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."
This is so true. In addition I think that Laura Bush needs to be informed. Right after 911 Laura made some appearances on television suggesting to parents and teachers to be sure to let their children know that they were loved and that they were safe. At our DoDDS school in Stuttgart, Germany every teacher got a special message from Laura Bush instructing us about ways to help protect the children from the trauma. I am sure she would be interested in this case. That teachers would ever do such a thing is despicable!
Can you imagine a soldier getting a letter from their nine year old son saying "Mr. Dolt says that you are a bad man for going to war."!
Oh, no they aren't!
Homeschool. If you EVER get wind that your public-schooled children are being subjected to this sort of total crap, yank 'em out of that Indoctrination Center as fast as you can run and homeschool them. It's perfectly legal in all 50 states. If you do........do NOT register with the local school board or with the State. Period. No discussion on this topic, just take my word for it (father of seven, homeschoolers for over 18 years.......long before it was fashionable........and in numerous States).
One of my best friends - a good and decent woman, for a liberal - is a teacher, and I am absolutely STUNNED by what she believes should be her role in her students' lives. On one occassion, I explained to her that teachers are not parents, and that they should not be attempting to commandeer the responsibilities of parenthood. She looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears.
The newscast is still on the WABI TV website. Go to wabi-tv.com and click on "watch WABI TV News". It is a 16 meg download. I used Winamp to view. It is all right there to see!
These specific incidences should be investigated and the guilty teacher exposed. They need to have their credentials revoked permanently.
Unfortunately, the families left behind not only have the emotional turmoil of dealing with a loved one in harms way - but they also have to contend with leftist scare tactics, aimed at destroying this great country. Plain and simple, public schools are an American disaster.
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