Everyone,

Some housekeeping details.  I promised to get back to the site with the URL for the website where the teacher got the positions of the candidates to read to my son's class.

I can only offer my apologies.  The teacher got back to me regarding the website, and said that he could not find the original one that he used, but found a similar one run by the League of Women voters.  What is similar about this is, like he stressed in the meeting about the original website, the things he read were the words of the candidates themselves about the issues.

http://www.capwiz.com/c-span/e4/dnet/?gridid=57361&issueid=

This is the best I can do, as the teacher did not anticipate needing to produce the URL again beyond what was supposed to have been a simple exercise to get students to think about the issues rather than the personalities of the candidates.

For those of you concerned that the children in this classroom are being indoctrinated by a left-wing nut case, maybe it will help to hear that class discussion surrounding the CBS documents concluded in the general sentiment that the truthfullness of the sources and reliability of the documents should have been checked, and not been believed simply because they said what some people wanted them to say.

Further, my 11-year-old was unabashedly partisan (in favor of Kerry) at the beginning of this unit, and was surprised to admit that there were issues where he agreed with Bush and disagreed with Kerry...so it has opened his mind somewhat as well.

Which is supposed to be the goal of education, and which was the thrust of my ironical tone in the original post:

http://www.anomalousdata.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=8814d74d-5eb4-4f65-88a4-3efbf58e59f1

That some parents seemed to be disturbed by the idea that their kids could have voted for John Kerry, and that they were visably relieved that they could dismiss it as just one poll in an election process.