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NC Lawmaker Angry After Teacher Has Daughter Send Him Note About Budget Cuts

A state lawmaker in North Carolina is upset today after he received a hand-written letter from his 8-year-old daughter. That may sound odd at first, but that’s not the whole story. The letter, you see, was part of a school writing project that had students write to local politicians about public education. And the young girl’s note included a direct message: “Please put the buget [sic] higher dad.”

“I was extremely disappointed, but I tried not to show that in front of my daughter,” Republican Mike Stone told WRAL-TV. “I don’t know that at any time we should use our third-grade students as lobbyists:”

“The truth of the matter is, they baited my daughter on what to write,” Stone told the Carolina Journal.

The letter contained a story about two TAs losing their job and the school not having money for field trips or science class. Stone’s daughter even went as far as to say she and her classmates now might not learn their multiplication facts:

NC Lawmaker Angry After Teacher Has Daughter Send Him Note About Budget Cuts

But Lee County superintendent Jeffrey Moss said the writing assignment at Tramway Elementary was appropriate.

“It was not budget-specific except to say that they support funding public education. That was the theme,” Moss told the Journal. According to him, the assignment was given prior to the budget being passed, which may in fact hurt the school’s case considering the note encouraged Stone to raise the budget.

Moss was much more blunt to WRAL: “If you’re not interested in receiving letters from people in your district, don’t run for public office.”

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  • grannyjojo
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:31am

    @UlyssesP That remark was absolutely disgusting! It certainly is not that little girls fault, in anyway, shape or form and for you to say something vile like that shows what your character and morals are like. While I think what the teacher did was wrong, 100% wrong, there was no reason for anyone to blame the child. I wouldn’t let you within 20 feet of my grandchildren. “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:18pm

      I reported that post as soon as I read it. What a filthy thing to write concerning a child, as if she had any choice in the matter. Does he/she expect a child of eight years to stand up to a teacher?

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  • RLTW
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:30am

    Communism and it’s ideology has debased man far lower than any form of Gov, now they rob our children of real thought and fill their heads with their personal issues.

    This behavior is so characteristic of a mental disorder.

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:29am

    Talk about ethics gone out the window. Satan must be jealous of these Lib teachers‘ abilities to coax children into doing their dirty work for them because they don’t have a spine.

    “Moss was much more blunt to WRAL: “If you’re not interested in receiving letters from people in your district, don’t run for public office.”

    Myopic moron!

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  • PatrioticAmericanDad
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:29am

    Just another act of desperation from a left wing zombie. This teacher should be run out of town on a rail!

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  • drago
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:29am

    When my kids were still in school, i had problems with teachers, which i solved in face to face talks,after which i was sumarily banned from my kids elementary and middle schools. Banned or not, i never had problems with teachers after that, when they got into highschool, the principle already knew of me, not once in 6 years the kids were there did i have to go to the school for any reason.If my children were in school today, and were being taught the things they teach today, i would be in jail…….My point, stay involved with your kids, and pay close attention to what the liberal teachers are teaching kids today, and put a stop to things like this, fear is a wonderful thing sometimes…..

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    • kwatch
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:55am

      ummnm you sound a bit scary

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    • G
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:04pm

      My 3 children were scattered over the levels. If it wasn’t a problem from one school site it was another. If your child doesn‘t fit into their ’mold’ then you have a big problem. I actually had a teacher in a huge meeting tell me to my face, and my son’s, that he hated him because he wouldn’t respond to him. yup…So what does the mommy do that has the flu and cannot really think straight at the time? I told him he was an ass for talking about my child that way in his presence and cannot imagine what the hell else was going on when I wasn’t there. I said to the principal that the meeting could not go on if he didn‘t leave the room right that second and that that was child abuse they were sanctioning right to my child’s face. He left that minute without a word.

      Never stand between me and my children. No one.

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    • Nielk1
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:25pm

      My mother was similar to you. Ironically my parents are teachers. There ARE good ones out there.

