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I can’t believe a 10 year old would write an essay like this

There is a bruhaha going on in North Carolina where a ten year old supposedly wrote an essay (school project) on something they felt was important. The essay was then forwarded to Virginia Foxx, his congresswoman.

10-year-old Christian Mango was given a homework assignment to write a persuasive essay about a topic of his choosing and to send it to an official of some sort, business leader, congressman, senator, etc.

In this case, the essay was about awarding tax credits to EV owners and how that would help the environment.

Congresswoman Foxx wrote back to the child.

She said his idea to give a tax rebate to electric car owners would take money out of the pockets of ‘hardworking people’.

She added: ‘I have also linked here six articles about the disastrous record of policies enacted to address “climate change” for your perusal.’

Foxx also told Christian that the US national debt needs to be paid off by 2038, adding: ‘2038 is only 12 years away and you and your classmates will be responsible for that debt. Incidentally, please ask your teacher to explain propaganda to you.

‘While I will never be able to know, my guess is that your teachers will not give you a good educational experience and help you learn to think for yourselves, but instead will indoctrinate and brainwash you. How sad.’

While writing back directly to the child, instead of the school or the teacher was in bad form, IMO, she’s correct about the indoctrination. And most of the vitriol about this will only be a revised version of the last sentence, if it hits your feed.

That said, I’ll eat my left shoe with BBQ sauce if a 10 year old felt strongly enough about giving EV tax credits that he wrote an essay about it. I’m guessing that part of the butthurt from the mother (no word from the father, of course) is that Congresswoman Foxx dissed her essay.



5 responses to “I can’t believe a 10 year old would write an essay like this”

  1. I might go so far as to question how many 10 yos could explain what an EV is. Or a tax credit. And I don’t recall writing ESSAYS in 5th grade.

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  2. I was in a book store at the beginning of Obama, and I overhead a 10 year old boy (or thereabouts) say to his mother, “Oh look, there’s a book about Obama. That looks interesting.”

    That’s verbatim what he said, and I picked my jaw up off of the floor. What !@#$ planet was I on?

    Yes, the indoctrination is real.

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  3. That’s nothing. Back in the freaking 70’s in grade school we were shown a short film on the evils of dog racing. How they simply killed dogs that didn’t run fast enough or got too old. Stuff like that. We then were told to write a letter about how bad that was and those letters were mailed to some local politician. Back then dog tracks were legal in Texas and Louisiana and there were discussions on making it illegal. Apparently the school teachers and admin came down on the making it illegal side and drafted us kids into the fight.

    Since I was a complete little shit, I wrote the essay, got it graded, then stuffed a blank piece of paper into the envelope. Fight the system!!

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  4. Honest question, why is it bad form to write directly to the child who “wrote” to the politician? Sound like some adults in the kid’s life is using them as a prop.

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  5. Liberals always use their kids like this.

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