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klinton said:
The teacher should have anticipated this and perhaps held an in class discussion to gauge the temperment of the students before traumatizing this poor guy.



I would have figured the teacher, teaching *6th graders*, would have a fairly clear picture of his students' attitudes about the war well before issuing this letter-writing assignment.

And certainly there's no point in him making this assignment if he was going to try to direct the kids' attitudes in the letters. I mean, he can't tell them what to write in these letters. If he does, what's the point?

Questionable assignment poorly handled. And this does not mean that soldiers on the front don't deserve letters from home. But if the letters are coming from school kids, there has to be an educational goal motivating them and there has to be administrative controls in place to assure that the letters reflect more than just base epithets and criticism of a soldier doing his/her duty (irrespective of one's feelings about the war).

We all wear a green carnation.