This school is on the fringe of Park Slope, in an area with a sizable Muslim population. It is a few blocks from a mosque identified after 9/11 as a source of terrorist funding as well as bookstores carrying Islamo-terrorist propaganda. Also, the local Carvel store owner was charged with money laundering for terrorist organizations.
Despite the Board of Ed description, it isn't considered first rate academically. Some Park Slope kids take the subway to schools in Manhattan rather than attend.
As for Park Slope generally, it is Loony Left country. But losing 12 firefighters -- the entire squad of the local fire house -- on 9/11 definitely sobered up a lot of people.
I deplore the teacher's judgment in sending these letters and it confirms my gloomy view of NYC social studies teachers. Still, picketing won't teach these kids the lessons they need to learn. A few soldiers coming to the school as speakers would be a great idea, though. Anything to penetrate the bubble and expose the students to a point of view they rarely if ever hear.
I disagree. Most Park Slopers (and I know several) went right back to their loony left selves within weeks of 9/11. 9/11 DIDN'T CHANGE SH-T! Most of those firefighters if they lived in the city lived on Staten Island and in certain nabes in Queens. The left-wing yuppie douchebags in their million dollar brownstones who love to brag about "diversity" but send their kids to private schools filled with whites and Asiatics are the same as they were pre-9/11. The same goes for Manhattan.
Go down to Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights if you want to meet some REAL Americans, despite the influx of Muslims into the former.
Park Slope is a beautiful neighborhood, but let's not kids ourselves regarding the symphathies of its inhabitants.