Leftist Teacher Forces State Rep’s 8-Year-Old to Harass Her Dad About School Funding
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 5:19 AM
Let the indoctrination begin…
A teacher in North Carolina pushed the daughter of a Republican State Representative to lobby and harass her dad over school funding.
Carolina Journal reported:
Freshman Republican lawmaker Mike Stone says his daughter was “used against” him when a public school teacher instructed her and her classmates to contact elected officials in opposition to budget cuts.
The result: a hand-written note imploring Stone to “put the buget (sic) higher dad” so that her school wouldn’t have to forgo field trips, be unprepared for end-of-grade tests, and lay off teachers.
“The truth of the matter is, they baited my daughter on what to write,” said Stone, who represents Lee County in the North Carolina House. “It was totally inappropriate for an 8-year old to be used as a lobbyist in Raleigh.”
The Republican-controlled General Assembly passed a $19.6-billion budget last week that restored some funding to public schools, including preserving teacher assistant jobs, but Democrats have blasted the spending plan for its cuts and implored Gov. Bev Perdue to veto it.
Lee County superintendent Jeffrey Moss said that the writing assignment at Tramway Elementary was appropriate and only directed students to write their state representative, senator, and the governor “in support of public education.”
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 36 Comments
JKB commented:
The proper response when someone inappropriately lobbies you is to choose the option they do not want. You may go the other way later but the immediate response to end this kind of foolishness is to show that it not only doesn’t work but causes the opposite of what is desired.
Trust me, I’ve used it with employees and after a time or two, suddenly, they learned that creating a crisis doesn’t get them what they want.
As for school funding, every time this occurs, the legislature should take 10% of the budget and put it into school vouchers.
KornKing commented:
How About “Dear Daddy-please spend our country beyond bancruptcy so se can be destitute nomads when we grow up”.?
Andreas K. commented:
Lay off union teachers? Good idea.
Be unprepared for end-of-grade tests? Has nothing to do with the budget, but rather with teachers and parents doing their job.
Forgo field trips? There are schools that finance those? Over here we had to pay for our field trips, and that’s a highly “socialized” school system over here.
Girl Thursday commented:
North Carolina is on the verge of bankruptcy. If it were a private sector employer, these people would’ve already lost their jobs–much less have extra money lying around for field trips. I can’t stand the self-righteous sense of entitlement most public school teachers have. It’s time for Rep. Stone to put his daughter in private school.
Valerie commented:
We all know they could have picked another topic for their persuasive writing assignment. That superintendent should be fired.
dale commented:
So thats a big surprise? Liberals using the school system to indoctrinate children into their philosophy. Man that been going on since the dept of education was formed. Read the articles on its goals at its inception and they lay it out as clear as Hitler in Mein Kamph!