caught wind of handing over two hours of classroom time to Occupiers and called a halt to it after about 20 minutes.

According to the Occupy cheerleaders over at the ‘Smirk, 

Occupy Portland members who had been invited for an afternoon teach-in by a sixth-grade teacher at Astor School told me they were asked to leave the building by administrators just 20 minutes into their presentation. 

Said one of the community organizers in Occupy, Raya Cooper, 23,

“We started talking at about 12:30 p.m.,” said 23 year-old Occupy activist Raya Cooper via telephone. She said the panel believed it originally had anywhere from 45 minutes to two hours to speak. “We spoke for about 10 or 15 minutes.”

Maybe if they’d been able to stay they could have rounded out their teach-in with a few pointers on how to antagonize cops, arrest 101, and how to get other people to pay for your laziness.

I’d sure like to know the names of the other occupiers allowed into the classroom with Cooper. Wonder if any of them, a) washed, b) have arrest records,  or c) have lice or scabes.

And in response to the professional troll who comments here, here’s what the Occupiers say they talked about in their truncated presentation to the students:

The students brainstormed the following issues; Racial Discrimination, Economy, Foreclosures, Bank Fees, Price Hikes, Environment, Violence Against Women, Abuse, Global Warming, Poverty, Malnutrition, Corrupt Government, War and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. After about ten minutes, an administrator delivered a message to the teachers, and one of them respectfully interrupted. He acknowledged that Occupy Portland is a controversial subject and notified the group that the Portland School District was not comfortable with the conversation and to end the discussion. The class identified the First Amendment Right to Peacefully Assemble and noted that they were excersizing that right. When asked why the school district would feel threatened by having Occupy Portland meet with them, a young lady responded that they might be nervous the panel would “plant the seeds” of change