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  • Dakota
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:28am

    Specifically the reason I worked two jobs to put my kids through private school. The result; 10 times better education at 1/2 the cost per pupil as compared to the cost of Gov’t school. Unions…this is what they have become…parasites.

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  • beverlee
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:27am

    Imagine what this little girl is going to think of this school teacher/system in ten years when she realizes how they have used her.

    How many letters like this were sent to President Obama on his being a bad role model toward those that have a differing viewpoint than his? Or, possibly about the national debt and being responsible for paying your bills and living within your means?

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  • ourrightsourfreedom
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:25am

    Education is being used as part of today’s politics here in the U.S. Wake up congress, it’s time that you send a mesage to these people. What are they teaching our children? Nothing but bunch of politics. I rather move my kids to some Asians countries which they have stricter laws on this issue. Only in United States.

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    • pfmwilly
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:40am

      our schools are more interested in the SOL’s so they can get funding. Nothing about the 34 R’s. We need to go back to basics. Stop this insanity

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  • Locked
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:24am

    It’s sneaky, but I feel a good way to make the point. Schools are getting screwed; education is almost always one of the first things cut to make ends meet. The little girl didn’t lie about anything – her school could lose a ton of things if they don’t get funding.

    It’s adorable, but sad.

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    • JCAmerican
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:45am

      Education is the first to be cut because it is one of the largest items of spending in the state budget. Also, because of unions, it is the most bloated.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Perhaps education is always the one to be THREATENED with cuts Iremember the “Washington Monument Gambit”?) but seldom comes in for much in the way of REAL cuts where the cuts are needed (school management is always overpaid and bloated). As in my state of Colorado, the first threats made were to cut 5000 teachers statewide and close schools. Didn’t happen. The cuts were made elsewhere in places where the unions weren’t affected. No cuts in benefits for useless wetbacks, no cuts for teachers, no closed schools…and yes our govenor is a union elected PROGRESSIVE who loves illegal aliens…he even hired one who killed one police officer and severely injured another a few years ago!

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  • obama-mecca-me-sick
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:23am

    School clothes – $1000
    School supplies- $150
    Indoctrination of our children by the teachers union- priceless.

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    • benrush
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 10:50pm

      I like it! Do you mind if I steal it for use on facebook?

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  • Untameable-kate
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:23am

    Sooo, you blame the child and call her a filthy name?? Dude, you are a pig.

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    • bikerr
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:17pm

      @Untameable-kate–to whom do you call a pig? I agree with your comment just didn’t catch who called a child a filthy name.Thanks.

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  • HuskerDave
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:22am

    In the mind of a liberal union hack, the ends justify the means. Shameful and outrageous.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:21am

    UNION Teachers!!!!!

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  • blackcatrun
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:21am

    Wanna know what I am in faver of? One room school houses. Kid goes from 1st grade up to 12 in one room and for that entire time hears advanced lessons all 12 years of school. Problem of stupid kids solved. Problem of blotted budgets and greedy teachers solved.

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  • Freedom1984
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:21am

    These EVIL people are indoctrinating our children. We need to call EVIL when we see it. THIS IS EVIL.

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  • adept316
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:20am

    ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just another reason to home school. So much for the basics for our children.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:20am

    A teacher needs two TA in order to teach a class? When I was in grade school, we had one teacher, about 30 kids, and no problem. Of course, this was in the 60′s. This might have been before the unions moved into the schools.

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    • shadisadie
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:51pm

      I started kindergarten in 1948..graduated H.S. in 1960..most classes were 35-40 students…no TA’s..no failing students..and american students were heads and shoulders ahead of the rest of the educated world…since our educators have become unionized, the quality of our childrens education has plummeted while the unions leaders pay has risen steadily, bad teachers are impossible to get rid of..and worst of all they are brainwashing our children with marxism, progressivism, turning them into useful idiots indoctrinated with their left wing BS

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    • ToBeRatherThanToSeem
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 5:36pm

      Just a few facts. In the last budget year the local school funding was around 15.3 million. For the new budget year the requested funding was for 19.23 million. Who in their right mind in this economy would request a 25.6 % spending increase. In fact the current budget proposed would increase the level of spending by $ 160,000 over the previous year. This isn’t the only scam that this group has pulled. The last tactic was to say that all athletics would be cut. Its a sad state of affairs when the superintendent is an egotistical jerk, and gets to run rough shod over the incompetent school board. Pox on all their houses.

