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some sicko of a teacher lets the kids write what is practically hate mail, and you say not to make a big deal over it??
This teacher should be fired.
However, teaching children that we target civilians is an outright lie.
those letters are beautiful. they represent children exorcising thier right to free speech.
I hope he finds himself in war one day. Then he'll know exactly how idiotic he is.
If my child wrote a letter that accused American soldiers of these things I definately WOULD NOT send it. It would be LIES.
First, kids don't have opinions,
the teacher had no business mailing letters that contained them out to the troops.
if by grow up you mean quit thinking for myself and questioning authority, jumping on the bandwagon and giving up making sarcastic comments... no, dont think i will.
that does not mean they should advertise it and send letters.
Example -
If any of you worked in the Aerospace industry making the Space Station, and you got a bunch of letters from school children which contained lies like ... 'the space station kills people' or 'the space station is used for military bombs so please stop'
this teacher SOB is making kids send political rants.
It wouldn't have been difficult for the teacher to screen the kiddies letters... if the teacher had really wanted to.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by Kidfinger
The teachers did NOT tell them what to write.
You don't know that. The 'support' letters said (paraphrase)
thank you but stop destroying mosques and killing innocent people.
and so on and so on ....
Most of the 21 letters Jacobs provided to The Post mentioned some support for the armed forces, if not the Iraq war, and thanked him for his service. But nine of the students made clear their distaste for the president or the war.
The letters were written as a social-studies assignment.
The JHS 51 teacher, Alex Kunhardt, did not return phone calls, but the school principal, Xavier Costello, responded with a statement:
"While we would never censor anything that our children write, we sincerely apologize for forwarding letters that were in any way inappropriate to Pfc. Jacobs. This assignment was not intended to be insensitive, but to be supportive of the men and women in service to our nation."
Originally posted by Kieser Sosay
Kidfinger... ...Listen to your wife more often.
Originally posted by Kidfinger
FF, you are making to big of a deal out of this. It was only a few letters that said anything remotly like your accusing.
One Muslim boy wrote: "Even thoe [sic] you are risking your life for our country, have you seen how many civilians you or some other soldier killed?"
His letter, which was stamped with a smiley face, went on: "I know your [sic] trying to save our country and kill the terrorists but you are also destroying holy places like Mosques."
Most of the 21 letters Jacobs provided to The Post mentioned some support for the armed forces, if not the Iraq war, and thanked him for his service. But nine of the students made clear their distaste for the president or the war.
The boy sounds like he is supporting the soldiers, he just wants less civilian casualties. And you would be a fool to think we have not caused any casualties.
[edit on 2/21/05 by Kidfinger]
Originally posted by mpeake
If the teachers of this school wanted to puch thier liberal BS agenda, ... Those kids don't even know what a mosque is, but they somehow "know" that the US Soldier they are writing to is an evil maniac bent on blowing up eveything they can??? WTF???
Originally posted by FlyersFan
OFF TOPIC. However, to APPEASE you - no that's NOT what I have
taught my child. Iraq is free. They were under Saddam being mass
murdered by the hundreds of thousands and mass raped.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
The people were having billions of dollars stolen from them by Saddam
and the corrupt United Nations Oil for Food bunch - the thefts
went right to the top - Koffi Annan's son if not Koffi himself (time
will tell).
Originally posted by FlyersFan
America is safer because Democracy is in Iraq. That's
a fact.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
That's what we teach in home school because it's the truth.
Iraqis are free. They are happy with freedom. They hate the
insurgent terrorists. Freedom means education which means less
terrorists being grown. You won't like it ... but that's the truth.
Originally posted by soficrow
It is not unpatriotic to point out flaws or express disagreement. It is not evidence of "brainwashing" when children think differently than others.
Originally posted by TheBandit795
I hate using the words "liberal" and "conservative". But I don't see any difference between the extremists of the two. In the beginning we didn't have them on ATS. I personally wish it was like that again.
This is one of the worst threads I've ever seen here.
Originally posted by drfunk
The rhetoric gets a bit too much, but i do like the debate that comes from it, there are always a few gems in a pile of dirt,
Originally posted by TheBandit795
But that does not belong in ATS. Only in PTS!!!
Originally posted by Kidfinger
Oh, and FF, how is it a lie that Iraqi Civillians
have been killed by our forces?
Originally posted by Kidfinger
Agreed. Why dont you move it? No sarcasm intended.