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."
Agreed. But how?
Vote all out school choice. Demand it from right wing canidates.
Yes, find a church where the pastor preaches Christ, not political correct bull dung!
Then do not let a root of bitterness rise up in you. Forgive the offense of this younger brother and do not be a stumbling block for him. In fact, the best offer you can make is to be his prayer partner - meet with him weekly over coffee and offer to be his Paul/mentor. This will allow you to (over time) help him discern between truth and error, good and evil as you search the scriptures together.
If none of this works or you meet arrogance/resistence...send a letter to the elders indicating your resignation and why. Then go in peace.
As to litigation; We know of a certain School Administrator who has been sued for among other things sexual harassment.
So far we are told it has cost TAXPAYERS over $60,000 to cover his legal fees, settlements etc... and he recently got a raise to over $100 Large per annum.
So don't look for leverage that way; win or lose, NEA/State School cabals win, Taxpayers pay the consequences either way.
Also notified - Rush@EIB.com. and the American Legion National HQ.
Here is part of my letter:
There was a time when knowledge of such a treacherous atrocity could be generally kept from the majority of Citizens by a partisan Press and broadcast media; this is no longer the case, with the resurgence of alternative information resources and the Internet.
Word is getting out to the Patriotic, Freedom Loving People of Maine... and I sense no less than outrage.
It looks like the ME NEA may have really "stepped in it" this time with their political agenda-driven tactics. There are some very indignant, if not utterly enraged Mainers weighing in here apparently about ready to take matters to the streets, if not directly to the School Boards and Schools themselves.
Some speculation arises that when the situation in the Middle East is at length resolved, that some Battle-weary Veterans of bloody, mortal combat who also happen to be Parents of Maine School Children, will be coming home to Maine looking for a personal Parent - Teacher conference before they get their combat boots unlaced. That might just result in some of the most educational experiences that ME NEA Members have had in quite some time!
And I would not be surprised if those same Veteran Parents leave said Public School with their Children in tow, to take up "Home Schooling" or some other educational alternative.
As a matter of fact, I rather hope that a lot of them do!
Still skeptical?
Just scan the postings on that breaking Forum thread I linked you to (this one)... and FEEL THE LOVE!!! Way to go, NEA! You've really stepped in it this time!
Keep it up though, Komrades; we just might get the EDUCATIONAL CHOICE America so desperately needs after all!
("Support Our Troops" graphic) ...Who by their courage and sacrifice EARN us the FREEDOM we all too often take for granted, or abuse. ...Otherwise please find yourself some other Country to live in.
There are several out there which already embrace the Socialism / Communism some who find such fault with our Country and it's President seem so fond of; There's no need to manipulate the United States of America into being another one.
So just feel free to pack up your Liberal agenda, "Thoughts of Mao", and Politically Correct ideas and repair to one of them. Perhaps you will feel more at "Home" there.
And kindly have the decency to leave those of us who still manage to somehow LOVE this Country and take pride in those who defend it, and THEIR CHILDREN, alone!
Thank You ever so much.
For God and Country:
"Uncle Jaque"
I have alerted the vets in the L-A area. They are steamed.
Let's hope some of the big guns pick this up. Don't count on anything from Duke Albanese or John Baldacci.
I sure hope he picks it up because someone needs to put pressure on someone to dig deeper into this issue to get all the facts out in the open. As long as things are hidden, this horrible use and abuse of a child's emotionally well being will continue.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."Jefferson was applying this to our own revolution and, in general, to domestic insurrections as well. At that time, no one in America was talking about deposing foreign despots.
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to William S. Smith, Paris, Nov. 13, 1787
Too bad the children in this story are so young. Their little minds are so easy for the NEA to destroy.
I don't know which is worse for Americas future. Left wingers, or Al Quata. One just works faster than the other.
Well, actually, I had in mind the continuing attempted socialist "domestic insurrection" being promulgated by our internal "tyrants" (in this case the NEA).
I think Jefferson would have had no problem whatsoever with removing Saddam Hussein (see his actions wrt the "Barbary Pirates"--Saddam and Bin Ladin are just the philisophical descendants of same).
When Clinton was in office, we conservatives feared for the Republic, but we never turned against it.
These people hate Bush, and they hate America for allowing him in office.
I do not know what, short of civil war, is going to correct this state of affairs. And believe me, I do NOT want to see civil war.
No teachers were named. No school board was named. I can appreciate the sentiments you express but they don't apply in this instance.
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