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  • MJR
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:19am

    Superintendent Moss , I hope one day when the heat is put to your feet you can say the same thing about your job.

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    • landman1
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 1:33pm

      Mr. Moss has quite a history of being an a-s-s. He had several run ins with the Commissioners of the county he last worked in. He’s much smarter than everyone else you know Wound up suiing the county over proposed budget cuts which cost the taxpayers double because they had to pick up the tab for both sdies legal representation. Finally settled after a couple of years. After all that, his schools scored lower on the national level than before. Great work Dr. Moss and good riddance. I hope Lee County is happy with you ’cause Beaufort County is glad you’re gone.

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  • hi
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:18am

    Get rid of the Department of Education and we will have a lot of money to fund education when we get rid of ponzi scheme pensions and get rid of worthless teachers which the union will not do. Teachers do not need expensive aids. They can have the help of an intern studying in college or lots of moms love to help out. Field trips are a waste anyway.

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:17am

    Unionized teachers are domestic terrorists, out to destroy America – and our children’s minds.

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  • This_Individual
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:17am

    The teacher has stepped outside her bounds and should be fired.

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    • blackcatrun
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:23am

      way outside the bounds.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:44am

      The teacher won’t be fired. I fact, she was probably “inspired” by her local union to do this….

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    • kwatch
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:54am

      the teacher absolutely! what about the superindtendent?

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    • ninja97
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:59am

      As long as you’re lefty teacher, there ARE no bounds.

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  • bigtruck1956
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:16am

    Unfortunately we have come to the point in this country where there is no shame. Everybody’s goal is to take care of themselves and the heck with anybody else. These people will use children, old people, lies, deceit and deception for their own personal gains. I am surprised that this man even has his child in public school. If she wishes to reach out that she should reach out by talking to him personally not using his child as a surrogate.

    http://rustyspostweekly.com/index.html

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:15am

    I think it is inappropriate for teachers to use students as tools to influence public debate on education budgets. Coming from the home is a whole different matter, but making it a class writing project in third grade is a cheap shot.

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    • NOBALONEY
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:22am

      Agree

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:01pm

      You should see the schools in the Los Angeles area .
      We work there sometimes & you’ll be surprised @ the propaganda written in the halls & inside the classrooms all made by the teachers , they’re not even hiding it .

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    • Detah
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:14pm

      That is exactly what the teachers are doing. Third graders should be studying civics. If the teachers want to explore budgets as part of the civics curriculum, great. If the teachers want to use the students as mass lobbying writers, that is not ok. In fact, in the process the teachers are harming the kids by NOT informing them that they are writing on behalf of the teacher’s agenda. Did the teachers tell the kids that the funding for the budget comes from taxpayers’ pockets? Did the kids have the opportunity to take the opposing viewpoint that school funding is already ‘too high’? I strongly doubt it. So instead of teaching, it is nothing more than brainwashing. Deplorable. And it looks like the Superintendent Moss is onboard with the brainwashing. What exactly is required to remove a superintendent? I would be finding out, if this were my school district.

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    • michael48
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 7:08pm

      vouchers…now!!!!!!=educate not INDOCTRINATE

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  • flsnipe
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:15am

    Nice use the kids way to go you stupid xxxck!!

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:22am

      This is beyond disgusting. The teacher involved in this is darned lucky he didn’t try this garbage with my child.

