To: wesagain
A first-grader at the school was told that she had to remove references to God in a poem she wrote to honor her grandfathers service to our country during the Vietnam War, the letter said. In her poem, she had included the lines He prayed to God for peace, he prayed to God for strength, to describe the historical actions of her grandfathers during the war. However, after a community member complained about the inclusion of the students poem in a Veterans Day Ceremony, the school forced her to remove the lines.Jane Fonda? Is that you?
Didn't the character Syme in Orwell's 1984 have a similar problem, lamenting how few state-approved rhymes there were which could be used to substitute for the state-sanctioned "God" in their bowlderized versions of classic poems?
Regards,
6 posted on
12/04/2012 8:20:54 AM PST by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: alexander_busek; Morgana
a conservative majority can’t get the smut out of the curriculum but one “community member” gets a heckler’s veto of a little childs speech?
does this make any sense??
18 posted on
12/04/2012 9:43:59 AM PST by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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