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layoutshooter

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I am not sure how accurate the source is, BUT, IF this story is true it really points out how a garden slug like Obama could get elected. It also points out EXACTLY why we need to get the federal government OUT of education and put the control of schools back at the school district lever without ANY interference from the state or the feds. The parents and those who are paying the bills SHOULD have 100% control over everything that takes place in THEIR schools.

It is teaching (indoctrination) like this that leads to the People becoming subjects (slaves) of the government. Assuming this IS being taught in our schools it has to stop.



[h=1]Dad Furious After Finding This Crayon-Written Paper in Florida 4th-Grader’s Backpack: ‘I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer’[/h]

The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child's scrawl.


"I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure."


They're the words that Florida father Aaron Harvey was stunned to find his fourth-grade son had written, after a lesson in school about the Constitution.


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paperAaron Harvey's son wrote as part of a school lesson, "I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure." TheBlaze has redacted the child's name.



Harvey's son attends Cedar Hills Elementary in Jacksonville, Fla. Back in January, a local attorney came in to teach the students about the Bill of Rights. But after the attorney left, fourth-grade teacher Cheryl Sabb dictated the sentence to part of the class and had them copy it down, he said.


The paper sat unnoticed in Harvey's son's backpack for several months until last week, when his son's mother almost threw it away. The words caught her eye in the trash, and she showed it to Harvey, who said he was at a loss for words. He asked his son, who said Sabb had spoken the sentence out loud and told them to write it down. Harvey said he asked some of his son's classmates and got a similar answer.


"Everybody has their opinions," Harvey told TheBlaze. "I am strongly for proper education, for the freedom of thought so you can form your own opinion and have your own free speech in the future... [but] the education is, 'when was the Constitution drafted, when was it ratified, why did this happen, why did we choose to do this...all these things, why did they particular choose those specific rights to be in our Bill of Rights.'"


Kandra Albury, a spokeswoman for Duvall County Public Schools, which includes Cedar Hills, told TheBlaze she didn't know what prompted Sabb to have students write the sentence.


She said the principal had fielded one parent's concern about the lesson in January, but it wasn't Harvey. She said Thursday the district and principal were "checking into" what had happened.
Harvey, rather than asking the school for answers when he found the paper, wrote his concerns in an email, which was then forwarded to TheBlaze. He said he did it that way because he wasn't sure he would have gotten a straightforward answer if he asked the school directly.
He said he just wants to see a "proper, unbiased education" system and doesn't want any kind of religion or politics brought into the classroom.


"I believe in our Constitution. I am a veteran, I served for six-and-a-half years proudly and I served to protect our rights," he said. "Now whenever I have someone coming in and trying to pollute my child's mind with biased opinions...there's no education in that."


Editor's note: TheBlaze has withheld the name of the child ad the father's request.




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Dad Furious After Finding This Crayon-Written Paper in Florida 4th-Grader?s Backpack: ?I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights?to Be Safer?
 

LDB

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Typical idiot teacher koolaided through life and now a puppet of the left.

The problem with liberal leftist idiot teachers? They give the other 5% a bad name.
 

scottm4211

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Typical idiot expediter going through life with not an original thought in their little mind.
 

layoutshooter

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Nor teachers.

In this case, assuming the story is true, the teacher should be fired, THEN called a idiot. Schools should NOT be used to push agendas. They are, but that in NO way makes it right.

Also, the teacher is NOT an EO member.
 

scottm4211

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In this case, assuming the story is true, the teacher should be fired, THEN called a idiot. Schools should NOT be used to push agendas. They are, but that in NO way makes it right.

Also, the teacher is NOT an EO member.

Then call the guilty party an idiot, not the majority by prefacing with typical.
And you don't know who is or isn't an EO member.
 

layoutshooter

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Then call the guilty party an idiot, not the majority by prefacing with typical.
And you don't know who is or isn't an EO member.

I don't know about Canada, but in this country there is better than a fair to Midland chance that any given teacher IS an idiot.

Nice try, but the intent was rather obvious.
 

scottm4211

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I don't know about Canada, but in this country there is better than a fair to Midland chance that any given teacher IS an idiot.

Nice try, but the intent was rather obvious.

And I'll stand by my statement with its intent of making a point as it seems to have borne itself out. :thumbup:
 

Turtle

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In this case, assuming the story is true...
But there is no story. It's a one-sided allegation with conclusions drawn from pure assumption.

The teacher may have dictated the sentence, and then said, "This is a frightening example of the way some people think, and it's how the Patriot Act got passed. You should remember this sentence forever as the way not to be."

