S-T-R-E-S-S in kindergarten !

Odd little stories like this tend to make me less sympathetic

    to teacher unions .I recall Leon Trotsky in his auto-biography " My

    Life "observing that the teaching profession attracts an inordinate

    number of " freaks ". For too many pupils they are still the soul

    destroying oppressors of youth. Unions protect these " freaks " !

        The odd little story: My six year old niece Kate came home crying

    from the Budlong  Elementary School in Cranston. The area is fairly

    affluent, so one would expect that finding half decent teachers is no

    big problem.

       Why was Kate crying ?  Apparently she failed to grasp some fundamental

    principle of ECOLOGY ! Political Correctness ,it seems, demands that

    kindergarten pupils  grasp abstruse " environmental " relationships

    even if- like my very normal and lovable Kate - they would rather be

    " studying " the wonderful land of Oz with its wizard and munchkins

    and poor Dorothy and the tin man, and the cowardly lion and the wicked

    witch .

        Kate was retarded and IMAGINATIVE enough to draw a tree coming out

    of the sea. The teacher, I hear, marked it with an X !  I guess some

    kids just don't get it, the teacher must of told herself.

        You would think that kindergarten teacher - even if unfit for the

    job -would at least be KIND !

        My nephew might call her ( I do not approve ) a " tree hugging  hippie "

       Has  this old maid of fifty ever hugged a child ?