Peace Puppets
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kids a great disservice. They’re turning them into
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little peace puppets. One of the schools academics are set aside for
physical activities like yoga. And at a private K-5 school with 115 students,
the curriculum focuses largely on issues of social justice. This year’s theme
at the school is peace. What ever happened to the three R’s?
Some of these kids can’t spell their own names, but they’ll spout off “Bush is a bully.” They don’t know whether the President of Iraq is a boy or a girl, but they think the war is about “other things, like Bush wanting land.”
Skyler Johnson, 5, hadn’t learned much about the conflict in Iraq. When he was asked who is the President of Iraq, he shrugged his shoulders and said, “My mom might know.” After she came over and gave him a little coaching, he was able to muster, “We don’t want war. Oil kills lots of people.”
Maybe David
Kupelian is right when he says Christians don’t belong in government schools?
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