Teachers Use EIGHT YEAR OLD STUDENTS for Anti War Campaign!!!

Get this: ANOTHER example of educators abusing their positions to push a political agenda. But this time, it's not college students like Rebecca Beach that is the target but 90 8 year olds in Wisconsin forced to write anti-war letters.

It's clear that the left's delusion about what is right and WRONG is out of whack. But you have to be REALLY WHACKED to attempt to use 8 year olds this way.

Wisconsin State Journal: A letter-writing campaign by third-graders at Allis Elementary School encouraging an end to the war in Iraq was canceled because it violates School Board policy, district officials said Tuesday.

Julie Fitzpatrick, a member of the 10-teacher team that developed the project for the school's 90 third-grade students in five classes, said the assignment was intended to demonstrate citizen action, one of the district's standards in social studies.
'We saw peace as a common good,' Fitzpatrick said. 'We were just advocating that people keep working toward peace.'

But Robin Reynolds, an Army veteran whose 8-year-old grandson is in Fitzpatrick's class, said she regards the assignment as a form of 'anti-war protesting' that 'is not suitable for elementary students.'

'They're supposed to teach the facts and not opinions,' she said. 'That's brainwashing.' 'It was certainly an unfortunate thing to have happen,' Superintendent Art Rainwater said. 'It's a direct violation of our board policy.

Madison School Board policy prohibits teachers 'from exploiting the institutional privileges of their professional positions to promote candidates or parties and activities.'

"We don't want our staff ever using our students in a political activity, which this obviously was," Rainwater said. "I think the district would apologize to anyone who was offended. It should not have happened."

Allis Principal Chris Hodge said a letter was sent to parents Tuesday apologizing to anyone who was offended and informing them that the project was rescinded.

Reynolds, who served as a personnel assistant at Fort McClellan in Alabama during the Vietnam War and has three family members serving in Iraq, said she "blew up" last Friday when her grandson brought home a letter informing parents about the campaign, in which students were to write a letter every day for 12 days.

Letters were to go to other students, the state's U.S. senators and representatives, President Bush, and the secretary of the United Nations urging them to "join our press for peace." If the war were not over in 12 days, the sequence would be repeated.

Reynolds said her grandson was upset by the assignment. "He knows he's got an uncle and cousins over there."

Notice one of the teacher's motivations:

'We saw peace as a common good,' Fitzpatrick said. 'We were just advocating that people keep working toward peace.'

Yep, the only "peace" we would get from fools like Fitzpatrick is the peace of the grave. Every time one of these peaceniks bleats on about "peace" what they really advocate is the defeat of the United States in the face of our enemies. How many times in history have we seen this stupidity? And they keep trotting it out!