SOLDIER STUNNED BY LETTER KIDS’ RANTS

Imagine this: You’re a young soldier, thousands of miles from home in a foreign land, charged with the duties your country has asked you to perform. Being young, you’re uncertain of your mission, but being a US soldier, you unflinchingly carry out the orders of your leaders.

Now comes a care package from a group of students back home. Nothing is a better morale builder than words of support from the very people you dedicate your life to protect.

This particular package is soured, though. Anti-War, Anti-Troops, Anti-American sentiment, dictated to children who have no idea the harm their words can do, is sprinkled amongst the well-wishing letters of their classmates.

Pfc. Rob Jacobs of New Jersey said he was initially ecstatic to get a package of letters from sixth-graders at JHS 51 in Park Slope last month at his base 10 miles from the North Korea border.

That changed when he opened the envelope and found missives strewn with politically charged rhetoric, vicious accusations and demoralizing predictions that only a handful of soldiers would leave the Iraq war alive.

Surely, though, adult supervision would have responsibly stepped in and kept angry, political rhetoric from being superimposed on this well intentioned gesture, right?

Maybe not. The teacher is in hiding, and the principal is spouting a politically correct cover story:

The JHS 51 teacher, Alex Kunhardt, did not return phone calls, but the school principal, Xavier Costello, responded with a statement:

“While we would never censor anything that our children write, we sincerely apologize for forwarding letters that were in any way inappropriate to Pfc. Jacobs. This assignment was not intended to be insensitive, but to be supportive of the men and women in service to our nation.”

Yes, “educators”, be proud. You have not only fouled the minds of these young people, you have also stabbed a young soldier in the heart. I wonder how you can sleep at night.

I can think of no better justification for removing the likes of Ward Churchill from our public education system.