Posted on 02/23/2003 9:02:29 AM PST by bogeybob
WABI TV reported Friday that the Maine National Guard Family Assistance Center has received about 30 complaints from children of deployed soldiers concerning Principals, Teachers and Guidance Counselors reportedly demeaning the role of their deployed parent. Some children involved are 7 to 9 years of age.
Here is a letter written to a friend of mine from the Maine Army National Guard:
"Thank you for your interest on this most troubling matter. Our Family Assistance Centers have reported cases from Aroostook County to Southern Maine. We are reluctant to give out specific schools and the individuals involved in the interest of giving the education community a chance to address the problem itself. Also, parents wanted the opportunity to pursue the issue through their local school boards first.
In all, we have over thirty complaints that name schools and individual principals, teachers and guidance counselors. If one considers that these complaints come from just the parents who attended our briefings and only from children who told their parents, we are concerned that the problem may be more widespread than we know.
We are recording the complaints, and I will personally visit these educators to express our concern as a professional organization and ask for their cooperation.
Ultimately, our main concern and first responsibility is the safety of our children during these uncertain times. Maine has a core of dedicated and professional educators, but we will challenge any individual who places our children at risk due to their own political ideologies."
Sorry.........don't buy it. I heard of localized attempts at similar "laws" or statutes (i.e. the Bay Area), etc. but I'll have to ask you to show me a link to the legislation that, effectively, makes homeschooling illegal in California. I highly, highly doubt this could happen without serious rioting happening, even in California (lived......and homeschooled.........there for many years).
You just introduced them to the RH ME House.
Send them messages of support.
For educational and research purposes only. Please refer to the actual broadcast to authenticate. I apologise for any errors in transcription.
From WABI-TV5 “News at 6” 2/21/03
Craig Colson, anchor man
Sharon Pelletier, anchor woman
Alan Grover, reporting
Major Andrew Gibson, National Guard Chaplin
LTC John Mosher, Maine Army National Guard [begin transcript]
Sharon Pelletier: “Maine’s Army National Guard has a bone to pick with some of the state’s teachers and school officials.”
Craig Colson: “Officers with the Guard’s Family Assistance Program say that some of the children of deploying soldiers are being traumatized by educators who have anti-war views. Allen Grover explains.”
Major Andrew Gibson: “… but I do know that it’s been coming from different communities and different school districts as we’ve moved through the state, ah hearing that these kids have faced this.”
Alan Grover: “What the kids are facing is hearing that their mother or father is a bad person for taking part in the confrontation with Iraq; comments that are coming from teachers. That’s according to officers with the Guard’s Family Assistance Program who’ve been traveling throughout the state this week. The officers report that such incidents are relatively few in number but that they’ve occurred in practically every region of the state.”
Major Andrew Gibson: “Some kids have even reported that … ah … teachers have said things to them, specifically, about the ah unethical nature of their parent going off to fight.”
LTC John Mosher: “Soldiers follow our instructions to coordinate with schools to let them know they will be leaving, that their child should be monitored and to keep an eye on ‘em. And when we get responses back like it’s our problem that we’re deploying or that our child is a result of an unethical act in supporting the country, in supporting the president, as a soldier, it’s unacceptable.”
Alan Grover: “Guard officials say that they are not suggesting that teachers should be censored but that point out that most of the Army kids who’ve been affected by the classroom criticism of the military are only 7 to 9 years old. The Guard says tact in such cases is not too much to ask of Maine’s teachers.”
Major Andrew Gibson: “The separation from a parent for any reason is traumatic, so it’s important for us to be sensitive to that … and to realize that these kids need support now, not necessarily to be pawns in a debate.”
Alan Grover: “Maine education commissioner Duke Albany? says he and the National Guard are discussing the allegations and he will issue an advisory to the state’s educators if that’s warranted. For now, though, Albany says that such allegations seem very out of character for Maine’s dedicated teaching force and that no parents have made any such complaints to the education department. Alan Grover, WABI TV 5 news.”
[end transcript]
Please tell everybody in the world about this (except our troops in the field).
These days, the two are mostly synonomous. And the bad thing is that most of the teachers THEMSELVES are so brainwashed that "they know not what they do".
Exactly. We sat on our butts for years while they incrementally took over, and now, they've won. Even with a Republican in the White House and Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, liberalism still grows daily. The only thing that happens now, even in the best of times, is a slight retardation of the growth of liberalism. Our government, our education system, and our media are all too far gone. I don't know how it will all play out in the end, but the left won. All we can do is protect our own families, influence those who are within our personal circles, and pray for God to have mercy on this nation. We can keep fighting, but the war is lost just as surely as Betamax lost to VHS.
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Need I say more.
My God, if this is happening in Maine , what must it be like in California?
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