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[mtboone]

This is disgusting.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148364,00.html

NYC Kids Send Anti-War Letters to Soldier
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
By David Andreatta


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The New York City Department of Education (search), red-faced over Brooklyn sixth-graders who slammed a GI with demoralizing anti-Iraq-war letters as part of a school assignment, will send the 20-year-old private a letter of apology Tuesday.

Deputy Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina (search), who has a nephew serving in Iraq, plans to personally contact Pfc. Rob Jacobs (search) and his family, said department spokeswoman Michele McManus Higgins.

"She knows how difficult it is to have a loved one in a war zone," Higgins said.

Jacobs is stationed 10 miles from the North Korean border and who has been told he may be headed to Iraq in the near future.

The GI got the ranting missives last month from pint-sized pen pals at JHS 51 in Park Slope.

Filled with political diatribes, the letters predict GIs will die by the tens of thousands, accuse soldiers of killing Iraqi civilians and bash President Bush.

Teacher Alex Kunhardt (search) had his students write Jacobs as part of a social-studies assignment.


He declined to comment Monday on whether he read the rants before passing them along, but said he planned to contact Jacobs soon to explain the situation.

In an accompanying letter to Jacobs, Kunhardt had written that the students "come from a variety of backgrounds and political beliefs, but unanimously support the bravery and sacrifice of American soldiers around the world."

"Support" was not the word that came to Jacobs' mind when he read the letters.

One girl wrote that she believes Jacobs is "being forced to kill innocent people" and challenged him to name an Iraqi terrorist, concluding, "I know I can't."

Another girl wrote, "I strongly feel this war is pointless," while a classmate predicted that because Bush was re-elected, "only 50 or 100 [soldiers] will survive."

A boy accused soldiers of "destroying holy places like mosques
Even one kid smitten with soldiers couldn't keep politics out of the picture, writing, "I find that many extreme liberals are disrespectful to you."

Uplifting letters from children are dear to soldiers, Jacobs said. He looks at a batch he got from a Girl Scout troop from his hometown of Middletown, N.J., whenever he feels lonely.

At the time the 21 JHS 51 letters were penned, Jacobs, who has been stationed in Korea for nearly a year, was told that he may be headed to Iraq. But no official order for deployment was given.

"If I were in Iraq and read that the youth of our nation doesn't want me to be there and doesn't believe in what I'm doing, it would mess up my head," Jacobs said.

Jacobs said he would welcome a letter from the Department of Education and the teacher.

"I want to think these letters were coached by the teacher or the parents of these children," Jacobs said in an interview from Camp Casey, Korea.

"It boggles my mind that children could think this stuff."
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Terry Boone PCF 90
Qui Nhon 68-69

[LewWaters]

Disgusting is the least of which comes to my mind, Terry

Hannity was just discussing this and as far as I'm concerned, some teacher or teachers need to be severely reprimanded. Stripped of citizenship and deported to the third world nation of the choosing comes to mind.

Like we been saying all alone, their cry of "we support the troops, but not the war," is and always has been a bunch of hogwash. Things like this just reinforces that.
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Clark County Conservative

[Rdtf]

[GM Strong]

These are some of the same people who keep crying for more taxpayer dollars to be thrown at them. More, more, more and then this is what they give in return. The NEA supports them. The people who pay them should be able to can them for this. This is a betrayal of the public trust and unprofessional as can be. We see politics injected into the class room yet God gets thrown out. They are in the same category as Ward Churchill as far as I am concerned.
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8th Army Korea 68-69

[oasis]

Hello,

More coverage..


SOLDIER STUNNED BY LETTER KIDS' RANTS

[coldwarvet]

EDUCRATS

Ward Churchill and now school sponsored treason.

This is a symptom of a much graver problem. Educrats have taken control of our class rooms from kindergarten through graduate school.

What can we do?

Option 1 we can leave our children in the public institutions and trust that the messages they hear from us and our churches will balance off the influences of the educrats.

Option 2 we can take our children out of public institutions and have them taught the ideology that is closer to our own.

Option 3 we can pull our children out of school all together and teach them at home.

Option 1 we run the risk of having our children indoctrinated with values that are in conflict with own.

Option 2 we may protect our own children. but what about the other children? As we pull our children out of the public system our voices go with them and the educrats face even less resistance.

Option 3 provides us with the most control. However, are our children equipped to deal with the wide range of personalities and belief systems as they enter adult hood?

My wife and I raised three sons; our youngest is graduating from public H.S. this spring. We have participated in all three options with our children during different stages of their development. Our oldest son is graduating from a public university this year and it has been a major battle dealing with educrats that are in conflict with his core values.

Theirs no easy short term answers, however I do believe we need to be involved. We need to have conservatives represented on our school boards. We need to encourage our children to consider teaching as a career. We need to be aware of what is being taught in the schools of our own community and call out the educrats to account for their actions. It is because we have been passive that these types of events occur.

CWV
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Defender of the honor of those in harms way keeping us out of harms way.

"Peace is our Profession"
Strategic Air Command - Motto

USAF 75-79 Security Police

[Rdtf]

The soldier's father was just on Hannity - did a fantastic job. Mr. Jacobs. He said this is 'almost giving aid and comfort.' He handled himself very well. His son isn't even in Iraq, but Korea. The letters were supposed to be holiday letters from kids. The teacher obviously read them, you could see some spelling, grammar corrections in pencil. The father said he only wants a board of ed policy change and an apology from the teacher, which I think isn't enough. Fire him.

[wwIIvetsdaughter]

Young skulls full of easily swayed mush being taught to hate America IN AMERICA!

[mtboone]

Young skulls full of easily swayed mush being taught to hate America IN AMERICA!

Look to their parents and you will see the common ground in most cases.
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Terry Boone PCF 90
Qui Nhon 68-69

[blue9t3]

This is called in your face! the poor little muslim boy and his extended family need to book a flight along with his teacher, remember what the skerroid people said about Rumy? The principal of the school needs to drop down on the sword! can you spell traitor? ,
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MOPAR-BUYER

[MLB]

This is sickening.

I don't mean to be a pessimist, but when I read crap like this I can't help but wonder if things have not slipped beyond hope in this country.
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MLB