TEACHER TAKES GRADE SCHOOL STUDENTS TO THE STREETS PROTESTING WAR

03.28.03 | Myself

[fight_truth_decay]

Oakland, Calif. - NBC’s Today Show, March 28th, Katie Couric interviewed grade school teacher, Elena Aguila(r?), who had taken 40 students to the streets carrying pictures putting faces on civilians and the children of Iraq. Aguila(r?)’s 7th and 8th class had been exchanging emails with children in Iraq.

"Bush said no one supported Saddam,” said one student, “and the letters say they do”. I was really surprised.”

“Schools are about to be empty. Our eyes never sleep. Why should war break our peace? It is not their oil,” she reads from an email from an Iraqi student. Another student said he worries about the students he has not heard from recently comparing them to a person that has been kidnapped with no word if they are safe.

Couric responded many may feel Aguila(r?)’s protesting students are pawns for anti-war protesting adults. The student responds: “We have a mind of our own! Some students did refuse to march. We signed papers and were interviewed. I got interviewed a lot!”

Aguila(r?) was surprised at the coverage her students have received adding, “It’s amazing the power young people have!”

[bmwcyle]

Fire that Whore!

[rundy]

I saw this trio (one teacher and two duped students) on tv this morning. If there were any sense of concern for Iraqis they would be talking about the 500,000 + children that die every year due to starvation induced by the existing regime.

How tragic indeed that gullable young students can be encouraged to care about trivial things and ignore truly monumental things!

It will not be too long until we will be over-run be blathering liberal pacifists the same way we are currently being over-run by liberal wards of the state. If we don't wake up soon we will have nothing left to celebrate or be proud of.

I was disgusted by the whole pathetic display.

And yes, why didn't the perky one take the time to talk to those who refused to march? Oh yes, I know. It would not help to advance Couric's liberal, anti-American agnda.

[MHGinTN]

Parents should demand this 'teacher' be fired for manipulating the children under her care. I don't give a damn about her political perspective, but to use the children in her care for her polititcal goals is intolerable and despicable. This IS intolerable, folks. Time to chuck the PC and take back control of the public school system, with constant oversight! Taxpayers pay this bitch's salary. Don't waste the money on bad teachers with anti-American goals.

[f.Christian]

A fourth grader writes a ... letter to a soldier --- "because you are there" !

[lizma]

Parents should demand this 'teacher' be fired for manipulating the children under her care.

Parents have to sign a permission form for students to be taken off campus. Either the parents are also trolls or they should have the teacher arrested for kidnapping.

[AlexW]

Sadam does not need to use chemicals or any other WMD on us.
The media, as represented by Couric, our public education
system, and our Universities are spewing more then enough
toxic filth to kill off everything that made America a great country.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Does she even know what a fact is?

Boy, are you ever out of touch with modern educational theory. Don't you know that THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FACT? That's what all the teacher colleges and graduate schools of education teach their students now.

[WomanofStandard]

"Bush said no one supported Saddam,” said one student, “and the letters say they do”. I was really surprised.”

Of course neither the teacher nor even Katie dear happened to mention that the kids would not DARE write in an email that they were against Saddam, that they were terrified of him or that they wanted the USA to come over there and kick his butt because they would be too afraid of having their email intercepted and being murdered themselves!

[sticker]

"What if perky Katie had been around in 1942"

She wouldn't have said a thing, by then Hitler was attacking the USSR. Ok, she would have complained we weren't sending Uncle Joe enough help

[joesnuffy]

Junior High School teachers around here are pretty open about their anti war feelings and inculcate these feelings into their "lessons" (aka brainwashing) ...they then give the kids "assignments" writing poetry that expresses "their feelings" about the war ...Naturally the kids anxious to please their teachers..who ,of course, have made it quite clear what is considered a good and acceptable attitude towards the topic and... what is not...naturally this intimidation produce the desiried results...not without some internal agitation in the kids...

