Ravenwood - 06/02/05 07:45 AM
If you have high blood pressure, you may not want to read this story by Neal Boortz. A first year sixth grade teacher, Matthew Lund, had a friend in the Marine Corp who was deployed to Iraq. As a class project, his students wrote letters to Sgt. Zach Richardson and several of the men in his unit. When Sgt. Richardson's tour was over, he wanted to visit the students and personally thank them for their letters. But it looks like school administrators would have none of that.
Lund filled out and submitted a "Resource Visitor or Guest Speaker Form" and submitted it to Principal Corbett. Lund says he never got the form back from Corbett. He says he asked the Principal about the form, and was told that she was not going to look at it.Of course the school has their side of the story too. In a written statement, the Principal said that she asked Sgt. Richardson to leave out of "regard for the safety and welfare of our children".Lund says that he realized his request to have Sgt. Richardson visit the school was going to be ignored by Ulrica Corbett. He made the decision to proceed with the plans for the visit, a visit that took place, or was to take place on May 23rd, one week before Memorial Day.
When Sgt. Richardson showed up at the Carson Middle School Lund took him to the school's media center to prepare to meet the students. At that point, according to Lund, Principal Corbett called him into the hall and told him that the Marine was not approved to be at the school. Lund told Corbett that the proper form had been submitted and had been ignored. Corbett's response was "that's your problem, not mine." Lund's version of the discussion with Corbett in the hallway suggests that Corbett harbored a great deal of hostility toward Sgt. Richardson and Matthew Lund. She told Lund that the students had not earned the visit from the Marine, and closed the discussion with Lund with the phrase "what part of what we just discussed do you not understand?" She then ordered Matthew Lund to escort Sgt. Richardson off the school campus.
But...but...it's FOR THE CHILDREN!
Posted by: Bruce at June 2, 2005 8:02 AMMy first thought was that this had to have taken place in some Socialist hell hole like Seattle, but when I clicked on the link, I was rather astonished to see that this happened in Georgia. Geez, if these bastards can get away with this in Ga, then we are doomed. The bottom line is that this Principal needs to be fired and the new Principal can have a general assembly where all the kids in the school can hear from this Marine.
So much for the idea that they support the troops and God forbid you question their patriotism.
Posted by: Yosemite Sam at June 2, 2005 8:56 AMNow I know why home schooling is becoming so popular.
Posted by: Derek Hoskins at June 2, 2005 9:23 AMWhat in the heck kind of risk does a squared-away American Marine pose to a bunch of school kids?
I just love the idiots who are resposible for shaping our next generation.
GGGRRRRRRRRR!
Seems there are self-important, moonbat agenda-oriented edukators in out public schools. Alert the media!
/sarcasm
Posted by: Steve Scudder at June 2, 2005 10:48 AMI guess we know why Corbet is an administrater; she is obviously NOT qualified to be a teacher.
Posted by: Robert Garrard at June 2, 2005 11:16 AMI agree with Corbet in the sense that the "saftey and welfare" of the students should be of paramount consideration. In that light I would offer that the students welfare is plainly in jeopardy by daily exposure to such myopic administrative jackasses.
Posted by: Gosshawk at June 2, 2005 11:35 AMYou know the saying : "Those who can't teach become head of the school department"
Posted by: CeceliaC at June 3, 2005 1:57 AMLet's just hope the school's superintendent has an ad for School Principal on Monster.com right now.
You cannot protect kids by doing idiotic things like this. No wonder we are currently freaked-out whenever one kid gives another a Tylenol. Our collective perception of what actually poses a threat has become awfully warped in recent years.
School administrators like Corbett are one of the primary reasons for this skewed perspective. In my opinion, people like Corbett pose a far bigger threat to the kids than any uniformed Marine.
Posted by: roger at June 3, 2005 6:22 AMIt doesn't have to make a profit so it never has to change to actually function.
Intra-system goals come first until bankruptcy stops it, but only if bankruptcy is a possibility.
I find it ironic that one government-controlled entity would have animosity toward another government-controlled entity specifically on account of the fact that it is being used by the government.
Think about that for a moment. The school systems (government entity) are opposing the military almost on a daily basis now. It's laugable really.
Posted by: Publius II at June 3, 2005 3:04 PMWhy sont you people shut the fuck up and find some rainforest trees to save -- ever been to greene county -- not just the posh Reynolds and Ritz Carlton -- fuck all you
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