Some Maine Teachers Traumatizing Students of Deployed Soldiers

WABI- TV Bangor Maine | February 21, 2003 | 6 PM News

[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."

[judicial meanz]

I am so mad I coudl spit. A lot of folks I know in the guard are deployed, and some have been gone for as long as almost 2 years now in this war.

The fact these arrogant, high nasal, sandal wearing, neo socialist, stupid glasses on the forward end of the nose wearing freaks are trying to program the kids of fine young men and women at war just makes me want to leave convention and manners behind and show them the capability of the American fighting man to protect his family and children.

They had better remember one MAJOR thing. These guys are fighting this war to give their kids a better life. The kids are central to their beliefs.

This wont go away, trust me.

[Paulie]

What's the difference between teachers that remain silent in the face of an outrageously corrupt union and NEA who's overtly anti-American and anti-Christian, and members of the peaceful religion remaining silent in the face of terrorism and other attacks on the US and its culture?

Answer: teachers don't dance in the streets.

[Mister Baredog]

California teachers unions were recently able to get homeschooling only legal if the teacher(parent) has a teaching certificate. This is how they plan to keep their captives on the plantation!

[Lauratealeaf]

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.

I have run up against some like her before. They are usually liberal and have had a lot of students whose parents have not been very involved in their lives. Still, that is no excuse for their attempts to be Mom and Dad.

[mom-7]

Teachers in public schools--mind control.

[Sunshine Sister]

My sentiments exactly. Talk about low life scumbags! There are not enough words in the English language to describe these dirt balls.

[Thud]

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[litany_of_lies]

The station link is only the tease, not the story itself, but even that's enough to make your blood boil.

[StriperSniper]

Yup.

These "educators" are guilty of child abuse and need to be brought up on charges ASAP.

Parents are charged for less.

let's hope there is a national registry to prevent these teachers from moving to another state and leaving their sorry record behind them.

Sounds good.

[Tamzee]

Yet another rotten example of how badly conservatives need an ACLU that stands up for OUR rights. This is a clear, vicious case of emotionally abusing children and violating their and the parents' civil liberties.

[bogeybob]

No, no. The station link runs the story at the top of the news as a headline, and then runs the whole story just before the sports. Skip ahead with your player a few minutes into the clip. It is all there!

Don't ask me why they headline it and then run it as the last news story before the sports. Probably a tape problem.

[Lauratealeaf]

This kind of thing actually happened during the Gulf War. Some friends of ours, both Mom and Dad deployed. The Mom was a nurse and the Dad was a brigade commander and they arranged for one of the grandmothers to come to stay with their two sons so they could continue to go to the same school.

Time Magazine came along and was allowed by the school to interview and take pictures of the two boys (who were in elementary school) and they put their pictures on the cover of the rag. The parents were horrified when they found out and were very fearful because of the national exposure of their children.

They hadn't given permission for Time Magazine to do such a thing and neither had the grandmother. The school had taken it upon themselves to allow the reporters and photographers to interview and take photos of the boys.

It was very upsetting for the family, the grandmother and the kids. I think when the couple returned from the gulf they took their sons out of the public school and put them in private school.

[litany_of_lies]

My Media Player for Mac may be "less the perfect" (read "FUBAR")--but a 16 meg file normally isn't more than about a minute long.

[TigersEye]

This clearly has the potential to undermine national security as well. Word of this will certainly get to the troops and degrade morale.

[jigsaw]

Think I'll forward this story to O'Reilly.

Good!   Being such a dedicated ex-teacher, he's likely to pursue it!

I'll send it to him also.

[OpusatFR]

Hi Lauratealeaf!

Have been mailing to Sen. Warner and Sen. McCain. Have to get some more addys and will continue. Nice part is that with the web, everything gets published. The left cannot keep their nastiness a secret and get by with it.

[litany_of_lies]

Although your friends' experience during the Gulf War is a different problem from the one WABI has exposed (traumatizing now vs. publicizing then), it raises a very big issue in this very different war:

The media should NOT be naming names of soldiers or their hometowns in ANY of their reports (this should have been true during the Gulf War, as you have indicated, but it's even more important now). There are too many Islamic sleepers and "citizen traitors" in this country. Anyone named stands a good chance of having his/her family and/or friends, employer, etc. harassed or worse by the terrorists and "peace activists." This isn't WWII, where there was very little domestic insurrection, or even Vietnam, when the protestors were generally the same age as the combatants, and there was a tiny shred of decency in the antiwar movement (they might spit on soldiers, but they wouldn't take it out on their families, at least not that I'm aware of).

All such decency and civility are gone. PLUS, terrorists and terrorists wannabes will want revenge, and will go after soldiers' families, especially of those who are heroic in the war effort.

[Lauratealeaf]

The left cannot keep their nastiness a secret and get by with it.

Not anymore! And they can't stand that fact!

[Rebelbase]

Bump

[jaz.357]

Weapons Grade A-HOLES!