MPS teacher makes students write letters to school board
Conservative bloggers are calling for a Milwaukee teacher's job Friday after she had her third-grade students write letters to the school board asking to save the jobs of other teachers.
In an article for the magazine "Rethinking Schools" Fratney teacher Dale Weiss explained how she assigned her students to write a letter to the MPS board opposing a cut in the number of teachers.
"I want each of you to write your own letter to the school board," she described telling her class. "Think about your own thoughts, questions and feelings about the budget cuts."
Conservative blogger Kyle Olsen was seeing red over that article.
On the website biggovernment.com, Olson called it "third
