Posted on 03/01/2005 8:09:14 AM PST by Mears
My grandaughter,out of the blue last week,said she wished that Kerry was president.
When I asked her why,she really had no response,she's in third grade after all. She then said everyone in her class wished Kerry was president(no surprise there in a very liberal schools system).
She then said that her teacher had told them we were at war in Iraq because Bush wanted the oil. I was stunned.
I then told her that I had voted for Bush and that more people in the USA had wanted Bush for president than had wanted Kerry and that her teacher's view on the war was an opinion,not a fact.
Why on earth would a teacher say things like this to a child who thinks if the teacher said it then it must be true.
I think the answer is contained in the question.
Its the teacher you should be talking too, and not so gently.
Need feedback here---I'm at a loss for words about this!
What do your granddaughter's parents say about this?
This happened Saturday and I haven't had a chance to talk to them,alone, yet---I will,of course,but today is a snow day and the kids are home and the timing was bad prior to today.
My daughter is in the 3rd grade also and she is glad that Bush won. Go figure.
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I told my own daughter when she came back from school saying Bush is stupid to not protect nor subsidize the type of people who tell her that. They are not her parents and have only interest in their job, not her welfare, they could care less about her but of being the teacher and getting $$s, and that is why they want Bush out, to kill her, and keep their jobs.
My child (born 1994) never knew Bill Clinton's actual name until she was 6 years old. But by the time she was 3 she could recognize him and call out "The President Who Lies All The Time is on TV!" That was his name as far as she was concerned. I take cedit for that.
Parents can counteract a great deal of what the Left tries to force on kids. But it's a daily struggle. It's little things, at every mealtime and during every news broadcast. The teacher spends hours with the child 5 days a week. Countering that takes daily effort.
Home school, enough said.
Semper Fi
If the teacher had made it clear to the little ones that it was his opinion,and that they might want to talk to others and get their opinion,I wouldn't have cared,but the teacher stated it as fact.
Is she mature enough to understand what a bigot is? Her teacher is one. Her teacher wants a stable supply of oil at the price of Arab blood. She is willing to ignore the suffering of millions of Arabs so she can enjoy the benefits of luxury that a stable oil-driven economy provides: like the convenience of a quick jaunt down to Starbuck's for a decaf latte at the expense of Arab children. Bernard Lewis would call her a bigot:
"There is some justice in one charge that is frequently leveled against the United States, and more generally against the West: Middle Easterners frequently complain that the West judges them by different and lower standards than it does Europeans and Americans, both in what is expected of them and what they may expect, in terms of their economic well-being and their political freedom. They assert that Western spokesmen repeatedly overlook or even defend actions and support rulers that they would not tolerate in their own countries.
...there is nevertheless a widespread [Western] perception that there are significant differences between the advanced Western world and the rest, notably the peoples of Islam, and that these latter are in some ways different, with the tacit assumption that they are inferior. The most flagrant violations of civil rights, political freedom, and even human decency are disregarded or glossed over, and crimes against humanity, which in a European or American country would evoke a storm of outrage, are seen as normal and even acceptable.
...The underlying assumption in all this is that these people are incapable of running a democratic society and have neither concern nor capacity for human decency."
The Crisis of Islam, Bernard Lewis, p104
I'm at a loss as to what to tell you except that you must talk to her parents ASAP.
So far I have not encountered such a problem, but of course, I live in a very red county. My daughter's 1st grade class voted 17-2 for Bush for President.
Its the teacher you should be talking too, and not so gently.
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This is how I handled this situation -- a direct threat to the teacher in no uncertain terms! Right in his face too -- and it did no good, so myself and several other parents threatened a suit against the school and the maggot liberal anal orfice was finally fired. The action caught on, and we lost (thank God) three more teachers in our district that year the same way. These people are mentally sick and they have to treated that way. It works if parents say NO MORE and take direct, hard action.
LOL!!!!
My daughter was born in 1998....so the only President she knows by name is Bush. She referred to Kerry as the bad man who wanted to take President Bush's job.
binLaden is called Mud and President Bush went to war to punish mud for breaking the buildings and save people from Mud's mean cousin (saddam)
The parents were Kerry supporters,but very conservative in some ways,especially my son-in-law.
They will stand behind me on this because they did when there was another incident with this same child.
When she was in kindergarten,yes,KINDERGARTEN,a teacher told them that if you smoke you will die.She left school in tears,telling her mother that Grammy was going to die,since I smoke.
My daughter reamed them,she was so upset,especially to even get into smoking with a 5 year old.
17-2,lucky you!
B. This teacher(?) is using it's bully pulpit in a reprehensible manner and should be dismissed.
C. This teacher(?) is just a Michael Moore wannabe on a power trip with a captive audience.
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