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Keep politics out of schools

Posted by Mark Chapman on March 1st, 2010 at 10:51 am

Letter to the editor

Let­ter to the editor

News: Sara­sota School chil­dren sing odes to Obama to music such as “The Bat­tle Hymn of the Repub­lic.”  Tax­pay­ers are upset our tax dol­lars are spent pro­mot­ing one-sided pol­i­tics in our ele­men­tary schools. If we want our chil­dren to learn pol­i­tics, we will teach them at home.

Super­in­ten­dent White’s office was con­tacted. Respon­si­ble: two teach­ers. They did not have per­mis­sion to teach the music. The teach­ers were not fired for insub­or­di­na­tion. They were, sup­pos­edly, rep­ri­manded with a let­ter in their per­sonal file.

Ques­tioned about cur­ricu­lum, White’s response: “Teach­ers may teach as they wish.”  There is no leader at the helm here. In well-run schools through­out the United States, cur­ricu­lum must pass through and with full endorse­ment of the super­in­ten­dent. Appar­ently, not in our schools.

Response: obfus­cate.

Another inci­dent: There is an Intern­ship Pro­gram secretly pushed by Pres­i­dent Obama in our sec­ondary schools. This pro­gram is foisted upon all schools in the U.S. (They didn’t leave Sara­sota Schools off the list.) It recruits stu­dents, in most cases, with­out par­ents’ knowl­edge. Require­ment: study rad­i­cal books such as Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Rad­i­cals.” (Alin­sky is a self-proclaimed rev­o­lu­tion­ary Com­mu­nist.) The aim is to brain­wash and pro­mote Marx­ism. They train stu­dents to EDUCATE their par­ents, encour­ag­ing them to pro­claim they know more than their parents.

Response: obfus­cate

Where in the world is the Board of Edu­ca­tion? What have we got­ten for our tax money? It’s not account­abil­ity, it’s not edu­ca­tion, it’s not Amer­i­can val­ues but under­min­ing the fam­ily and brain­wash­ing our children.

Kath­lyn Messina

Engle­wood

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