My God daughter fufilled her writing assignment and wrote a poem expressing her fears about the war and her confussion..it was well written & just leaning enough into the anti war camp..that her poem was selected to be published in the local paper (Gannet news owned)....her mom was quite proud and wanted her to read it to me....I had to tell her that it was a very well written poem (imo it was)...she's a kid who needs to hear praise about her work..and has made great improvements as of late..

After

She and I had a long talk on the phone about what this war was really about...the saving of Iraqi children from the horrible abuse of an evil cruel dictator.and that much like a small child or her favorite kitty being attacked by a wild animal..we must some times fight to save others.

And when bad people attack our friends and relatives or even complete strangers ...to oppress and hurt them ...we need to help them.

We also talked about why we are fighting in Iraq against some of the same people and their friends who hijacked the aircraft flew them into the WTC and Pentagon killing thousands of our citizens ..moms and dads..and even kids...Fighting against evil and keeping people safe from harm ..are some of the duties that God expects of His people..

I felt bad for her...being put in such a position by her teachers who she trusts..and who( if she fights against) will most certainly turn on her...at least I think she is starting to understand their hipocracy but its hard for kids to know how to resist them without getting into trouble for opposing them openly and then having to suffer the consequence of bad grades or a behavioral label..(yes the teachers are that vindicative of those little ones who rebel against their lies)

I wish her mom (who is divorced and having a tough time getting support from her ex) could afford a private school...but frankly some of those are as bad as the public ones)
Tough days to be a kid..so we pray for them..dont know what else to do..

[fight_truth_decay]

Couric..lets just chalk it up to poor reporting.

But then is easier to just record the interview...cut..cut..run with it with no interviewer interruption.

I will be fair that another TODAY interview preceding this interviewed younger students who's parents had left for Iraq. They were second graders in the SE. The teacher interviewed had put up a poster about HEROES. Some had both parents off to war.

The question to one student was: Did you get to see your daddy off to the war? ..Reponse: No, I was sleeping but he kissed me and whispered he was leaving now.

They were brave, but proud little ones!

[Aquinasfan]

In 7th grade (1974) my history teacher taught us that the following institutions were equivalent:

US.................................................USSR
President.....................................CP Chairman
Cabinet........................................Politburo
Congress....................................Communist Party
Supreme Court...........................Supreme Soviet

We also learned that taking children from their parents at infancy and putting them in state-run institutions was a great idea. Ah, government school memories.

[steplock]

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[KC_Conspirator]

The ghost of Baldur von Shirach must be smiling today knowing that his work continues today with this teacher.

[baseballfanjm]

"Bush said no one supported Saddam,” said one student, “and the letters say they do”. I was really surprised.”

Um, no need for words. In fact, it's laughable. However, the teacher manipulating the students, and kids are VERY easy to manipulate, and using them as pawns is disgusting. Heck, at least show both sides of the story. Why not tell stories of people who have been raped, tortured, and murdered by order of Saddam? What about the wholesale slaughters of his own people? Actually, nowadays that'd get her fired.

[ladylib]

I believe trying to create inner turmoil is called cognitive dissonance. It's a form of brainwashing.

http://www.crossroad.to/charts/brainwashing.html

This teacher should be watched and perhaps various talk shows could be called about her underhanded tactics. If she and her school receive enough negative publicity, it will probably stop.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm? You can say you hate the President in public, and you can carry a sign of Bush's face with a line through it, but you cannot call for his death in public.

I would guess this teacher will have a lot of 'splaining to do - and could be out of a job. These people have to get a grip on this hatred of Bush - it's over the top.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

THIS TEACHER SHOULD BE FIRED FROM HER JOB AND PUT ON A "BLACKLIST"!

[aruanan]

Aguila(r?) needs to be thrown out on her butt.

[Maria S]

I heard about this teacher on the early morning news on the radio. Apparently, the perky Katie didn't want to share "the rest of the story" on national TV. The radio reported that the teacher had the kids marching silently along some main street in San Francisco while an accompanying truck with a loudspeaker followed along. What message was the loudspeaker playing? Bombing sounds accompanied by children's screams!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing, but I DID hear it! Shame on the parents for putting their kids through such garbage.