Saturday, June 2, 2007
5th Grade Teacher Has Children Sign "Bring Our Soldiers Home" Letter
Fifth Grade Teacher Jan Bobek of Soldotna Elementary School in Soldotna, Alaska recently sent a brightly colored letter (see image below) signed by her students that said, "Bring our soldiers home! They are our family." The letter was forwarded to me by a staffer who received it in the DC office of a Congressman from another state. One can only assume that similar letters were sent to other congressional offices. Given that the students only had to sign their name, there is no educational value in this note to a congressional office from another state. It's clearly a political message that's being sent by the teacher on taxpayers' dime...
There's a scan of the letter at the link.
As a class project, how about the kids create a petition entitled "Send Our TEACHER Home".
Extra credit if they get their parents to sign the petition too. ;-)
I'm glad that this issue is getting attention - I wrote about it at the link below, which includes the full text of the letter I sent to Ms. Bobek, the principal, Super., Asst. Super., Curriculum Director and Board President.
http://www.matthewktabor.com/2007/06/12/indoctrination-in-public-elementary-schools-fifth-graders-protest-the-iraq-war/