FOXNews.com - Views - Tongue Tied - Rescuing Firefighters' Prayer, Bird-Brained Bus-Bashing

FOXNews.com - Views - Tongue Tied - Rescuing Firefighters' Prayer, Bird-Brained Bus-Bashing:
Even more abuse of teaching prilidges, this time it was caught.

"Reading, Writing and Tired Hippie Politics

Teachers in Madison, Wis., had their third-graders composing and mailing letters urging a halt to the war in Iraq as part of a civics lesson — until school administrators stepped in and put a stop to it, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.

Julie Fitzpatrick, one of the 10 teachers at Allis Elementary School that dreamed up the project, said the assignment was intended to demonstrate 'citizen action,' a standard part of the district's social studies curriculum.

'We saw peace as a common good,' Fitzpatrick said. 'We were just advocating that people keep working toward peace.'

But following complaints from some parents, school officials pointed out that even in Madison teachers are discouraged from 'exploiting the institutional privileges of their professional positions to promote candidates or parties and activities.'"

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - PETA Tells Kids to Run From Daddy

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - PETA Tells Kids to Run From Daddy:

"The handout, titled 'Your Daddy Kills Animals,' features a grinning lunatic gutting a fish, and warns kids to keep their puppies and kittens away from Dad because he's 'hooked on killing.'"

I have said it before and I will say it again. One of those wacko PETA nutcases gets near my children and starts this stuff I will sue. They try to justify it by saying that the kids see worse on Saturday morning cartoons! My kids do not.