Fox guest on classroom fairness: Exclude kids who don’t deserve a ‘pity Valentine’ | The Raw Story

“Valentine’s Day is about expressing your unique heartfelt feelings for your special loved one,”

Uhm, hello!! McFly!! They are 5 years old. Political correctness? Since when is being empathetic, showing compassion, and being fair a bad thing? Oh wait I get it, you want to train up more Reich wingers, cruel and heartless automatons for the future.

Apparently this woman does not understand the value of giving joy to others and is a perfect example of the dangers of an ideology steeped in religious fervor. You would think she would have learned that lesson based on her background:

"I grew up inside a homegrown Christan fundamentalist church–which is a nice way of saying I’ve been classically trained in Bible Trivia and stockpiling for the Apocalypse. I left that church 10 years ago. I still can’t go to church without needing to call my therapist afterwards. But I won’t let go of faith entirely–especially since experiencing a small glimpse of the unconditional love of God,,, On December 2, 2011, I was a guest on Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show. I shared my first-hand experiences with the abusive “child-training” methods of Michael Pearl."

I guess the broader question here is why on earth is this being treated as a serious news story with opposing experts?

A Fox News guest on Thursday asserted that some children should be excluded when Valentine’s Day cards are given out at school so that they can learn that the world isn’t fair while the “stakes are low.”

For years, many teachers have asked grade-school students to bring Valentine’s Day cards for everyone in the class if they bring them to school. But when one New Jersey teacher sent a note home this year explaining the policy, Fox News hosted a segment suggesting that political correctness was running amuck.

“Valentine’s Day is about expressing your unique heartfelt feelings for your special loved one,” blogger Elizabeth Esther told Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. “To just robotically hand out, ‘Here’s your Valentine, here’s your Valentine.’ Like, what are we? It totally removes the meaning, the special memory for the kids.”

Fox guest on classroom fairness: Exclude kids who don’t deserve a ‘pity Valentine’ | The Raw Story