All 7th graders REQUIRED to write letter to Bush!

[Quakerfriend]

Yesterday, my son came home and announced that the teachers made everyone in the entire 7th gr class of the Colonial Middle School in Montco. PA (~700 kids) write a letter to *co.

They would not tell the kids why they were to do this.

My son said that after about 30 seconds the kids all began to say "but, why do we have to...we don't even like him." As my son reports, they were told to "kiss up" to him and not write anything negative. One little girl (bless her heart) began railing about the DSM and the "illegal" war!! You go kid!

My son wrote about wanting to see more hybrid cars on the market and "no more war for oil".

This is considered to be a fairly 'red' district, too.

[ZombieNixon]

1. Oh, what I wouldn't give to be a seventh grader just about now!

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[phantom power]

2. I think it's good to make them write letters.

They should have the students ask the Prez a question. That way, they can be polite without "kissing up."

[noahmijo]

15. "Mr President if you attended my school you'd be riding the short bus"

Awww come on I already saw the principal this morning over that incident with Milton! :P

[SeanQuinn]

3. Thank god we eighth graders don't have to do this over here in red FL.

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[DBoon]

4. We had to do that in 7th grade as a writing assignment

I remember writing a letter to Spiro Agnew that the teacher did not appreciate :evilgrin:

I've heard assigning a letter to a celebrity is a good way to motivate kids to write, especially when they get a reply.

[IndyOp]

5. Santorum wants props --

He requested the kiss-up letters and will be reading them aloud on TV so that people in PA will start to believe that PA loves *, and so he can ride *'s coat-tails back to the Senate.

[Hippo_Tron]

32. I'd write "Dear Mr. Santorum, I'm sorry that you are down 14 points...

I know that it is god's will to have you in the US Senate over that baby killer Bob Casey (yes I know he's pro-life), even though you don't even really live in Pennsylvania and even though you commited tax fraud. I know that people eventually accept the word of Christ, and re-elect you to the US Senate. Until then, may god continue to bless you and all of those who engage in man-on-dog, which is the same thing as consensual homosexual sex."

PS

Is it true that your name is Latin for asshole?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Great to hear some 7th graders are in tune and literate. Send Bush a DVD

Send Bush a blank DVD labelled "Make Levee Not War" or some other slogan, or labelled "Hurricane Rita Preparations".

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

7. I'd probably manage to get myself expelled...

LOL... ;-)

[noahmijo]

8. The letter writing aspect is not a bad one at all

but regulating what they write THAT IS WRONG.

Welcome to another step of Stalinism.

[MaineDem]

12. Those are my thoughts, too

Kids don't write enough letters so the practice is good. But telling them that the letters have to be positive is wrong on so many levels.

[FreedomAngel82]

40. I agree

I would tell the kids to write what they feel as long as it wasn't anything with cursing etc. Still be respectful so you don't get in trouble. Heh heh.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. "Dear President Gore,"

[Larkspur]

14. Oh, what a naughter kid you are!!

:sarcasm:

Don't forget to tell President Gore that his Sierra Summit speech was excellent and you look forward to his feature-long documentary coming out in December of this year.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. "Why did you decide to dress up like a monkey after you won the election?"

"My mom says it's because a real monkey actually became president but we learned in government class that elections can't work that way. The winner gets to be president.
"Is someone making you wear the monkey suit?
"Is the monkey suit making you do silly things? Aren't there enough airholes in the monkey suit? My dad says if you don't have enough air you pass out and fall down. Why do you fall down so much?

"Finally President Gore, thank you for what you have done for education. I was in the 2nd grade when you were elected and I haven't had to learn too much new since then because there is no money."

[FreedomAngel82]

41. And also

how the UN stud and loved him. ;) Those darn guys!

[Polethebear]

20. Good One!!!

[rocktivity]

10. Hmmm...is Bush due to visit your part of PA in the near future?

If the letter writing was a class assigment, it wouldn't bother me per se. But why did the entire the seventh grade have to do it, and why was it mandatory to be positive? What does THAT teach? Are the letters going to be graded, and not not, what will happen to them?

I'd call the school in the morning and ask if I were you.

:shrug:
rocknation

[bonito]

11. So he's up to 7th grade reading level now?

[sweetladybug]

17. I don't believe Bush is up to 7th grade reading level yet. The last

I heard is he's only on kindergarden reading level and his favorite book is "My pet goat." If a teacher assigned my child to write to the sorry SOB AND it had to be a nice letter, I believe I'd be butting heads with a teacher. (I would have this teacher's job)

[Polethebear]

22. You all beat me to it!

I was visualizing Karl Rove pointing to a chalkboard,saying "Now George,pay attention".

[marbuc]

13. We had to do this also

when I was in the 7th grade. The project was a response to "The Day After." One kid had his letter published in the local paper.

[noahmijo]

16. "Mr. Bush if you attended my school you'd be riding the short bus!"

Awww come on I already saw the principal this morning over that incident with Milton! :P

[Vinca]

18. I would have called the teacher and told them I didn't

appreciate my kid being given an assignment that required the use of profanity!

[Inland]

21. Your son and his teacher did the right thing.

I don't mind a writing lesson of a letter to Bush, and it stimulated your son to write about something of importance to him.

The fact the kids "don't like Bush" is neither here nor there. Let them put a few complaints in the letter. Or write about what they did on THEIR summer vacation, for a subtle jab, for all it matters.

[Quakerfriend]

24. You're right. It got my back up a bit!

REQUIRED, and then told to KISS UP. Why not just tell the kids to write a letter, period.

