Oct 12, 2012
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Parents in a key battleground state are livid after children as young as five years old were ordered to write letters to President Obama seeking advice in what was called an afterschool political activity.
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“I think they are using the children to get to the parents,” said Victoria Baldree, the mother of a 9-year-old child who attends Seven Oaks Elementary School in Pasco County, Fla. “Why are they teaching kindergartners politics? I don’t understand that.”
Baldree’s daughter, Blair, was one of hundreds of children in kindergarten through the fifth grade who attend the before and after school program sponsored by the school district.
On Wednesday, childcare workers told the children they would be participating in a political activity, Baldree said.
“They handed the students letters they wanted the kids to write to the president,” she told Fox News. “When Blair told them she didn’t want to write to President Obama – that she would rather write a letter to Mitt Romney – they told her no. She had to write the letter to President Obama.”
Baldree said the instructors did not explain why she could not write to Romney – but she completed the assignment.
“She did write a letter because she’s not going to disobey an adult,” she said.
The letters students were supposed to ask President Obama for advice – and each one was addressed to the White house.
The family is politically active and she said the assignment was a red flag to her fourth grade daughter.
“When my husband picked her up she was pretty upset about it,” she said. “We were very upset about it.”
The Baldrees visited the head of the program on Thursday but did not get answers to their questions.
“I was concerned because they’re supposedly teaching them some political stuff at this program – but they are not qualified to do that,” she said. “These are not teachers – these are child care workers.”
“I was extremely livid about it,” she added. “Why are unqualified people teaching children politics in an afterschool program?”
The Pasco County School system did not return multiple calls seeking an answer to that question. The district has been rocked with complaints from parents after Obama campaign volunteers were allowed to register hundreds of teenagers on campus.
A volunteer was also allowed to deliver pro-Obama speeches to a number of high school classrooms – and in one instance Obama supporters told teenage girls that Romney would take away their birth control and ban abortions if he was elected president.
Republicans in the county demanded equal access – but school officials refused their request.
Baldree said the incidents are not coincidental.
“It came at a very tumultuous time with politics the way it is now,” she said. “I think they are using the children to get to the parents.”
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This is nothing new parr of the entire democrat/communist ideology is to indoctrinate children while removing more and more parental rights. all this is straight out of the communist manifesto.
The first year he was president, he wanted to read stories in schools, but was met with protests because of racist parents scared of their own shadow. But no one complained about Bush reading to students while the Twin Towers were being attacked! The only complaint was that he looked dumbfounded and didn't know what to do.
Of course they're using the kids. The parents should get together and sue the district, that will put a stop to it. If they don't, it will continue and probably get worse. Doesn't Obama want to have the federal government control what is taught in school instead a of the states?
Writing a letter to the President of the United States asking for advice is an age-old assignment. Children have been doing it for generations. There is nothing new or sinister in this activity. Since this article is short on detail and fraught with innuendo, it is no wonder that some people read something into it that isn't there. For instance, the article says, "Obama supporters" told students that a Romney administration would limit contraception and abortion. Who are these supporters? Other students? Adults? Placement of this phrase following the statement that a volunteer gave a pro-Obama speech leads one to assume that these are campaigners who have converged upon the campus promoting their candidate, although none of this is stated. These could be students. Also, we don't know whether anyone gave a pro-Romney speech. Maybe so, maybe not; however, many schools hold mock debates during election years, with students portraying the various candidates. I am not saying that this is what happened, I am just saying that there are plausible reasons that these things might occur.
When does the teacher get his or her walking papers from the principle?
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So are the parents going to get together and sue the school system? Apparently, this school district doesn't care about the bias complaints as they're refusing to give any answers. This leaves only one solution if we want to take back our schools from far left liberals – a lawsuit. I hope they will consider it before it's too late.
The parents need to contact other parents of kids in that classroom and everybody show up at the school board meeting. Believe me when all those parents show up at once it will make an impression.
Last I checked the reason students were in public school was to provide them with knowledge and skills to facilitate their participation in civic life. We need to wait until high school to do that? Let's wait until high school to start teaching the sacred science and math and see where that gets us.