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TEACHER TAKES GRADE SCHOOL STUDENTS TO THE STREETS PROTESTING WAR
03.28.03 | Myself

Posted on 03/28/2003 11:27:40 AM PST by 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!”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: crackpots; education; indoctrination; middleschool; usingkidsastools
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I wish Couric had interviewed those students who refused to march..but hey, why mess up a perfectly good story.
1 posted on 03/28/2003 11:27:40 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay
That's nothing. A high school boy in Houston called talk radio last night and told the mc that his teacher sat back in muted silence as the kids ended a discussion of the war with repeated chants of "Death to Bush". The radio guy said wait on the line, no I am serious, wait on the line, the secret service would like to know about this. there are laws against threatening the president.

We have raised a generation of a-holes. Good job folks.
2 posted on 03/28/2003 11:30:41 AM PST by kinghorse
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To: kinghorse
Let's hope he waited on line!
4 posted on 03/28/2003 11:32:46 AM PST by fight_truth_decay (Occupied)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Home/private/parochial school bump.
5 posted on 03/28/2003 11:33:44 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: fight_truth_decay
I have doubts that those students were communicating with real Iraqi students. This is way out of line.
6 posted on 03/28/2003 11:36:52 AM PST by swheats
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To: fight_truth_decay
"Boy howdy, Bones. That Katie Couric and that grade school teacher have some nerve, don't they?"
"Both them Yankee bitches are dead, Jim!"

Want a break from war news? Go to Stark Trek for a laugh or two. Then come back refreshed and loaded for Katie!

7 posted on 03/28/2003 11:39:00 AM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: swheats
I can imagine it is pretty easy to say you love Saddam with an AK-47 pointed at your head...
8 posted on 03/28/2003 11:43:22 AM PST by LeftiesBinWhinin
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To: swheats
I have doubts that those students were communicating with real Iraqi students.

Me too, but keep in mind all email accounts in Iraq are monitored. Anything less than praise and you watch your family tortured before your throat is slit or head cut off.

9 posted on 03/28/2003 11:43:23 AM PST by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children)
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To: LeftiesBinWhinin
You beat me to it.
10 posted on 03/28/2003 11:43:58 AM PST by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children)
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To: kinghorse
The teacher should have done his students a favor and told his kids that. It might save them a lot of grief -- but perhaps he is just as clueless as they are.

Check out this article. The author means to be helpful to teachers:

http://www.educationnews.org/The-War-In-The-Classroom.htm
11 posted on 03/28/2003 11:44:16 AM PST by ladylib
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To: fight_truth_decay
"Bush said no one supported Saddam,” said one student, “and the letters say they do”. I was really surprised.”

What if perky Katie had been around in 1942? Interviewing students whose teacher encouraged them to correspond with Third Reich pen-pals? "Roosevelt said no one supported Hitler," said one student, "and the letters say they do." I was really surprised.

12 posted on 03/28/2003 11:46:23 AM PST by Alouette
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To: fight_truth_decay
Another example of the fine education that is happening in the Public Leftist Indoctrination Centers. Marx would be so proud of these youngsters and their teachers.
13 posted on 03/28/2003 11:47:40 AM PST by Luna (Evil will not triumph...God is at the helm)
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To: Protagoras
I have doubts that those students were communicating with real Iraqi students

Agreed. It had to be done within a school which was being closely watched on what was put into the emails. They expected I HATE SADDAM emails? Couric did little but the statement I included on some think the students are being used by adults

Makes me NUTZ!

15 posted on 03/28/2003 11:49:26 AM PST by fight_truth_decay (Occupied)
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Aguila(r?)’s 7th and 8th class had been exchanging emails with children in Iraq.

She knows for a fact that it was children responding?

Does she even know what a fact is?

16 posted on 03/28/2003 11:50:01 AM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: swheats
True!! All I saw were dirt floors, guns and chem suits so far in schools......no computers available. AND....like the state wouldn't review all emails coming out of that country....sheesh....what crap!!!
17 posted on 03/28/2003 11:51:35 AM PST by BossLady (Liberalism is a mental disorder.....)
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To: fight_truth_decay
How do these kids know that these are emails from Iraqi students? Isn't it conceivable that they come from the Iraqi Ministry of (Mis)Information? Iraq only has one, single, state-owned Internet provider, after all.
18 posted on 03/28/2003 11:51:40 AM PST by Illbay (Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
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To: Protagoras
Yeah me too. I'm glad to see that Katie is still the Eva Braun of the Left!!

A real journalist would have said, "well yes, I'm sure they said that. But you are aware that they have to say that or their families and themselves will be killed in a plastic shredder".
19 posted on 03/28/2003 11:51:43 AM PST by Ga Rob ("Consensus is the ABSENCE of Leadership" The Iron Lady)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Americas teachers, many not all, ar corrupting our youth. It's child abuse.
20 posted on 03/28/2003 11:52:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro (The Dems are self-destructing before our eyes, How Great is That !)
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