[kath]

34. yeah, how about a Letter to the Editor about something they care about,

or a letter to an author, etc. They definitely should have some choice in the matter.

Another reason (around #493) that I'm glad my kids don't go to school. This kind of stuff would drive me absolutely batshit crazy. Since I'm already going berserk after 56 mos. of Buschco (especially the past 3 weeks), I'd have gone over the edge by now. :-)

[BlueStateGirl]

23. Hello fellow Montco resident!!! n/t

[Quakerfriend]

26. Hey, BS Girl!!

Nice to meet you sister!:hi:

[damntexdem]

25. I hope they tore him a new asshole.

Although on him, that WOULD be redundant.

[spuddonna]

27. That's insane...

They were told to 'kiss up'? geez...

I'm glad your son wrote about the Oil Wars. :)

[CoffeeCat]

28. I guess I'm a real trouble maker, because I would NOT allow...

...my child to write this letter--if he or she did not want to "kiss up" to the pResident.

I would flat out tell the teacher, "My daughter does not like *. She does not wish to "kiss up" to the man. She will complete the assignment and write the letter, but she will write her own thoughts, her own words and her own opinions!"

This assignment is really disturbing. What are they teaching our children...not only to shut up and sit down when you disagree with leaders--but also--you must "kiss up" to them, even when you don't agree! What is this...some kind of lesson in fascism????

Maybe the teacher has a reason for telling them to write positive letters. I don't know.

However, telling our children to praise a man that they clearly can see is a worthless, lying, corrupt piece of poo---is teaching them to be unpatriotic and unAmerican. This flies in the face of democracy. This is the kind of assignment the little kids in North Korea are forced to complete!

NO WAY would I be going along with this!

[deadparrot]

29. My second-grade class wrote to Clinton.

That would've been the 1994-95 school year.

Aw, memories...:D

[Hippo_Tron]

30. I faintly remember my dad taking me into the voting booth with him in 1992

I was 4 at the time. With my future in mind, my dad voted for the right guy (although he's been voting Dem since McGovern, so I don't think that there was much question).

[Cha]

31. I would have been farking raging

LIVID~ :grr: :mad:

They would hear from me..teacher and principle.

Fuck bush and his destroying of America, you stupid teacher(?)!!

[ISUGRADIA]

33. Complain to the school board and principal

the assisgment is legitamate but the being told to "kiss up" is very imp[roper on the teacher's part.

[Wizard777]

35. This is a common practice. It's been going on for decades.

It is to teach the kids how properly interact with our Government and it's officials. How ever considering the atrocity that is President Bush. I think it is a disservice to the Children to conduct this lesson as Kiss Ass 101. Any educator that would teach mindless subservience to the future sovereigns of America should have their teaching credential revoked. They obviously don't have a firm grasp on the constitution. They should have to take continuing education courses on the Constitution. Concentrating on where the true power of America rests. At least until they kick in the door to the Oval Office to ask Bush what his fucking problem is. Others can kick in doors to congressional offices demanding to know why the idiot hasn't been impeached yet. Then they can regain their accreditation.

Face facts. It's past time for even the children to take the kid gloves off with Bush. Bush has already spent their money and is now spending their children's money. They have all right to ask him the hard questions and demand answers.

[AzDar]

36. Woe be to the teacher who would instruct my 9-year-old son

to "not be negative". He stood up in class last year and recited part of a John Kerry campaign ad, ("The future doesn't belong to fear....")that I had no idea he KNEW. He hates Bush, and will not hesitate to be vocal about it; I usually don't know if I should be amused or mortified about this..came home a few months back to find him debating his Grandma (pro-Shrub and Mormon)about the Non-Christian aspect of the illegal war in Iraq.He was kickin' some right-wing butt, I gotta tell ya...I always caution him about the old 'religion and politics' adage, but he really has a mind of his own (LOVE that!).

[AntiCoup2K4]

37. I spent half of Jr High school in the Vice Principal's office anyway....

...at least in this case it would be for something I actually did

Dear pResident Bush,

Why are you such a lying, criminal, malignant piece of shit?

Short and to the point. If it was one of those "minimum of 1000 words" deals, I could expand on it :evilgrin:

Then again, Jimmy Carter was President when I was in 7th grade. That might not have been so bad.

[orleans]

38. If they "have" to write a letter then the kids should be allowed

(even encouraged) to be HONEST and express their personal opinion!!!

you can be honest while still being fairly polite but this teacher told the kids to "kiss up" and not write anything negative???

i'd be going to see the principle tomorrow--and make sure this shit gets put on this teacher's permanent record.

the assignment needs to be changed immediately (and a letter of apology needs to be sent home, explaining why the kids were told to "kiss up" and not write anything negative)

[FreedomAngel82]

39. Wow

Smart kids! They're indie thinkers. They're only seventh graders and the little girl knew about the DSM!

[expatriot]

42. What percentage of the general population even knows what the DSM is?

That is one very-aware seventh grader. If I was in seventh grade right now I wouldn't have a clue. When I was in seventh grade, I was licking at the chops for Desert Storm because I thought the World War Two documentaries on A&E were so damn cool and I loved studying the military atlases, I couldn't wait for another huge tank war in the desert. I was actually UPSET when the land phase was over so quickly, I wanted to be like those guys in World War II that would have a map of Europe set up on a table and keep track of where the front lines were according to the radio reports. I was clueless and I didn't get a clue until a year after high school.

[ladylibertee]

43. I think you should voice your concerns to the school district. Tell

them you do not appreciate precious learning time being "stolen" from your child's education because the teacher or school wants to push some political propaganda.Thats what I would do.