November 9, 2009

Dear President Barack Obama,

We are writing to alert you to a gross and unconscionable violation of our American school children resulting from our government failing to protect them from school abuse under the 14th amendment of the Constitution, its “equal protection clause” for ALL US citizens.

Our children are being subjected to violent discipline practices by teachers and administrators which are universally condemned by recognized leaders in the fields of pedagogy and psychology.

It is a widespread problem and those with authority to correct it pretend to be unaware.

The U S is the only Western industrialized democracy that sanctions school abuse.

It is one of the causes of the high drop-out rate that afflicts our schools in paddling states. It promotes violence by modeling violence. It signals its users' incompetence.

Here are other alarming facts about this matter: The reported number of American school beatings in school years prior to your election has hovered around 250,000. Since your election in fall 2008, school year 2008-09 ended with a report of 350,000 cases of school beatings and reporting is not mandatory. That places our American school system in a “state of emergency!”

This single ASTRONOMICAL jump of 100,000 reports in one school year is unprecedented by any other school year in American history.
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