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    • Patrick in AZ
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:44am

      I have no sympathy for teachers like this – marxist (aka progressive) teacher’s unions should be abbolished and marxist teachers should be fired

      Patrick in AZ  
    • D0ntTread0nMe
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:44am

      This is how the left works now, they demonize cost cutters, and use little kids to do it…despicable!
      http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com

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    • joe conservative
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:55am

      They’ve been indoctrinating our kids for years now. This is a great video showing how they are going about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5CL4gmeOw This story is also a great example of why we need to stand up and tell the teachers to leave our kids alone.

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    • Uncurable wound
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:04pm

      HOME School!!!

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    • zorro
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:10pm

      I wouldn’t have gotten that upset. This is a great teaching moment. Kids are NOT stupid. They get incodtrinated because we don’t teach them at home how to defend themselves from this garbage. Tell your kids why we can’t spend more money. Tell your kids how the public education system is just wasting money and getting no results. You can explain it to them in ways they can understand. Tell them private schools spend 50 or 60% LESS per student, they have no “regulated” teachers, and yet outperform public schools consistently year after year. Kids are smart. They will get it.

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:10pm

      Too bad teachers are so afraid of having to do their jobs AND share the sacrfice that most families are going through .. .perhaps they would prefer to be unemployed … HOME SCHOOL and put these Union Hacks indoctrinating children OUT OF WORK!

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:16pm

      @Untameable

      they already do…as a teacher…high school…and from personal experience while in K-12, I can tell you that this is a routine practice. Students are instructed to write letters to public officials all the time and tell them how they feel on a certain topic….This letter sounds MUCH more scripted by the teacher and what I know of, but still…it happens in all grades as part of what would be called “Civics” education.

      Now I have never been EXPRESSLY told by a teacher what to write in a letter nor have I heard of a teacher expressly telling a student what to write, but there is always an IMPLIED opinion and most students, especially in K-6 grades, want to please the teacher so they will write whatever the teacher says is the correct opinion..even if the teacher says “write how you feel and think” after reading a story about a topic…
      those stories are MOST definitely LEFTIST…

      that is why I am trying to relocate out of CA to Idaho or Texas….or Utah…somewhere that lets me carry a gun loaded without signing away my first born..

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:19pm

      I hope he doesn’t teach spelling.

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    • Vixvenom
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:20pm

      The real shame is how unbelievably unaware most people are about what colleges are teaching TEACHERS, not elementary students. If you really want to know, check out Diversity and Multicuturalism, by Peter Lang. One of the primary goals of multicultural education, as stated, is social justice and showing the students how to act to bring it about. I am currently in a teacher education program at one of the least liberal colleges in the nation and am being trained on how to be a socialist and forward socialism. It’s one of the primary goals, not an outlying desire, A PRIMARY GOAL!! The country is blind to how far the agenda is advanced, and to the methods employed to forward that agenda. It is beyond reversal now….if you don‘t agree with that then you still don’t know how far it’s advanced. IT IS DEEPLY ENTRENCHED INTO EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE! We can only hope to disrupt at this point so you better start learning how to do that….the left wrote many books on how to do that before they got the upper hand….read them. Use their methods against them…..organizing and infiltration are the keys….as I said , I am be coming a teacher….I am going in.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:33pm

      We don’t need no education
      We don’t need no thought control
      No dark sarcasm in the classroom
      Teachers leave them kids alone
      Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
      All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
      All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

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    • Bloody Sam
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:41pm

      “Stone’s daughter even went as far as to say her and her classmates now might not learn their multiplication facts…”

      Ummm…I didn’t learn squat from any school teacher about the multiplication tables.
      My father had me write them down longhand every night after my homework was done.
      Starting with the ones and ending with the nines. And then repeating.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:42pm

      Communist goal #17

      http://archive.glennbeck.com/news/03212002.shtml

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:44pm

      VRW
      We live in Arizona, feel free to come here to escape Ca. We need some conservatives to move in, we are being overrun by the Ca libs who run from the ruin that is liberal Ca and try to bring their lib ways here. We tell them we don’t want it but they know we are just too ignorant to know what is good for us.
      As far as what my son is learning in school, be assured I stay on top of that situation. My child will NOT be indoctrinated. I have had to go in a couple of times and chew the heads off the administration to make sure they were not trying to sway my kids judgement.

