Posted on 04/01/2018 7:53:52 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Middle school students were assigned to write letters to congress promoting gun control
Hampton, GA – A 7th Grade social studies teacher tasked with teaching his students about Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, recently gave his students an assignment to write a letter to Congress supporting gun control.
Blue Lives Matter obtained a copy of the assignment.
The assignment “topic” was listed as “You are trying to persuade lawmakers to have stricter gun laws to help prevent another school shooting from taking place.”
“For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States. The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States. Your letter should contain at least five complete sentences. Make sure that you use proper grammatical skills when writing your letter,” read the assignment given out by social studies teacher Corey Sanders to his students at Hampton Middle School.
William Lee told Blue Lives Matter that his son brought the assignment home from school and showed it to him.
“I asked him what he had for homework that night, and he said he had to write a paper on gun control,” said Lee, who is a law enforcement officer in another county from where his son goes to school.
“I said uh oh – let me see the assignment,” the father said.
After reading his son’s homework assignment from Sanders, Lee went into the Google classroom and checked the assignments.
“I looked at it, and I told my son, ‘no, you’re not doing that assignment,’” Lee said. “Then I emailed his teacher the next day and told him that my son would not be writing that.”
The teacher wrote back to Lee and told him that it was fine, and that he wouldn’t mark off his son for not turning it in, he said.
“The first thing I wondered was what was their intent with these letters,” Lee said. “Were they planning to mail them?”
“And then I’d like to know how this fits into my son’s actual curriculum. The Georgia Standard of Excellence – which is what the Henry County curriculum is based on – says that my 7th grader is supposed to be studying Asia, Africa and Middle East in social studies,” Lee said. “There’s nothing in the course curriculum about gun control.”
Lee said that a number of other parents of his son’s classmates expressed concern about the assignment; however, they hadn’t found out about it until after their children had completed it and turned it in.
“Where are these letters now?” Lee asked.
“Why are they giving this as an assignment? It has nothing to do with the curriculum that they’re supposed to be following,” the angry father said.
He said this isn’t the first recent example of teachers incorporating their personal political agendas into their teaching at Hampton Middle School.
“What concerns me is this comes on the heels of another incident with a 6th grade teacher who was recently recorded by a 12-year-old student,” Lee explained. “The teacher went on a rant, calling Trump a racist and referencing Rodney King. And that was a 6th grade history teacher in the same school.”
Blue Lives Matter reached out to Sanders, the teacher who made the gun control letter history assignment, via email, but did not receive a response.
Messages were left for Principal Purvis Jackson at Hampton Middle School, and for Henry County Schools Superintendent Dr. Mary Elizabeth Davis, seeking comment, but they have not responded.
Got to thank the newspaper for letting us know. Now write letters with the opposite.
Georgia values.
The one that got caught. This crap is happening all over the country and it’s going to get worse as more snowflakes become teachers. Parents must be vigilant because these leftist teachers spend a lot of time with your kids and we know how liberalism is their religion.
Waiting for that ONE teacher to have their indoctrinated students write Congress about stopping abortion violence.
Bzzzttt!! Fail. Did you not read the instructions? “Your letter should contain at least five complete sentences.”
One tactic I can think of would be to have additional empty chairs brought into every class in school with paper dolls representing the missing students and friends murdered by abortions. Kids would have to sit by them in every class all day long.
Don’t you just know the Left would howl over attacking their hellish sacrament that way?
They did something like that in our school to support a teacher’s union scheme for more money. Many of the parents who found out about it were furious. We sent letters to the local conservative radio station and the newspaper. We also sent the form letter to the targets including the instructions. Then we got the lawyers involved. It was only a matter of days and the school super intended caved and all the form letters collected and destroyed by the school district lawyers. The parents and their lawyers then forced an apology from the school district. We have never had another incident like that again.
Time for a writing assignment for patriotic parents to their school boards.
Include a copy of COTUS. Ask what other SJW issues students have, are or will write such letters about. Ask what are repercussions for a public school sponsoring political activism. Ask if the school will ask students to write against abortion, homosexual marriage and illegal immigration, and if not, why not. Copy their lead attorney.
Good idea. Take it even farther, place empty chairs on the playgrounds.
I'd love to see just one kid write something like this in response to such an assignment:
Dear Congresscritter:
The right to self defense is a Natural Right. It is the Natural Right the founders claimed to justify their action to break away from England. As a Natural Right, it is inalienable. That means it can neither be given nor taken away. Self defense includes any and all means of defending one’s self, and that most definitely includes weapons. Self defense is not limited by society because it is an inalienable right. It cannot be given or taken away. So this means you have the right to use a bat, a knife, a sword, a pistol, a rifle.There you go; that’s all there is to it. You have an individual Natural Right to defend yourself. It cannot be given or taken away – period. This right to defend yourself includes the right to use weapons to do so, and that includes firearms. And this is exactly what the founders meant when they wrote the Second Amendment: that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Free Regards,
Your Constituent, Johnny
Plagiarized from The Road to Concord, FUNDAMENTALS OF NATURAL LAW: The Natural Right to Self Defense.
In our district the vote is held on a school day. Up until recently it was held at the school. every budget passed.
Now we have to go to another place to vote, but those moms are primed!
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Dear Congress.
My teacher said I should write to you concerning the scourge that is guns in the hands of We the People. My teacher and the school administration thinks that this is highly inappropriate and dangerous and so they want these guns removed. Apparently when a kid, like myself, makes such an appeal they think that you’ll become suddenly energetic and do as we are asking you to do. They are also having me write to you because they are presently working to further my education and, boy, are they ever!
For myself I can only ask: please let me have a gun too, so I can shoot back.
Regards
Kenny
Someone stop this child abuse.
Dear Senator Grabotsky,
I am a strong believer in gun control. That is the reason I go to the range at least once a month. BTW, there are too many guns protecting you on Capital Hill. My teacher requires at least “five sentences” in this letter. Have a nice day.
Teaching kids civic duties and being involved in politics is a good thing. However, since it’s a public school funded by taxpayer funds, the assignment should be writing a letter to Congress supporting gun control OR supporting gun rights...send a note home in advance to notify the parents of the assignment so they are aware and allow for an opt out.
I believe this is the same indoctrination center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdYazwA2iMU&feature=youtu.be
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