Posted on 02/15/2013 3:55:59 PM PST by wesagain
Ok, I know there are some people who still get a bit offended when I talk about “government schools,” or “tax-funded indoctrination centers.” You can be honest. You think my outrage at the dramatic downward spiral of student standards, the censorship of even the barest symbols of God and country, the usurpation of parental roles by government officials, the peddling of self-esteem as the only commodity to our tiny epicureans….well, you think I’m overstating it.
Our schools wouldn’t really be that blatantly schilling for government, would they? They aren’t really just cheerleaders for Obama, right? Those are just the big-city radicals, right?
Below is an email from one of our listeners, who was dismayed to find his son’s little elementary school distributing T-shirts celebrating Barack Obama:
My name is Matt Latcham, and I have a son who is a 4th grader at Wellman Elementary school in Wellman, Iowa. (which, by the way, is an extremely conservative town) It is a part of the Mid-Prairie school district.
On the night of January 10, 2013, I got a call from a parent of a fifth grader asking me if my son had received an Obama t-shirt from school and brought it home. I immediately asked my son if he had received an Obama shirt, and much to my delight his response was “Why would I want an OBAMA t-shirt!?” He then told me that he did not receive one and knew nothing about them.
In continuing the conversation I learned that the Wellman Elementary fifth graders were given shirts with a picture of the front page of the Cedar .......
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Yer quick!....
I don't know.
Grading papers with red pens is frowned upon.
Yea, think about that - they don’t want to hurt the little munchkins feelings when they grade a paper but they don’t mind indoctrinating them to a socialist/marxist ideology that killed over a hundred million in the last century. Go Figure!
Meanwhile students wearing tshirts and bandannas decorated with the American flag are suspended for “racism”.
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