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    • randy
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:46pm

      These teachers make me sick! They are no better than the cowardly adult muslims who turn their kids into walking, talking , breathing bombs.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 1:49pm

      Yeah, it’s great to put our children in politics this way!!! I would thank the school for making it easier to send my Daughter to a private school where they teach Reading Writing and Arithmatic!!!! Public schools are DISASTERS and they should focus on the basics rather than the “socials”……..

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    • cessna152
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 1:58pm

      That is why mine are privately schooled and home schooled. What typical BS! These teachers have no shame!

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    • meamerican
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:02pm

      If that is what these teachers do then it sounds like a good thing that they lost their jobs!

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:10pm

      Civic? Education?
      Hardly.
      This is plain old indoctrination and brainwashing… no matter what euphemism you call it.
      It is still a big steamy pile of ________!

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 3:14pm

      @Kate,
      You are right on there! This is the lowest of the low and anyone that knows these “pretend” educators should avoid associating with them like the plague. If people that go this low and try to use little children should be considered the same as child abusers and ostracized from any friends that have morals as well as their churches if they are pretending to be christian. If they do go to church and the church allows them to remain in their congregation, then I personnally would not step into their building because I know that God is “NOT IN THAT PLACE”. So I would have no wish nor need to go there. The Bible states that if someone refuses to change from evil then the congregation must make that person not welcome there. Using children like this could be considered evil.

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    • 101
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 6:17pm

      wrong, wrong ,wrong, just plain wrong the teacher should be fired!

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    • Joshua7
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 6:43pm

      What does any of this have to do with the three R’s?!

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    • ConsiderThis
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 8:33pm

      As I recall my beginning school years, teaching multiplication facts took a blackboard, a piece of chalk and an interested teacher. Have trouble believing this teacher hasn’t the board and chalk. So, that leaves…well, I bet a nice little pension increase could provide the interest. Obama is just going to have to raise taxes and get some more money to these schools cuz the kids gotta learn their tables.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 9:09pm

      Personally, I probably would have accidentally given the teacher a wedgie!

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 8, 2011 at 12:55am

      Well, I won’t support the teacher in this instance, although there is a legitimate gripe there probably supplied by the teacher.

      But let’s face it. State after state is cutting money for the education of our children to support the tax breaks they are giving businesses, many of whom are making record profits. The right is demonizing teachers and education system from Kindergarten to universities. You guys want to cut pay for those teaching our children and cut funding for schools. You’d take education from those who have the least, and who would at least have a chance at the American dream, to even more money to those who already rich (and who, not coincidentally are the one who give political donations).

      There are many other countries, both westernized democracies and other less democratic countries who realize that cultivating education in every child is the best possible investment in the future of the country.

      If we don’t turn this around those countries are going to kick our butts in the next generation. But we’ll have a few rich people while it lasts!

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    • drbage
      Posted on June 8, 2011 at 9:28am

      Of course, the superintendent backs the teacher and then hacks the Dad. Reading the letter you can see that they have already started not grading the papers. I had an encounter with my godson’s 4th grade teacher and brought up what I saw as an inconsistency between the grade and the spelling and grammar in the paragraph. I was told that she was not concerned with spelling and grammar, because it might stifle my godson’s creativity. When I asked what good creativity would be, if no one could understand what he was saying, because of the spelling and grammar, I was asked to leave. I have been trying to get a meeting with the superintendent to follow up, but so far no luck.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:02am

      Do people not understand YET? We spend almost 10K per child already. China spends half that and kicks our @ss in everything, even english. Why is it that private schools can operate at 5-9K per child per year, but the Federal school jails can’t?

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:13am

    What a load of bu&%$#&!!!

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