letter to preznit from 13 year old "educatwed" girl

[jackster]

http://www3.capwiz.com/usatoday/bio/userletter/?id=20004&letter_id=388425236&content_dir=politicsol

"You should try harded to band abortion(from one christian to the next) This is agianst the law b/c its killing and u are killing.my parents voted for u so u better take care of our country the right way!!!"

Boy, if this is any indication of how well we've educated our children, we're all SCREWED!

[meegbear]

1. Homeskooled

[dsc]

9. In fairness

homeschooled children have won the national spelling bee for the last several years running. Often they have captured all of the final slots.

[Kraklen]

13. Yeah, but in fairness...

those spelling bee kids have all sorts of hormonal problems and delayed puberty because their parents push them so hard.

[emdee]

14. Really? LOL n/t

n/t

[Kraklen]

16. Oh, yeah.

Look at this poor crumbsnatcher.

He was trying to spell "mouse" and he ending up spelling "moose."

They kept him in a shed for three days.

[emdee]

18. Isn't that cruel? Making him hang on hooks!....

I guess he won't make that mistake again!!

LOL

emdee (using spell check)

[dsc]

15. I am not claiming that spelling is the be all and end all

after all I can't spell well myself. But I do think it is unfair to say a poor speller, like the letter writer was homeschooled when by at least one measure, homeschoolers are better spellers.

[emdee]

12. My 12-year-old homeschooler wouldn't make those mistakes. n/t

n/t

[tk2kewl]

2. You teach a child to read ...

... and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.


Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

[Seedersandleechers]

3. Certainly that was someone's idea of a joke!!

[tk2kewl]

5. ?

direct quotes from the supreme leader

[Hav]

4. For those (like me normally) who are too lazy to click...

don't miss the second part:

"2. I'm thirteen and I want a job. I need a job. I don't get a allowence and I need money for the things a girl needs. whats the difference between a 14 and a 13 yr old??? I understand for big jobs but what about working at a ice cream place or somthing I am mature and well educatwed and so are many other teens if u surf the web and go to this one page u will find millions of teens that think the same.

other than these complaints your doing a great job

Bensalem , PA"

[Wetzelbill]

6. 13? I thought it was from a 7 year old or something

Wow. We need to really teach our children how to write and spell. Taking the creativity away from a teachers and a school curriculum is definitely going to hurt us in the long run.

[wli]

7. 13 years old?

I've known 4-year-olds who write better.

[amjfv]

8. It's days like this...

That I begin to think that literacy tests weren't such a bad idea after all.

[newblewtoo]

17. Red ink

I remember sending a teacher's note back with red ink corrections. My wife was mortified, until we went to parents night. There was no attempt to correct or teach spelling. And don't get me started on the math wheel......No wonder kids cannot make change.

This was ten years ago. Private school or home schooling was not an option. We spent many hours 'correcting' grammar and teaching the multiplication tables.

Our school system was considered one of the best. I always wondered what the others were like.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Hey - wasn't that written by W's illuhgitimut daughter?

Chip off the old block!

[Kraklen]

11. I'm hereby in favor of legalizing

55th trimester abortions.

[roguevalley]

19. if she's that old and is at that level of LAZY-ASSED stupidity, then

she's going to flip burgers forever. No college for her without SERIOUS thinking and re-training.

[DemGirl7]

20. This is too funny...

First off, I'm going to admit to this message board that I'm a horrible speller, but thanks to my pocket Webster's Dictionary, no one notices. Away way, this poor 13 year old really needs a dictionary, unless her parents don't believe there usage, since it's so obvious that this kid is homeschooled, because I went to the lowest performing public school in the whole county, but at the age of 13 I knew how to spell the words "ban", "Harder" and "educated" and I could of wrote a much better letter to the president and at the age of 13 is already against abortion.