G.I. Slur

New York Post ^ | February 22, 2005 | David Andreatta

[DJ Taylor]

The city Department of Education, red-faced over Brooklyn sixth-graders who slammed a GI with demoralizing anti-Iraq-war letters as part of a school assignment, will send the 20-year-old private a letter of apology today.

[DJ Taylor]

Something really needs to be done about this. Any suggestions?

[rocksblues]

A thorough investigation into the teacher that collected and the forwarded these hateful messages would be a good start.

[bahblahbah]

Kill liberals? I swear they're teaching too much about multiculturalism and putting condoms on bananas and not enough about our own heritage and the essentials of reading writing and arithmetic.

[roylene]

O'Reilly just had some teachers talking about this ... the (dare I say idiot) eighth grade teacher said she gave her class an opportunity to write Pres. Bush about Iraq and she 100% of the kids wrote letters that said 'bring home the troops'.
Aww .. come on .... that is not even statistically possible. I would believe in the Easter Bunny before I would believe her.

[sageb1]

How about flooding the Dept. Of Education and the teachers' unions with letters?

The teachers O'Reilly had on tonight are full of beans. The kids aren't getting their liberal views from rap. They're getting them from the teachers.

[Clemenza]

NY City is a hotbed of antiwar sentiment.

[sageb1]

She probably had them sign form letters.

[TankerKC]

that is not even statistically possible.

Sure it is...depending on the neighborhood.

[sageb1]

I remember when I was a kid and we were learning about how to compose "friendly" letters and business letters, we did things like write to the chambers of commerce for each state requesting informational pamphlets. Now, the teachers are turning our kids into little left-wing activists.

[Cultural Jihad]

"We are sorry that we are subsidizing the insidious activities of a indoctinator who instills hatred of America into the minds of our students." (but not really sorry enough to do anything about it.)

[cubreporter]

Correct. We should be teaching our children reading, writing and arithmetic. Instead we are teaching them everything about all the wrong things in life that they should be getting at home and not in the classroom. These children were guided by the teacher and so I put the blame on her. She should not be allowed to teach if she is going to teach hatred.

[Kaslin]

In the defense of the teacher I have to say that she said she has given her students the choice of either writing possitive or negative letters.

[DJ Taylor]

"Teacher Alex Kunhardt had his students write Jacobs as part of a social-studies assignment."

For what it's worth, the teacher is male.

[rocksblues]

I read excerpts of these letters. There is no way that a 11/12/13 year old kid would have these kind of thoughts about our military!!!!!!

The letters were either written by the parents or encouraged/enhanced by the teacher!

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I live in Maryland, a thoroughly blue state, and a lot of people are upset over a NEW school grading policy, where, get this, the kids will be graded on ACHIEVEMENT. Can you believe that?

[DJ Taylor]

Where did you find excerpts from these letters? I would like to view them.

[rocksblues]

They were in the NY Post. If not on line I can scan and forward the page to you.

[DJ Taylor]

Thanks

[roylene]

Well, its nice that you are defending the teacher .. but 100% paleeze.

[HighlyOpinionated]

"If I were in Iraq and read that the youth of our nation doesn't want me to be there and doesn't believe in what I'm doing, it would mess up my head," Jacobs said.

"I want to think these letters were coached by the teacher or the parents of these children," Jacobs said in an interview from Camp Casey, Korea.

"It boggles my mind that children could think this stuff."


I think the young soldier hit the proverbial nail on the head. The children were COACHED.

Demoralizing letters and comments are NOT good etiquette even if a person doesn't particularly support the military. BESIDES, it's BAD MANNERS.

What to do? Get us the address of the Principal and the Teachers' Union and let US write a few letters.

My mom and dad always said the only reason people curse is because they don't have a large enough vocabulary. I have a huge vocabulary and I'd like to use it to chastise a teacher who has shown is lack of scruples and manners.

Freepmail me with an address or two.