On the heels of seeing a Connecticut school worksheet informing children "Americans don't have the right to bear arms," we now see another example of the nation's children being indoctrinated into the anti-Second Amendment ideology.
Florida father Aaron Harvey is furious after he found a crayon-written letter from his fourth-grade son after a lesson in school about the Constitution, which read "I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure."
Via TheBlaze:
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.
The father, Harvey, is a veteran, swore an oath as all military members do, which says " I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United States against all
enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same," and he is furious over what his son was instructed to write by his teacher.
He continues on to say "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. Now whenever I have someone coming in and trying to pollute my child’s mind with biased opinions…there’s no education in that."
Contact Information:
Cedar Hills Elementary
Address: 6534 Ish Brant Rd
Jacksonville, FL 32210-7051
Principal: Ms. Laverne Hamilton
Phone: (904) 573-1050
Fax: (904) 573-1051
[Update by TheBlaze:]
Update, 11:36 a.m.: Harvey told TheBlaze he received a call from the school Friday morning that featured the principal, guidance counselor and Sabb. He was told the sentence came during the lesson with the lawyer, that Sabb had nothing to do with it, and that Harvey’s son “wrote it on his own free will.”
Harvey said he had spoken to a girl in the class who specifically said Sabb handpicked students to write the sentence.“All the children are pointing at the teacher,” Harvey said Friday. “They [the school] told me that my son wrote that on his own free will — there’s now way he knew how to write that on his own free will. He likes to use some big words to flourish — [but] if he was going to put together a sentence that political I’m sure it would be more jumbled than a nice sentence like that.”
[Update] The teachers in the stories above haven't been fired, but another one was for "illicit Bible conveyance," for giving an inquisitive student a Bible.
[Update] Thanks to Ironic Surrealism for the link and head over there for Board Office contact information.