You don't know.
 

layoutshooter

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But there is no story. It's a one-sided allegation with conclusions drawn from pure assumption.

The teacher may have dictated the sentence, and then said, "This is a frightening example of the way some people think, and it's how the Patriot Act got passed. You should remember this sentence forever as the way not to be."

You don't know.

It was a news "story" that very well could have been one sided. I could not find another source for that "story". I stated that at the beginning.

It would NOT, however, surprise me if it did go down the way the story was written. I had similar problems with teachers when my kids were in school.

Just like the "documentary" that CNBC is going to air on AR 15's will likely be just ANOTHER left wing propaganda ploy to push the fledgling dictator Obama's anti-freedom agenda.
 

Turtle

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It was a news "story" that very well could have been one sided. I could not find another source for that "story". I stated that at the beginning.
That's because it's not a new story, it's an allegation written on a Blog to fire up the loyal choir.

It would NOT, however, surprise me if it did go down the way the story was written. I had similar problems with teachers when my kids were in school.
It won't surprise me regardless of which way it goes. I'd like to find out which way it is before I've decided which way it is, though.

Just like the "documentary" that CNBC is going to air on AR 15's will likely be just ANOTHER left wing propaganda ploy to push the fledgling dictator Obama's anti-freedom agenda.
Yeah, Obama is and always has been behind the anti-freedom agenda.
 

layoutshooter

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It won't surprise me regardless of which way it goes. I'd like to find out which way it is before I've decided which way it is, though.


So would I but I doubt that will ever happen.

Assume for a minute it is a totally accurate accounting of what happened. Do you REALLY believe that the "main stream media" will air ANY reporting of it? I believe that they would deliberately NOT report it, or if they did, try to "spin" the story to make it more favorable to the teacher.

If left to the "Blaze" we will only hear one side and likely find it hard to verify.

I "lean" towards believing it because I have first hand experience with similar type "teaching" and teachers. I have college instructors that "taught" that way and had several "run in's" with some that taught my son's when they were in school, similar subject matter as well.
 

Turtle

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Assume for a minute it is a totally accurate accounting of what happened. Do you REALLY believe that the "main stream media" will air ANY reporting of it? I believe that they would deliberately NOT report it, or if they did, try to "spin" the story to make it more favorable to the teacher.
The MSM isn't likely to report it regardless, since it's not newsworthy. We've seen countless examples right here on EO of "news" stories from Blogs that none of the mainstream media would ever report, because it's agenda-ized rhetoric and not news. News, by definition, is newly received or noteworthy information about recent or important events. What a teacher has students write down in class, regardless of what it might say, isn't particularly noteworthy or important in the grand picture of society.

There are five factors in determining whether or not a story is newsworthy, versus a special interest piece.

1 - Timing
Since news is all about new, topics which are current are good news. Consumers of news are used to receiving the latest updates, and there is so much news out there, that old news is quickly discarded. A story with only average interest needs to be told quickly if it is to be told at all. If it happened today, it's news. If the same thing happened last week, it's no longer interesting.

2 - Significance
The number of people affected by the story is important. A plane crash in which hundreds of people died is more significant than a crash killing a dozen. What one teacher does in a classroom is likely to be even less significant.

3 - Proximity
Stories which happen near to us have more significance. The closer the story to home, the more newsworthy it is.

4 - Prominence
Famous people get more coverage just because they are famous. If you break your arm it won't make the news, but if the Queen of England breaks her arm it's big news. Some unknown teacher in an elementary school that no one has heard of isn't very prominent.

5 - Human Interest
Human interest stories are a bit of a special case. They often disregard the main rules of newsworthiness; for example, they don't date as quickly, they need not affect a large number of people, and it may not matter where in the world the story takes place. Human interest stories appeal to emotion. They aim to evoke responses such as amusement or sadness. Children and puppies are often Human Interest fodder. Television news programs often place a humorous or quirky story at the end of the show to finish on a feel-good note. Newspapers often have a dedicated area for offbeat or interesting items. At best, an elementary school teacher's curriculum might make it into the "Oddly Enough" column of a newspaper.

So, to sum it up, it's old news already, it has no significance with respect to the number of Americans who are directly affected, it's proximity is Florida about which no one cares, no prominent figures figured into the story, and human interest in the story is to rile up for no reason those with a predetermined political bent to cater to a special interest niche.

Ergo, not news which is even remotely newsworthy enough to be reported by any self-respecting news organization, mainsteam media included.
 
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