(2003-02-28) — Public school teachers in Maine were shocked to learn yesterday that most soldiers stationed near Iraq were educated in public schools. The startling revelation comes after some teachers allegedly told children that their military parents’ service is unethical.
“We’re baffled,” said one unnamed teacher. “We spent years teaching them that all war is unethical, and then they go off and enlist in the Army.”
A spokesman for the National Education Association blamed bad parenting for large numbers of public school graduates in the military.
“You can only do so much in seven hours per day, for 180 days per year for 12 years,” she said. “Apparently we often can’t overcome the influence of the parents’ ignorance and immorality.”

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