A letter
from a 3rd grade teacher sent home to Pagan parents:
By: Ld
Obyron Irondrake, 8/18/99
Posted:
March, 24th, 2002
Website:
Unknown
Dear Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas, I write this letter in concern of your daughter, Aradia Moon.
Please don't take this the wrong way, however, although she is a straight A
student and a very bright child, she has some strange habits that I feel we
should address.
Every morning
before class, she insists on walking around the classroom with her pencil held
in the air. She says she is "drawing down the moon." I told her Art
Class is in an hour and to please refrain from then to do any drawing.
And
speaking of Art Class, whenever she draws a night sky, she insists on drawling
little circles around all the stars and people dancing on the ground. And that
brings up dancing, I had to stop her twice for taking off her clothes during a
game of Ring Around the Rosey! By the way, what does the term
"skyclad" mean?
Aradia has
no problem with making friends. I always find her sitting outside during recess
with her friends sitting around her in a circle. She likes to share her juice
and cookies. It is nice how she wants no one to ever thirst or hunger. However,
when I walked over to see what they were doing, she jumped up and told me to
stop, pulled out a little plastic knife and started waving it in front of me. I
thought this was a bit dangerous, so I took her to the Principal's Office. She
explained to the Principal that she was "opening the Circle" to let
me in. She also said that her Mommy and Daddy always told her not to play or
run with an "athame" in her hand, that she could put someone's eye
out. I don't know what an "athame" is, but I am glad that she keeps
it at home.
As for
stories, your daughter tends to make up some whoppers. Just yesterday while I
was talking sternly to Tommy Johnson and shaking my finger at him, he started
screaming and ran from the room. When I finally caught him, he told me that
Aradia told him and the rest of the class that the last time I shook my finger
at someone, they caught the chicken pox. I explained to him that the Sally
Jones incident was just a coincidence, and that things like that don't really
happen.
One of the
strangest things that happened was when I asked the children to bring in
Halloween decorations for the classroom. Aradia brought in salt, incense and
her family album. I see she has quite a sense of humor. One of Aradia's worst
habits is that she is very argumentative. We were discussing what the Golden
Rule was (Do Unto others as you would have them Do Unto You), she firmly
disagreed with me and stated it was "Do As You Will, but Harm None"
and she will not stop saying "So Mote It Be" after she reads aloud in
class. I tried to correct her on these matters and she got very angry. She
pointed her finger at me and mumbled something under her breath.
In closing,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, I would like to set up a parent/teacher conference with
you sometime next week to discuss these matters. I would like to see you
sooner, but I have developed an irritating rash that I am quite worried about.
With Deep
Concerns,
Mrs.
Livingston
P.S.
Blessed Be. I understand that this is a greeting or closing from your country
that your daughter informs me is polite and correct