There are a lot of dim bulbs blogging their hearts out, the conservative kind, parroting the usual fictions and talking points that the main stream media doesn’t bother to tear apart.
The question is; what parent wouldn’t want their child to take control of their lives, and government, by writing to elected officials if they have a suggestion? The conservative blogging kind, that’s who.
TMJ4: A Milwaukee teacher, Dale Weiss, asked her 3rd grade students to write the MPS board this:
Weiss: “Several weeks later, right as the bell was about to ring at the end of the school day, I casually mentioned to my students that I wanted to learn more about doing art with children since Ms. Sue [the art teacher] would not be with us next year. The students clearly were taken off guard: “But I thought if we wrote letters to the school board there would be more money for MPS and we could keep Ms. Sue.
"I want each of you to write your own letter to the school board," she described telling her class. "Think about your own thoughts, questions and feelings about the budget cuts."
It was a way to help the children cope and try to keep a favorite teacher. How evil?
“Michael and Dakota read their letters at that meeting, and they asked for more money for our school … But now I don’t think it happened. “Looking at the disappointment on their faces, I realized I had unintentionally led my students to conclude that if we believed something to be unfair and took action, the unfair situation would turn into a fair one.”
Controversial? Anything about unions? “Indoctrination?” You would be wrong if you said no to any of the choices. That’s right, wrong if you were looking at this through donut glazed eyes a conservative bloggers.
Conservative bloggers are calling for a Milwaukee teacher's job Friday after she had her third-grade students write letters to the school board asking to save the jobs of other teachers. Conservative blogger Kyle Olsen was seeing red over that article.
Olsen called it "third grade socialist indoctrination," and said Dale Weiss put her students to work for the teachers union.
Ah, I never get tired of all those paranoid ranting’s and cooked up baseless controversies chock full of Republican dogmatic word play. Olsen’s vision of one party rule is threatened by…third graders addressing their school board?
"Students are little more than political paws in their game," he wrote. "They're setting them up to do their dirty lobbying work."
I have a third grader, and it would be fun to watch him write out a two or three sentence dissertation on why he likes his teacher. He might even write about what he’s heard mom and dad talk about around the house. They’re our parental pawns doing our dirty lobbying work for those socialist indoctrinators, the teachers union.
These blathering low information bloggers don’t like seeing our kids learn how to express themselves.
Teachers' union president Bob Peterson believes Weiss' lesson was not lobbying. "Having students write a letter and expressing whatever feelings they have to a school board to a governor or the president is great," he said. "I think more people should write letters.
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